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Derrick Humphreys
« on: Wednesday 28 December 16 21:31 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone please help!! As a newbie I'm struggling to locate a birth registration for my fathers younger brother. The family have always appeared to have lived in Birkenhead.  In Ancestry it is recorded on his death record as 5/8/1929 but when I look for the birth record ten years either side of this date it is not evident. I suspect that a name change has taken place for whatever reason but I am at a loss to know where to look to locate his true surname if it has changed. I have changed the spelling of both surname and christian name and searched with just one or the other but all to no avail. Many thanks!.

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Re: Derrick Humphreys
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 28 December 16 21:36 GMT (UK) »
Hello, and welcome to RootsChat!

In case Derrick was registered elsewhere or under another forename ("Male"/used middle name, etc), what was his mother's maiden name?
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Re: Derrick Humphreys
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 28 December 16 21:38 GMT (UK) »
Hi, Maiden name was Sherlock b1881 d1957.

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Re: Derrick Humphreys
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 28 December 16 22:01 GMT (UK) »
What was her first name?  Just wondering if  Derrick had a different surname for some reason.
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Re: Derrick Humphreys
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 28 December 16 22:31 GMT (UK) »
Have you found Derrick/the rest of the family on the 1939 register?  If so, does it confirm his date of birth?
ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: Derrick Humphreys
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 28 December 16 22:44 GMT (UK) »
Are we looking at the couple Joseph Humphreys and Martha Jane Sherlock married 1901?

It seems unlikely that this pair had a child born 1929, the last child I can see registered to them in Birkenhead was born in 1919, and Martha would have been in her late 40s in 1929.

Was there an older daughter to them who might have been the mother of Derrick?
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Re: Derrick Humphreys
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 28 December 16 22:59 GMT (UK) »
Mothers forename was Martha Jane.

I don't know of a 1939 register, what is this please?

Yes, the couple that you are referring are Joseph and Martha Jane, married in 1901. I agree that it seems unlikely that they would have a child in 1929. This is the reason that I suspect that the child was not theirs but came from somewhere within the family. There were two other children Ann Jane b1904 and Thomas Cecil b1909. Whether either of these two had an illegitimate child is a possibility I suppose.The child born 1919 is my father. 

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Re: Derrick Humphreys
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 28 December 16 23:27 GMT (UK) »
The 1939 register was compiled on 29 September 1939, and was used to produce identification cards and (later) rationing cards.  It is similar to a census, and is available on Findmypast http://www.findmypast.co.uk (pay-per-view).
ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: Derrick Humphreys
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 28 December 16 23:47 GMT (UK) »
If nothing else turns up in the next couple of days, I can check the GRO adopted childrens index at the British Library next week to see if he was legally adopted into the family.
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