Hello I have dug about on several sites and cannot find what I am sure I have seen in years gone by - the info contained on BDM certificates. Births in the 1800s, marriages ditto, deaths also. Please - can folk advise of at least a site that gives this info? I have ordered a number before the price rises and want more - I THINK I know the certs but am not sure. Is it, for example, putting as a qualifier on a death cert the deceased woman's maiden name, her husband, or her children? I strongly suspect not for the husband and children - mavbe her maiden name would be on it. I do not feel like ordering a cert on the off chance her husband was the informant - I know him, he was my g grandfather. If this particular death cert is the one I want, then he re-married in the same quarter and same year as his first wife died leaving him with a pack of children, down to toddler age. I'd expected it to be fast but not THAT fast! There are other certs I need, too, and I am having similar problems with them - especially with my gg grandfather on the same line who also had three wives after the first two died! Dawn (Melbourne Australia)

Hi Dawn, I'm not sure of a site but on the certificates I have - Death 1897 - for a married Female, no maiden name, listed as widow of ........ informant was a daughter. So at least I could get the married surname for the daughter. Death - for a child ,only listed father, on the cert father was already deceased and sister was informant even thou mother was still alive. Marriage - listed the fathers name & occupation, not the mothers name. On one it didn't list the father as deceased but he was. Marriage 1917 husband was a widower, took me some years to find his previous marriage, but if he had been a woman, cert may have said formerly under surname. Early 1900's death cert same as 1800's. Not much information when trying to match up parents. Cheers Rose.

That's good, I think I can identify the deceased person if the widow or wife of.. Levi FIRTH in this case, is listed. The marriage cert that comes mighty fast after the death then should say the groom's father.. which would prove sort of it is him! Thank you Rose. Whether it is OK to put a qualifier wife of Levi Firth, I do not know. It might be just Levi and then - I don't get it! I know what you are thinking - we are spoiled here in Victoria with the amount of info on a death cert. when Mum died, it had me (only child), her marriage details and spouse, her parents, and her mother's maiden name. Now that is in effect four generations from one cert - three certainly. As well as her parents' occupations and her place of birth. Dawn -----Original Message----- From: eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of opiekan Sent: Saturday, 6 March 2010 5:10 PM To: eng-cambridgeshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMS] info on English bdm certs Hi Dawn, I'm not sure of a site but on the certificates I have - Death 1897 - for a married Female, no maiden name, listed as widow of ........ informant was a daughter. So at least I could get the married surname for the daughter. Death - for a child ,only listed father, on the cert father was already deceased and sister was informant even thou mother was still alive. Marriage - listed the fathers name & occupation, not the mothers name. On one it didn't list the father as deceased but he was. Marriage 1917 husband was a widower, took me some years to find his previous marriage, but if he had been a woman, cert may have said formerly under surname. Early 1900's death cert same as 1800's. Not much information when trying to match up parents. Cheers Rose. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4919 (20100305) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4919 (20100305) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com