Tracing biological grandparents

[Rachael211]

Hi I was wondering if someone would be able to help me. I am trying to find out who my fathers parents are. My biological fathers name is Removed durkin who lived in Birkenhead and was married to a Removed Byrne. That's as much as I know. Many thanks to anyone who can help me rachael

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[kinnigit]

There's a 1973 Marriage in Birkenhead for Durkin, Byrne - Vol 10a page 128   I would start with ordering a marriage certificate.


Hope this helps.

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[solidrock]

Marriage  registration...

Michael Durkin  m  Evaline Riley. 1936 Birkenhead.

Possible birth for Evaline. 1912 Birkenhead.  mmn  Hackett.

[Cas (stallc)]

Hi, are any of these people still possibly living?

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Please do not post requests asking for help to find (possibly) living relatives or friends.
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Cas

[iolaus]

removed the names which have been removed from the OP

Theres a potential birth in the right area in 1944, mothers maiden name Riley

But really you need the marriage certificate to get the fathers name, once you have that you can see if the father on that matches the father on this


I imagine the grandparents would be Michael Durkin (20 Feb 1915 - 1990) and Eveline Riley (1909 - 1968) who married in 1936

[dawnsh]

Hi Rachael

Welcome to Rootschat 

If you haven't done so already, please take a few moments to read our guidelines for posting as we do have a 'no living people' policy here. Posts here have been edited to remove names of potentially living people in accordance with that policy.

http://www.rootschat.com/help/posting_guide.php

Rootschat isn't really a forum for reconnecting with missing family and friends but the guidelines contains links which might help.

If you're trying to build a family tree, you'll find www.freebmd.org.uk useful for searching the birth, marriage and death indexes if you don't have a sub to Ancestry or FindMyPast and www.familysearch.org also for more recent events.

[iolaus]

In fairness to the OP the title does say they are trying to trace the grandparents - so it does appear (at least to me) as if they are trying to go backwards (however hasn't clarified if the details given are of living people which is against rootchat rules)

Please don't be scared off OP