Questions tagged [england]
For questions about ancestors and records in the country of England. Also tag the county if the question is specific to that county.
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Did my potential ancestor lie about his wife dying so that he could marry again?
I am researching my 2x great-grandmother. Her life has been quite the mystery.
Ann Norah O'Brien
Birth ABT 1860 • England
Death 16 JAN 1923 • Exeter, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
She married ...
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Ancestor born in Bristol City workhouse?
My 2x great-grandmother's life has been quite a mystery.
Ann Norah O'Brien
Birth ABT 1860 • England
Death 16 JAN 1923 • Exeter, Devonshire, England, United Kingdom
She went by the name Norah O'...
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Where can I find more detailed prison records - Stroud, England?
My great-grandmother was an illegitimate child and it's not clear if the man her mother later married is her father or not.
Winifred Lyida O'Brien
BIRTH 30 OCT 1896 • Stroud, Gloucestershire, ...
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Why is my ancestor missing from the New GRO Index - England?
I found my 2x great-grandmother on the 1901 and 1911 censuses.
Norah O'Brien
Abt 1861 or 1866 St Albans
1901 census
https://www.ancestry.ca/sharing/16562936?h=72ff1d&utm_campaign=bandido-...
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What are some possible reasons that a father's name is missing from a birth certificate - England?
I posted a previous question about my great-grandmother before but I ordered her birth certificate from the New GRO index https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp
However, ...
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Providing evidence of Consent of Parents for Marriage by minor in England in early 1800s?
When a couple married in England in early 1800s, how would 'consent of the parents' be presented?
Did they need a piece of paper, attendance of the parents or was their word good enough?
In the ...
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How to identify 19th century birth record in England when uncertain of parent's given names?
This question refers to people in a previously posted question about the identity of the mother of Elizabeth Cowan, b. 29 Sep 1824, England, and d. 14 Oct 1896, Ohio, USA: Could "Our Mother" ...
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Deciding between multiple birth names and dates?
I have some differences on the certificates and census information.
Birth Certificate:
Name: Edith Nellie Hardiman
Birth Date: 16 Sep 1892
Birth Location: Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire,...
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Deciphering hospital location on death certificate from 1977
I am trying to decipher this hospital location where my Great Grandmother died:
I know it is in Salisbury but I am try to:
Work out the correct name.
Attempt to locate it online resource mentioning ...
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Birth certificate v Baptism entry
Bulford, Wiltshire, England
Year: 1823
Why is it there are Baptism entries but no Birth entries?
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Conflicting names of ancestor's parents from different records?
Winnifred Lydia O'Brien
1896–1979
BIRTH 30 OCT 1896 • Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
DEATH 28 NOV 1979 • New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I believe I have found my great-grandmother in ...
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Private baptism in one church followed by baptism in another?
I have definitively identified my ancestor John Charles Wright born circa 1830, but have two conflicting baptism records for him that I need to reconcile.
John Charles Wright maintained all his life ...
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Cause of death on an 1871 British Death certificate
I have a death certificate for a woman who died at the age of 42. The cause of death is listed as "disease of the brain". I am not sure what that could mean. Did they mean meningitis or some type of ...
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What can I deduce from this newspaper extract?
There is a brief mention of an ancestor in a couple of Staffordshire newpapers:
2 October 1830 DIED John Wright age 24 of Tettenhall late of Kidderminster and formerly of Wolverhampton
In 1828 ...
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Does Cause of death being Convulsions suggest Cholera?
Not sure if you can help with this. I received the death certificate of my 3rd Great Uncle today. He died on 15th July 1851 in Bulford, Wiltshire, England and sadly was only 14 days old.
I know that ...
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Verify facts about military service and use of alias
On this website it mentions:
William Henry Baker
And states he was using an alias and his original name was Albert Budd. To quote the site:
William Henry Baker, he served under an alias, his real ...
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Seeking informational resources on “Robinson” family name origin?
I have hit somewhat of a wall in researching the European lines of my Robinson ancestors. I did learn of the possibility (vs. likelihood?) that Robinson is not a Scottish name, but rather originated ...
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What is the profession “Greensman” in 1937?
So I have this marriage certificate from 1937 in Chichester. The profession of the father looks to me to be:
Greensman
I might have read the text incorrectly. Here is the source:
I Googled the ...
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Searching for information on German held prisoner of war in England during WW2 [duplicate]
My husband has been searching for information on his father.
Name: Gustav Hendrik Hamster b. 1907 in Estonia, d. 1987 in England.
From family stories, he was in the German Navy and was captured. ...
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Possible Half Sibling
I was adopted as a small child and have never known my natural mother or father. I recently completed an AncestryDNA test and have been matched against a lady with a score of 1,912 cM across 73 ...
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Where to find 1911 sub-districts in order?
I am trying to work out which of two death records in Wakefield registration district is my ancestor.
To do this I need the subdistricts listed in the order they come on the census.
I don’t know ...
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The Stanley family in Jamaica and England
I'm looking for information about the Stanley family who apparently owned a plantation in Jamaica. I'm trying to find out if this family was part of my husband's great grandfather's family. My ...
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Reading a word in an 1841 census image
I'm struggling to read part of an 1841 census record:
The difficult element is at the far right of the line for Saml Brown Gamekeeper (in the column headed Where born in Scotland Ireland or Foreign ...
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Would a Wife be mentioned in 18th Century English Will?
I have been transcribing a number of 18th Century English wills and noticed that there don't seem to be mentions of wives -- at least not in the ones that I'm working on. Given the legal doctrine of ...
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Why was ancestor imprisoned in Bodmin Gaol?
I have located my 3rd times Great Grandfather in Bodmin Gaol from Ancestry records but no details of why he was there. I have the following information and would be grateful if you were able to let ...
