Who lived at Bernardette.?

[TheOnlyRogueAngel]

My great-grandparents were registered on the 1939 Directory as living at 'Bernardette', Rossmore Road, Parkstone, Poole, Dorset. They would have had 5 children.

Is there anyway I can confirm that address from other sources.?

I ask because they were registered as living at 34 Malvern Road, Moordown, Bournemouth in July of 1928, and didn't. The resident at that address from 1926-1929 was named John Head.

[CaroleW]

Was it just the name of the house?

[Milliepede]

What occupation did great grandfather have? 

Perhaps he appears in a trade directory with an address.

Could they have been lodging with John Head at his address 

[Milliepede]

They would have had 5 children.

If any of them were born in the years you are suspicious about you could get birth certificate(s) and see what address is on there.

[suzard]

I ask because they were registered as living at 34 Malvern Road, Moordown, Bournemouth in July of 1928, and didn't. The resident at that address from 1926-1929 was named John Head.

which register showed them living at 34 Malvern Rd??

there is a John Head (occ Farmer) at 22 Malvern Rd in 1911

Suz

[BumbleB]

Of the 7 people shown on the 1939 register, one of the children has since died, and therefore the name appears.  Looking on FreeBMD for that name, the birth was registered in the Poole Registration District in 1933.

Milliepede - occupation was Electrician.

[TheOnlyRogueAngel]

@CaroleW

Yes, the house was named Bernardette, there doesn't appear to have been a number and I can't find it on historic maps of the road.

[TheOnlyRogueAngel]

@milliepede

I think he was an electrician, something that was mentioned a few years ago, in passing.

The house they said they lived at is a small two bedroom, and John Head was married by 1928, when they registered as living there.

[TheOnlyRogueAngel]

@Suzard

The address is on my grandfather's birth certificate, first in the column with his birth date, and secondly in the column with his father's name. Which isn't John Head.

According to Kelly's Directory, John Head lived at 34 Malvern Road from 1926-1929.