Looking for genealogist to hire

[Sal86]

Hi I am looking for a genealogist to hire at a reasonable price. My family are mainly from Derbyshire. I have completed vast amounts of research myself already. In fact over 400 entries on my tree. I have some stones unturned and some mysteries too. I would also like to find the missing gaps that I never knew existed with my limited knowledge and resources of genealogy. I want to find scandal! Stories of my family are more what I am interested in. Can you help at a reasonable price? I am on a budget! I have a PDF of entries to assist. Sally.

[bodger]

Sally, there are more experts on here than you will find in Yellow Pages, all for free, why not post a query or two and see what they find, if it is too personal use the PM to exchange info privately
 bodger

[skewbald]

I quite agree Bodger, so ask away with your brick walls & other obstacles Sally. You have nothing to lose, including your your money.                       Skewy

[Sal86]

Thanks folks! My big brick wall is Maud archer b.1885 Derbyshire. I cannot find her parents-looking at census it states at age of 6 she lives with uncle and aunt barker-which prompts more questions-was her mother unmarried and Maud took the name archer from the father?... Very interesting! Can anybody help? Sally

[groom]

Hi

There is no birth of a Maud Archer in Derbyshire on Freebmd   http://www.freebmd.org.uk     between 1884 and 1887.


There is this marriage which could be Maud's aunt and uncle.

Marriages Sep 1888 
ARCHER    Mary        Burton    6b   495    
BARKER    John        Burton    6b   495

If so, it looks as if Maud was illegitimate as she has the surname Archer.

[Sal86]

Thanks! I believe Maud was Alice Maud archer but known as Maud. So another question arises-if she was illegitimate, why live with her aunt uncle? Where was her mother? Sal

[groom]

There is a public tree on Ancestry that has Alice Maud Archer born 1885 Moor Lane Farm Osmaston Derbyshire with parents Daniel Archer 1850 and  Annie Tomlinson 1853. However, she seems to be with grandparents in 1891.

Remember that the census only shows where a person was on census night, it doesn't necessarily mean that she was living with them, she may just have been visiting for some reason. I found a relative with grandparents and when I found her parents there was a new baby in the family, so obviously she had been sent away while the baby was born.

I've just had a thought, Mary Baker nee Archer may have been Maud's father's sister and in that case she wouldn't have been illegitimate. 

[cati]

A possible match for Maud:

 
  Alice Maud   Archer Birth March Q 1885  Ashborne  7b 683

Cati

[groom]

Saw that one Cati, but I wonder if that is the one with parents Daniel and Annie?

There is also this one, slightly earlier

Alice Maud Archer
Date of Registration:   Jan-Feb-Mar 1882
Registration district:   Basford
Inferred County:   Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire
Volume:   7b
Page:   226