wow, thank you Joy, such a pile of information all packed into one email Much appreciated Judy BC Canada ________________________________ From: DEVON <[email protected]> on behalf of Joy Langdon <[email protected]> Sent: March 22, 2017 6:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DEV] RICHARDS, Bernard John Hi Judy, You really need the marriage certificate to confirm John and Hannah's father's names and occupation to be sure you have made the right identification (see Bev's message about the GRO website). With names like Richards and Turner it is very easy to go astray unless you obtain supporting evidence so the following information may not be your ancestors! I can't stress obtaining supporting evidence strongly enough, if you obtain the marriage certificate and it doesn't give John's father's name as Henry and/or Hannah's father as James then the whole thing collapses. There is free information available online. You can try and identify John and Hannah in earlier censuses on https://familysearch.org/ but details such as age and birthplace on census returns are sometimes incorrect and can be misleading. The 1911 doesn't show all members of the household but earlier ones do have more information. See here: FamilySearch.org - Free Family History and Genealogy Records<https://familysearch.org/> familysearch.org Discover your family history. Explore the world’s largest collection of free family trees, genealogy records and resources. https://familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1986340?region=England Location Research — FamilySearch.org<https://familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1986340?region=England> familysearch.org England. Welcome to our England research page. We've brought together tools to help you with your research in England. I had a quick look and there is John Richards born Braunton c1881 on the 1901 census, son of Henry M Richards and Elizabeth Richards both born Gloucestershire: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSWX-1SH There is a birth registration for Henry Martin Richards Bristol registration district 1840. His mother's surname was Phillips. He married either Elizabeth Nicholls or Elizabeth Thomas in Clifton registration district 1867. You can search the GRO index for births and it displays the mother's maiden name and the John Richards birth registered at Barnstaple 1881 gives Nicholls as the mother's surname. There is a birth Hannah Turner registered 1885 Torrington registration district, mother's maiden surname Guard. There is a marriage James Turner/Mary Guard, Torrington registration district 1873. I couldn't find Hannah Taylor born High Bickington in 1901 but there is an Anna Turner born c1886 High Bickington who is a servant at Braunton living in the household of Henry and Mary Guard (possibly relatives?). In 1891 Anna Turner born c1886 High Bickington is with parents James and Mary Ann (both born High Bickington) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W4F6-F6Z Check out Genuki Devon (link at the bottom of these Rootsweb Devon messages) to see if there is an OPC prepared to do lookups for parishes you are interested in. For instance, if you can trace the Turners in High Bickington before 1839 there is an OPC who has access to the PRS from 1813 until then. Genuki will also give information about what information is available online for each parish. Joy Langdon ----Original message---- >From : [email protected] Date : 22/03/2017 - 02:51 (GMTST) To : [email protected] Subject : [DEV] RICHARDS, Bernard John I am new to the list and am searching for Bernard John RICHARDS, whose father was John Richards and mother Hannah Turner John and Hannah were married in the first quarter of 1904 and Bernard was born in 1907 but I know he wasn't their first child. I believe his sister, Ester, was born before he was. I do believe there were at least 2 other sisters, but I don't believe he had a brother. Bernard married Margaret Jane Stephenson in Woolwich in the 3rd quarter of 1935 and they only had the one child, Anne, born in Apr 1940 (my sister in law) and an adopted son, Stephen John (my husband) born in Sep 1944. Margaret's father was born in Scotland, as was her mother, Maggie Bartlet (or variation thereof) Bernard, Margaret, Anne and Stephen immigrated to Canada in the summer of 1949 on the Aquitania Any documentation (ie census records, marriage, birth) for any of the family or their ancestors would be greatly appreciated. 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