Site for maiden names

[mallow]

Hello is there a site listing births of children with Mothers maiden name around 1908-1914 Thank you

[avm228]

Hello

www.freebmd dot org dot uk (for some reason I can't post a link )

indexes mothers' maiden names from the Sep 1911 quarter onwards.  Other than that I don't know of any site which provides what you are seeking.

Modified to add: the data on FreeBMD is also available free at www.ancestry.co.uk

Anna

[LizzieW]

Anna

I know FreeBMD isn't complete, but I find it much easier to do a search than going onto Ancestry, or am I doing something wrong on Ancestry?  It always seems to bring up lots of obviously wrong people, rather than the possibles.

Liz

[Ruskie]

I agree Liz - freebmd is a lot easier. I usually look there first. If I find them I double check on Ancestry. If I can't find them on freebmd, then it's a trawl through the various quarters in Ancestry. I doubt you're doing anything wrong.

[mshrmh]

A few maiden names have been entered on some of the local BMD sites prior to 1911 - in most cases I've seen it seems to be very very few, though the Bath site seems to have quite a lot.
http://www.bathbmd.org.uk/index.html
and for links to other local BMD sites
http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/

As I've been recently trying to tie up a family where children were born both before & after 1911, another way of reducing the possibles is to use FreeBMD and select a registration district as well as the usual name details - as long as the family didn't move around, of course.

[avm228]

Anna

I know FreeBMD isn't complete, but I find it much easier to do a search than going onto Ancestry, or am I doing something wrong on Ancestry?  It always seems to bring up lots of obviously wrong people, rather than the possibles.

Liz

Liz, I always use FreeBMD as a first choice too - unless I happen to be on Ancestry and am too lazy to pull up another page

One thing that really annoys me about searching on the Ancestry partial index is the way it pulls up entries with matching middle names ahead of those with matching first names.  By which I mean - if I search for plain William Pierce, it gives me all the people called Arthur William Pierce, Frederick William Pierce, James William Pierce, etc, ahead of those simply called William Pierce!  If it's a common name it is just hopeless having to trawl through all the dross to get to whom you want.

Thank goodness for FreeBMD

Anna

[mahees]

I might be missing a trick on free bmd, but I find it really awkward when I'm doing a search for a marriage, for example, and it only gives you the name you're searching for and the quarter, and not the others on the page, wheras with ancestry there's a link to others on the page. Am I just missing the link on free bmd?
I never use it for that reason 
Erin 

[avm228]

Am I just missing the link on free bmd?

Yes, Erin .  Click on the page number given and it will list others on that page - exactly the same information as you get on Ancestry.

Hope that helps

Anna

[mahees]

Ah! I see!
I had just been completely missing it! 
Thanks Anna   
Erin