EXCELLENT! Well done Clachar. You have solved a great mystery for me!
But we must be careful. There is so much false data being spread around - and sites making money by selling us junk! If 101 people agree it means they all copied the same false info!
So what I am going to do is list EVERYTHING I Knew BEFORE you came on the scene to rescue me!
Please check ALL this against what you know BEFORE I run the risk of just "verifying" back to you facts that came from YOU!
It is the ONLY way we can be sure we have the truth.
So here goes
I know for a fact that Lilian Driver died on 26 Aug 1985. I was there.
I have her descendants if you want them.
Lilian told me she was born 14 Sept 1911 at Scotswood Road, Newcastle on Tyne and her christening was 8 Nov 1911 at Benwell District (entry 280 book 13)
She married Esdell Alfred Blanchard on 26 Aug 1936 and they lived at Caterham (then in Godstone District)
My records say (whatever yours do! and without reference to them):-
Lilian's parents were Matthew Driver (born 26 May 1884 at 6 Witfield Road, Govan, Glasgow) and Lilian Young b about May 1875 at Hartlepool or Berwick
Matthew and Lilian married on 26 Feb 1910 at St Andrews Hebburn.
Their children:-
Donald Driver b Mar 1915 Newcastle on Tyne
Sybella b Sep 1910 at Hebburn South Shields - who married Len Manning
Matthew b abt 1913 at Newcastle on Tyne - some say Feb 1913 others Sept 1913
Lilian my Mother-in-Law
It is really the exactness of the dates that prove we are talking of the same PEOPLE - not just others who had that same name!
As for ancestors, I have only these dates:-
Hugh Driver b 6 May 1858 Anderston Glasgow (whose father was also Hugh)
The birth dates I have for Hugh and Stellas's 7 children are
Hugh 1881, Matthew 1884, Archibald 1885, Jesse S 1888, Sybella 1890,
Donald 1894, Charles 1895
Let me know anything else that interests you and it will be a pleasure to help if I can!
Who was the Coldwell dau who married Donald and who are their descendants and where do you fit in (PM me if you like)