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Field family motto
I understand that the family motto appears below the escutcheon on a coat of arms. While I've found a couple of (somewhat-different) escutcheons for my family -- Field -- I've not been able to find a ...
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Finding parents of John Brown 1774-1845 born Kingsbury Episcopi, Somerset, England?
Henry Brown was born 1746 who I have attributed to being the father of John Brown. The records show he was a sojouner and agricultural labourer, so he was down as a sojourner as he probably traveled ...
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Interpreting a Freemasons' Lodge Register
According to the records available on Ancestry, Edward Harper of Kidderminster joined the Lodge of Hope and Charity on 30 April 1836 aged 35 (so born approx 1801, which ties up with the 1841 census ...
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What can I infer about John Wright from this 1841 census entry?
The 1841 census for England and Wales (Piece number 1208, Book number 8, Folio number 26, Page number 2) has a John Wright aged 11 at Coventry Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. He is ...
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How would one find listings of names on ledger stones in English cathedrals?
I had several trips to UK 25 to 50 years ago. I once saw my surname on a few ledger stones in a main corridor of an English cathedral. But now I can not remember which one. I thought it was Winchester ...
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How to interpret “in descent from”
An article in NEXUS: New England Across the United States (volume XVI, no. 5), published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, contains genealogical entries such as (p. 157):
William ...
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Looking for Nesbitt family from England? [closed]
I am looking for information and research on the Nesbitt family that is from England.
I am trying to find my own Nesbitt ancestors.
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How should I interpret this sequence of records?
I'm searching for the marriage of the parents of one of my ancestors, and the baptisms of her siblings, and have a sequence of events that could have multiple interpretations.
Ann[e] Westwood was ...
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Seeking to verify 1862 Scottish marriage, birth and death records for a Henry Clifford stationed with the Royal Navy at Leith
In researching Henry Clifford (b 1839, Ewell, Surrey), grandparents' names in lieu of parents' names disallows certainty of his marriage to a Jane Young in Edinburgh 1862.
Henry volunteered w/the ...
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Would a deceased father be named on his child's baptism record?
I'm searching for the bmd records of a couple (Samuel and Ann Page) who were baptising their children in Brierley Hill Staffordshire in the early nineteenth century:
Maria Page baptised March 1803
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Did the Ryan family leave a footprint in England when immigrating to New Zealand in 1875 and 1883?
I’m researching how my Ryan family left Ireland. Jeremiah (Jerry, Joseph) Ryan and Mary Hayes took 3 children Bridget (Bid), Honora (Norah) and Thomas Ryan. Martin Frances Ryan stayed behind. They ...
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Were bodies shipped overseas to be buried?
Would it be possible, during the 1600s, to die in the New World and have your body shipped/returned to where your family came from? I'm specifically looking at Mary Sharpe, Daughter of Jan and Henry ...
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Assessing the frequency of surname in an 18th century English parish
I have a set of marriage and baptism records for an 18th century/early 19th century English parish, and want to assess the probability that the participants are related in some way, before I spend ...
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Could Francis Tolvert Greenway baptised 1774 at Falmouth be Francis Green who married Grace Woodley 1798 at Totnes?
I have asked a question about my 4th great grandfather Francis Green previously as Finding late 18th Century service record of Francis Green in Cornish Militia?
Francis Green was, according to:
the ...
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Sharing DNA with Capon family.on AncestryDNA?
My Grand Father, James Alfred Capon, was a Nurse Child. He had the family surname on a census. I am in a Family Circle with the family he stayed with.
Does this mean he was their child?
My ...
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Understanding 1939 Registration district numbers?
In the top right hand corner of each page of the 1939 register is a a pair of numbers recording the Registration District and sub-district for that page. As has been commented on in a previous ...
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Finding out what church a 19th century English family belonged to?
I am trying to research the birth of a child in 1864 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire (England), and have run into a problem with the lack of a baptismal record. There was only one parish (All Saint's) for ...
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Finding records of ancestor who died in London in 1948?
I have an extensive tree but can find nothing at all about my grandfather. He was Newman Rosenthal, and the only thing I know is that he died in London in 1948.
I’d welcome something suggestions on ...
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Seeking detailed passenger list for Solway sinking Falmouth-Corunna in 1843?
I found a website that gave full names of passengers lost at sea, including Childrens' names. I know that James John and Arabella Fitz-james were lost at sea on the sinking of the steam mail ship ...
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Are these two men named Thomas Holme the same man?
I am Japanese, but my great grandfather was an Englishman. But I can not identify him. I found a candidate for a great grandfather based on the record of Japan. His name is C. Z. Ede (Cecil Zohrab Ede)...
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Making corrections to Ancestry assumed counties attributions which are incorrect?
Can anyone inform me how to get corrections made to Ancestry's assumed counties attributions, which are clearly incorrectly listed at present?
There appear to me to be very large numbers of entries ...
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Reading illegible marriage record?
I need help reading this marriage record.
This is what I can decipher:
Jones Catherine
Oct 21 ----- of Brook St. Chester
daughter of Robt Jones a ----------
---- 22.8.1903 at R.O. Chester
-...
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Who would grant a lion tamer licence in northern England?
My great uncle Walter Manton Partington trained circus lions. His circus name was Retlaw. He was apparently the only trainer to have a licence in northern England in the early to mid 1900's. Under ...
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How can I distinguish between name changes and missing records?
Every now and again I come across a person, who seems to have changed their name. For example, a birth/baptism record may have one name, while subsequent records (marriage, census…) use another for ...
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What proportion of the births or baptisms of children were recorded in early nineteenth century England?
It's usual to search for a baptism record as a substitute birth record in England in the period prior to the start of Civil Registration (i.e. pre-1837.) (Baptism records may also include birth ...
