Where is the best place to hunt down an elusive relative?

[Sloe Gin]

I can't open it either at the moment, may be a technical or maintenance issue with the site - it was OK yesterday.  This is the full link

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~penney/

or google "colin penney sheppey".  Hopefully it'll be back up & running soon, there are lots of interesting bits & bobs on there.

[marcie dean]

There are loads of Whites around the Bournemouth area.  Definately from 1930's my mum went to school with a Margaret White and I went to school with Verley.

They seemed to favour the Royal/Merchant Navy and RAF.

I know that this does not help, but there could be connections further down the line if you are coming forward before going back in time.

marcie

[classicgirl]

Hi.
I  agree, there are a lot of Whites in the Royal Navy, and this George is on the coast, so it wouldn't suprise me to find they came along the coast in your area too.
Happy Hunting

[classicgirl]

Sloe Gin, Thanks for the link info, still out of action at the mo. However, I think you have pegged the right George White with the burial date, as I have just noted a diary ( we believe belongs to my husbands grand father) which states,"dad died on Nov 7th 1931 and was buried on the 10th!! Which seems to match with the info you found, though why the haste in burial is beyond me! was there an epidemic going on? and I am pleased that you seem to have pegged him down back in Sheerness area, when in the 1911 census he was in Oundle, Northants.

Thank you once again for your help

[lizdb]

I was just looking for George on th e1881 census, to get more of a clue about his parents etc, to try to help find his birth registration (possible scenarios such as born before marriage and registered in mothers maiden name etc)

But I havent found him - the obvious contender was Rg11 1753 50 9, an 8 yr old George White born Sheerness, with mother Jane and siblings, but going back to 1871 RG10 986 110 9 shows that her husband was James, (a tailor) not George.

What occupation does the marriage cert give for George senior?

[lizdb]

Now this other George White is on 1901 in Grays Essex (that is where that family had gone to by 1881) and is then George E White ... so it looks as if he is the one whose birth reg has already been found (George Edward White) the year before.
So it really doesnt look as if that birth reg is 'your' George.

So I wonder what name he was reg'd in, and where he is as a child?

[classicgirl]

Hi, Thanks for your reply. Yep I keep coming up against the same list of George Whites too, very frustrating.
The occupations listed on the marriage certificate states that his father, George was a painter as was the brides( Elizabeth Jane Brown )father (john brown)

His birth has got to be somewhere, so will just have to keep on looking.

Thanks for Looking too, its much appreciated 

[Sloe Gin]

That's good news that we have his death anyway.  The PRs for Minster, Sheppey (which includes Sheerness) are on one of the CD compendiums published by Kent FHS, so I would definitely post a request on the Kent board.  Someone is bound to have access to it.

[angelan]

Have you considered that some of the information on George's marriage certificate could be made up? I came across a marriage record recently for a relative's ancestor. He had an unusual name and I had found him on all census records before and after his marriage and I had also found his baptism record in Parish Records. His father was an Ag Lab on all records.

By the time he married, both of his parents had died. On the marriage certificate he gave the right name for his father, but the occupation was not Ag Lab!

If your George's father had been dead for some time, perhaps George didn't know his father's occupation and just put the same as his spouse's father.

Of course this won't help you to find him, but we can't always believe what our ancestors decided to put on certificates. We always hope that they were truthful, but I'm sure some details were not known and/or made up.

Keep on looking and good luck.
Angela