Can anyone provide me with advice or help in looking for French birth/marriage/death records in the 20th century? I have an ancestor who married a French girl in France in 1919; they had 2 sons both born in France. He died in London in 1924; there is no indication on the DC whether his wife was with him in England. I cannot find her death (or potential remarriage) in Britain. Family memory (obviously not always reliable) relates that the boys were orphaned and brought up in England. There is a record of the younger one in a school for orphans in Kent in 1937. I have found the French birth record of the French girl in 1900 and a census for her family in 1911. I would like to find the marriage record in 1919, and any information about what happened to the girl after that, and especially after her husband's death in London in 1924. Details are as follows (no French accents used!). Aimee Cecile Eugenie Bertin born 1 October 1900 in Marquise, Pas de Calais. Aimee Cecile Bertin recorded in 1911 in Marquise with her father Jean Francois and mother Louise Aimee Bertin. She married (or at the very least lived with; he was serving in the Army in 1919) Sidney Alfred Bloxam (recorded at birth as Alfred Sydney) in 1919. First son born Sidney Charles Bloxam on 26 April 1919 in Marquise (details from his 1969 death certificate in Surrey, where his mother is not mentioned). Sidney Charles Bloxam does not appear to have married. Second son was George Bloxam - no British birth record, so probably also born in France. Sidney Alfred Bloxam died 20 March 1924 in Camden, a bus conductor living in Southwark; death reported by his brother-in-law. (As an aside, the death was registered in Camberwell, although it happened in Camden - is that irregular, or does it not matter where the death is registered?) Both children were in England in 1929 (dated group photo) - whether on a visit or living there is impossible to tell. Any advice or help would be gratefully received. Lawrence Pearse

Lawrence Pearse wrote: > > Can anyone provide me with advice or help in looking for French > birth/marriage/death records in the 20th century? Please reply offlist as this is off topic for Surrey, England. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk