Do you have his parents names ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Williams" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] WILLIAM RANT > Jenny, Thanks for trying for me. I was hoping his family would show up > on > the 1871 census, the year before he was born.and that way I could find > their > names. I have written to the Australian Queensland list in hope that he > might show up there. Otherwise he is a complete blank from 1872 until > 1906. > Somehow remembering him I doubt if he changed his name. Anyway Jenny, > Thanks for looking. > > Ken > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jenny M Benson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 2:54 AM > Subject: Re: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] WILLIAM RANT > > >> Ken Williams wrote >>>I am requesting help to try and dismantle a Brick Wall. >>>On a 1940 Wartime registration my Grandfather, WILLIAM RANT, indicated >>>his birth was on March 22, 1872 in Portsmouth England, and his parents >>>born there also. >> >> This is a difficult one. >> >> FreeBMD has no record of anyone by the name of RANT being born or >> married in Hampshire. The GRO Index images for Mar and Jun quarters of >> 1872 have only one Rant, a girl born in Norwich in the Jun Q. >> >> Do you know when William's parents married? Is it possible that he >> changed his name at some time, for whatever reason? >> -- >> Jenny M Benson >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word >> 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >> message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >