Hello everyone,I am new to the list and would like to know if someone could help me locate the Family of THOMAS CLARK [CLARKE].He is mygtgtgtgtgrandfather. According to my 3gtgrandmother EMMA [CLARK]Frost's Marriage certificate Thomas was a farmer in Akeley.The 1871 census says she was born in Stow,1881 says Bide.I have seen her in Bide more than Stow..How would I find here birth cetificate? and info on her dad. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried to look on BMD but can never get on,it's always busy. Thank you Laura in the USA

Hi Laura FreeBMD or 1837online won't help you much in getting more info on Emma's birth in any case, as according to the two census records you mentioned she was born around 1818 and this is before civil registration started. So there will be no birth certificate, but if you are lucky you might track down a baptism record - this will be in the parish registers and those registers are your key source of info for tracing any further back in her family. You might want to see if the parish registers for either of her possible birthplaces are filmed and available through LDS, then order them to see if her baptism is in there. You could also try to locate her in the earlier censuses (bit challenging as she is probably in London) and see what is given there as her birthplace - that might indicate which option has been given more often, and therefore which parish to look in first. She is not in the Bucks census for 1851 (there are a couple of CLARKs in Akely, all age 25 and under), but presumably could have already been in London by then. There is also no Thomas CLARK(E) in any of the parishes you mentioned (could be dead by then of course). As the 1841 Bucks census is not indexed, you will really need a definite parish in order for anyone to do a lookup for either Emma or Thomas. Or you could get lucky and a CLARK(E) researcher will pop up on this list with the info you need.... Regards Alex in Auckland NZ --- KPN5010@wmconnect.com wrote: > Hello everyone,I am new to the list and would like > to know if someone could > help me locate the Family of THOMAS CLARK > [CLARKE].He is mygtgtgtgtgrandfather. > According to my 3gtgrandmother EMMA [CLARK]Frost's > Marriage certificate > Thomas was a farmer in Akeley.The 1871 census says > she was born in Stow,1881 says > Bide.I have seen her in Bide more than Stow..How > would I find here birth > cetificate? and info on her dad. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > I have tried to look on BMD but can never get > on,it's always busy. > Thank you > Laura in the USA Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com