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[SallyCat]

Arranroots,  I did the Somerset thing too. It got so frustrating I ended up trawling through pages and pages just to see if some of them were born elsewhere... 

I will check out the links you have listed and see if it makes a difference.

Pinetree, if I have no success, I might take you up on that offer.    As Arnie say's  "I'll be back"!!!

Thank you all for the help   Happy hunting indeed!

[Arranroots]

Another aside: my great grandmother was definitely from Bedminster - until we found her birth in south Wales!!

Always worth considering other areas.

 

[SallyCat]

Well I'm back...

LOL Arranroots.. I have a bunch I am trying to find where it looks like the kids were born all over the country too...!

I just went back and did the same search for both Glous. and Somerset, trying to find the birth of
George Lord 20/1/1913  I have a partial birth cert, stating he was born in Bedminster.  I haven't found it yet!  I have no idea what his fathers name was, but his mother is that lovely lady in the purple dress... one Florence R Brooks - and I can't find her either...lol   My mother tells me the whole family was in the Bristol/Bedminster area. (Including George's wife Violet Davis.. )  Ahhh the fun!!! LOL

I tried looking for his siblings, Walter and Lillian, and even Lillians marriage to a Jenkins... no luck there either.
Perhaps I will have to set my net further afield...

As a further PS - I am beginning to think that this Florence Brooks is his grandmother, not mother... hmmm... *whacks family member on head who gave the details with the photo* ?

[Joburg]

Hi,
   Birth Ref.

George Lord <Bristol 6a 133 Mar.qtr.1913>

Mothers maiden name Brooks

Regards

Joburg

[SallyCat]

Oh Joburg.. just as I modified my post, there you go with the name Brooks... .THANK YOU...!!!!!

See, now I couldnt get a match at all.. the freeBMD site said no matches..... Oh I'm losing my mind........

[SallyCat]

Being desparate, I did a search just for marriages between LORD and BROOKS... only one result, and its in Bedminster... HER name is Mary Ann Brooks....... perhaps the name with the photo is wrong?  Date is about right really,  Dec Q 1897.

So I guess I need to shoot over to the look up requests and see who they are and if there are any kids by 1901...   tis worth a try I guess!

Thanks everyone for your help!

[Joburg]

Hi,
   I found the birth reg. on the GRO indexes on Ancestry.I have checked the marriages for Lord to Brooks for Bristol or Bedminster from 1912 back to 1907 inc. with No luck.

Regards

Joburg

[Geoff E]

See, now I couldnt get a match at all.. the freeBMD site said no matches..... Oh I'm losing my mind........

FreeBMD has very few births after 1910

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/progressB.shtml

Marriages are a bit better

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/progressM.shtml

Deaths ... nothing after 1911

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/progressD.shtml

[SallyCat]

Thanks for that Geoff....

By the way, when I click on those links.. it says 'cannot be found'. 

Starting to think my puters playing up.. lol !