Hi there,
I am wondering if anyone can help point me in the right direction on two issues please. I would be hugely grateful for your expertise.
I am tracing back my family tree and I have managed to get back to the 1800s fairly easily but now hitting a problem with my great great great grandfather.
For my great great grandfather Richard Coates, I have found his birth certificate in 1838 which has father Thomas Coates and mother "Jane Coates, Late Roan, Formerly Boon" in St Mary De Lode Gloucester. All good.... or so I thought.
Where I am stuck is in 2 respects:
1) I cannot find the marriage certificate of Thomas Coates and Jane Boon/Jane Roan. The birth certificate of Richard states the mother's name as Jane Coates, so they should have been married.
But I cannot find the marriage certificate of Thomas Coates and either a Jane Boon or a Jane Roan. I can find Thomas Coates being born, I can find him marrying someone else in 1840, and I can find his death, but I cannot find him marrying a Jane Boon or a Jane Roan. Does anyone have any ideas why this might be? Am I doing something wrong?
2) There is a Jane Coates on the "national burial index", an entry for a Jane Coates being buried on 6th Nov 1839, at age 50, quoting her birth year at 1789, in Marshfield in Gloucestershire, taken from the Bristol and Avon Family History Society onto the National Burial Index. I expected to be able to find a GRO death certificate because the GRO provides basic details of every death recorded in England and Wales since 1837. However I cannot find a death certificate on GRO website. Does anyone have any ideas why this might be? Is there anywhere else that I can get further information?
So it looks like poor Jane died a year after giving birth to Richard Coates and this makes sense as the Census entries I can find in 1841 show Thomas the Father and Richard the son living together. By 1851 the census then show Thomas the Father and Richard the son living together with a new wife called Mary and I was able to find that marriage certificate. The missing pieces are the two elements above.
I apologise if my questions are quite basic, I would much appreciate your help
Many thanks