Searching for info Martin and Dunn

[mhw]

Hi I have just started out researching my dad's side of the family tree and have very little info. I know that he was born in 1944 I believe in Rothesay. For the first 5 years he resided at 38 St Brides Road with his nan. Is it still there? His mother was Jessie Cuthill Martin b Dec 1912. She married a Thomas Williams in 1940 in Newport South Wales. Her Parents were I believe - Jessie Cuthill Dunn nee Wallace? and John Burns Martin. I think that Jessie Cuthill Dunn Died at Stable Cottage Ascog? I have little else to go on and don't know where to start.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thank You!

[Little Nell]

Hi,

Welcome to RootsChat 

This is very recent family history in RootsChat terms and we try to be a little bit more circumspect when dealing with events less than 100 years ago.  Your first task should be to talk to older relatives and ask them what they know or remember.  Make notes and see if you can make sense of it!  Then you can get down to verifying it.

First of all, have you read the information about searching in Scotland here:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,24468.0.html

The website to look at is this one:

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

for Scottish indexes, certificates and census.  You can view (for a fee) the contents of the certificates online up to certain dates (births up to 1908, marriages to 1933 and deaths up to 1958), otherwise it is just the index.  Have a look at all the advice on that site and here on RootsChat about searching the site and how to get the best out of it without wasting your money:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,43916.0.html

Scottish certificates can be very useful since they provide an awful lot of information, see here for an explanation:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,106234.0.html

If you can get back to someone who was alive at the time of the last census which is available to search - in Scotland's case 1901 - then the options begin to open up.  If you get stuck, do ask for help again.

Your grandmother's marriage certificate is not available in Scotland, you would have to order that from the GRO in England and it would only name her father.

Nell