Peter, Thank you for your reply. How silly of me, I didn't think to look at Google first, most times I don't find anything. I have since looked for one daughter and found a potted account of her nursing career. Neither daughter appears to have married. Thanks for putting me on the right path. Sincerely, Ailsa Peter Booth wrote: > Ailsa, > > I assume you're looking for local historical type information rather > than just BDM data for this family. > > By finding the births of twins Isobel and James in March qtr 1924 at > Ampthill on FreeBMD, I got a mother's maiden name of Thomson. > > The elder daughter Mary was not born at Ampthill but using the mother's > maiden name I found her registration in March 1923 at Braintree in Essex. > > Looking further afield, I found the marriage of William Brown and Mary > Thomson in Dec qtr 1919 at Billercay in Essex. > > Using Google, I found the following obituary in the British Medical > Journal for Dr William Brown on 14/2/1954. It gives a story of his life and > surviving family members. > > You could possibly check University of Glasgow for medical records and > use the other data to find him in census records for 1891, 1901 & 1911. You > might also like to look at War Records although most were destroyed. > > You might also find nursing records for his daughters. I'm not sure if > Gold Coast refers to the area near Brisbane or some other part of the world. > Perhaps you know a lot of this from family legends, so I didn't look > further. > > You should also be able to work backwards to trace ancestors, although > the Brown surname would be very common. But in 1891 and 1901, he should be > with parents. > > Peter in Sydney > > > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ > > The Bedfordshire Surnames List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEDFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.431 / Virus Database: 270.14.122/2591 - Release Date: 12/28/09 19:32:00 > > -- Hamilton New Zealand