Hi smithkei
£7 route
You Say
Trying to pin down the correct GRO record so I can get the digital image to confirm address and mother and father.
" I have
1 Baptism in Sheffield 1839 from FindMyPast, George and Mary DOB 29.3.1839
2 What I believe is an incorrect GRO with DOB 30.1. 1839 to Joseph and Mary(Hunter)"
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£11 route
Apply direct from Sheffield Register Office
Thing is if you apply direct from the register office in Sheffield for £11 certificate cost ([for a cost od a bus ticket] only £4 more than the digital image)
They ask you to fill in a form in asking what you know about the birth like an address of birth place, date of birth, possible father and mothers full maiden name and if only possible names plus other questions.
Only if these questions fit will they advise you to buy a certifcate
Sheffield Register Office
Address:
Town Hall Pinstone St, Sheffield, South Yorkshire England, S1 2HH
Phone:
0114 203 9427
Website:
www.sheffield.gov.uk/registeroffice
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed
Monday
08:45 - 17:15
Tuesday
08:45 - 17:15
Wednesday
08:45 - 17:15
Thursday
08:45 - 17:15
Friday
08:45 - 16:45
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What is your ancestral link back to Thomas Moorhouse born 1839 in the Sheffield area.
The reason I ask is - if its a direct ? child of ? Thomas Moorhouse - won't that known (or if confirmed proven link) childs birth certificate have the name of its father and mother with her maiden surname on it.
If you can give Rootschat members (Plus others) above already partaking in the thread as much info you can about your link to Thomas and what info you know about him will give them something to work from with their look up vast resources - more than asking direct question with limited info.
Thanks Im an experienced researcher so I know how to get a birth certificate or copy of one. I live in Spain so visiting the registration office in Sheffield is more than a bus fare. As you know the GRO now have online digital images for 2.50 but obviously I need details of the registration and it is that I cannot find. You wanted more detail so here you go
1 Thomas Moorhouse 1839-1908 is my 2nd Great Grandfather. His daughter Charlotte ( 1866-1938) married my Great Grandfather Harry Smith in Sheffield.
2 I believe the parents of Thomas were George Moorhouse(1803-1855) and Mary Burkinshaw(1807-1841). Evidence is the baptism in Sheffield 5th May 1839 with a DOB of 29 March, parents George and Mary, and his wedding July 1882 to Abigail Raynes, father George. The GRO that many trees cite is mother Mary Ann Hunter, who married a Joseph Moorhouse not George.
3 George and Mary had other children Charles 1833-45, William 1854-35, Mary 1836, George 1841-
4 I have all his census records
1841 in Ecclesfield parish(which matches the Wadsley birth he puts on his later census), age 2 with parents and Charles and Mary
1851 family have moved to Dronfield Derbys, his father remarried, Mary age 14 , Thomas 12
1861 He is married to Mary Ann Spencer and lives in Sheffield, son George 7 months
1871 born Wadsley. George 10, Mary 6, Charlotte 4, Thomas 9 months
1881 Widower. mary Ann died 1876. Born Wadsley. Mary 16, Charlotte 14, Thomas 10, John 7
1891 He has married Abigail Raynes (July 1882) lives in Sheffield with her, some of her children and Clara aged 6 their own child
1901 Lives in Sheffield with wife, her daughter Matilda Stacey.
Died in Sheffield 22 Dec 1908 (UK Find a Grave and Q4 1908 Ecclesall Bierlow 9c 295). Aged 69
I just need his birth registration so I can be 100% sure about his mother Mary Burkinshaw. I have searched high and low with all combinations of Moorhouse and Burkinshaw.
