Finding an elusive ancestor - MAYCOCK

[Barbie55]

Is that the one on ancestry.com because I've trawled most of their stuff I THINK!!! Although I'm always turning up something new (well new to me!)

[charlotteCH]

No it is a quite separate one done all by volunteers who are really cluey about transcribing as far as I can see.  And you can look at the original images and it's all FREE.
Goggle the word  " freebmd" and it will come up. Then click on search when the site appears.

You can also put "postems" on names that might be yors and maybe someone else who is seeking the same person will get back to you.  I've had that happena couple of times.
If you can't find the site on google get back to me and I'll locate it.

charlotte

[charlotteCH]

Me again. Try

 www.freebmd.org.uk/

That url came from google.
charlotte

[Barbie55]

I'll give it a try now. Thanks

[charlotteCH]

Let us know how you get on, one way or the other.  And don't give up on freebmd as they add new transcribed  records every month or so.  the whole voluntary effort is wonderful.

charlotte

[ev]

hi barbie

does alma's death cert. give a father's name ?
seen william hewitt reeves army records on ancestry
marriage could be stirling scotland   1905
but this matches nothing on scotlandspeople (1905 lanark)
seems we are just going over what you have already found
unless this was a second marriage for alma  

ev

[Barbie55]

The death cert doesn't give her father's name. I'd thought about her being married before which is possible - but she was about 23 when she got married which doesn't seem old to me.

I have been going round in circles and the more I look the more frustrated I get. She's a real puzzle.

[millymcb]

 


Don't give up yet - she may be hiding just around the corner

I presume the date on the marriage certificate was also different to the one given on his service papers?   
 
Where did you got the name Maycock from?  I am also wondering if this was a second marriage for Alma.    Or if it is not her official name but her stepfather's or something like that..


Also - perhaps she was not officially Alma..

Have you seen an Ada Eliza Macock from Warwickshire born jan-march 1883.   
 


Milly

[Barbie55]

I can't remember whether I've seen that one or not. I'll look again anyway.

I don't have a marriage cert. just a death cert. and my grandfather's army records. Also her name's on my dad's birth cert and his sister's.

She died when my dad was 11 and he didn't really get along with his dad so didn't talk much. I've found out so much about my grandfather that it's hard to believe that his wife is such an enigma.