Not mumbling on at all Wendy
Or, if you are, then I have been doing the same.Names,occupations & intuition have got me this far as it is
Yes,I am going to drop off the stuff I have found today or tomorrow & will ask the very same question.He may not know it because I think his Mum & Dad split up while he was a child & he doesn't see much of his Dad,who now lives in Sussex.
But I am going to encourage him strongly to see if those certs are already in his Father's posession,as well as chasing up any living Great Aunts, if there are any.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of information for him on the IGI,but I was going to suggest he looks at parish records for the area his family lived.I'm not much help in that department,never having been to Yorkshire.
Still, the people at the record office may be able to point him in the right direction.Though,I'm wondering if the library might be a better option?I'll tell him to look at things we can't access from here,like newspapers,old phone books etc.
Thanks for your help
Barbara