Constance GRABHAM nee LEE - Help?

[Georgia Mitch]

Back after quite a while away!

I've been looking in to my best friends’ tree for her and her mum & grandparents. I'm stuck on my friends’ great-grandmother, Constance Lee. I've sat down with my friends Nana and asked her a lot of questions about her mother but she doesn't know much, as she said she didn't worry about her family’s past because she was more worried about surviving in the war. Anyway, what we do know about Constance is as follows:

She was known as nana Connie.
She had no middle name
Believed to be born on the 9th of December, 1906, in Ireland possibly

She married one Cyril Horace J GRABHAM in September of 1926 in Croydon and she died in October 2002, aged 95.

She had 4 children, all of whom are alive, so I can't name them here.

We would really like to find anything more about Nana Connie and her side of the family as no one I've talked to seems to know much about her.

Oh, I've put this in the 'General' section as it would appear to involve both England and Ireland.
Cheers for any help! 
Georgia

[t mo]

hi georgia
if your friend get,s the marriage cert for cyril and connie it should give you fathers name and even sometimes witness names can help with searching .only i,ve looked in free bmd and around 1900/1915 birth reg,s there are quite a few possibles without even looking at ireland as a possible place of birth 
marriage reg ,croydon sep 1926 vol 2a p 1008

regards
trevor

[karenlee]

Hi

Since I cannot post details from 1911 here I have sent you a PM which I hope will help you in your quest.

Cheers
Karenlee

[karenlee]

Might this by your man??

British Postal Appointment Books
GRABHAM Cyril J Postman of Croydon

Cheers
Karenlee

[Georgia Mitch]

I believe that is indeed our man 

Thank you

Georgia

[Georgia Mitch]

Thanks for looking Trevor, I will be ordering a certificate shortly
regards
Georgia

[aghadowey]

The 1901 and 1911 Irish census are both online (free) and there are no reuslts for the surname Grabham.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

The Irish civil registration index is also free online (www.familysearch.org) and doesn't show a birth for Constance Grabham.

OOPS  just realised that I was searching for Constance under her married name

[Georgia Mitch]

Thanks for that,

Having looked at the 1911 census karenlee sent me, Connies sister was born in Ireland, so I think that that is where the family thinks there is an 'Irish connection'.

Thanks for the links too, will prove very helpful to me for my own family tree.

regards
Georgia