Roy I had thought Kathleen might be a possibility but still couldn't find her. This looks like her now I will look for her birth in the GRO index and this should confirm it. Kathleen Rose Foster - she probably was Karen Reilly Foster. The whole family have a habit of changing their names both Christian names and Suirnames. I am sure some of the Marriage Certificates would be null and void. I know I was asked for my passport as reference when I was married last year aged 77 for the third time. Also two Marriage Certificates and a Birth Certificate. Thanks again Roy I appreciate all the work you have done. Will let you know the outcome Joyce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <eng-yorkshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [YORKSHIRE] Karen Reilly-Foster > From: "joyce.riddick" <joyce.riddick@btinternet.com> > >> I now have information that Karen Shea died between 1979 and 1982 in >> Rochdale Infirmary. They reckon she was about 68. I am now looking >> for her then even though I have looked for her before. She may not >> have been buried in the name of Karen Shea. They are not sure about >> that either.> > > The GRO Death Indexes at Findmypast have the death at Rochdale in > the March quarter of 1980 of KATHLEEN ROSE SHEA, date of birth 20 > June 1913, which would just about fit with the given age at her first > marriage of 28 for Karen Reilly-Foster. But were they the same person? > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies > Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-YORKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Roy I have looked for Karen Reilly Foster and Kathleen Foster's birth in 1913 and other years but no luck. I have had the thought that maybe she was born out of wedlock and James Reilly Foster adopted her when he married her mother. Will now look for James' marriage and maybe I will have a name for Karen Reilly Foster. What do you think? Joyce ----- Original Message ----- From: "joyce.riddick" <joyce.riddick@btinternet.com> To: <eng-yorkshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [YORKSHIRE] Karen Reilly-Foster > Roy > > I had thought Kathleen might be a possibility but still couldn't find her. > This looks like her now I will look for her birth in the GRO index and > this > should confirm it. Kathleen Rose Foster - she probably was Karen Reilly > Foster. The whole family have a habit of changing their names both > Christian names and Suirnames. I am sure some of the Marriage > Certificates > would be null and void. I know I was asked for my passport as reference > when > I was married last year aged 77 for the third time. Also two Marriage > Certificates and a Birth Certificate. > > Thanks again Roy I appreciate all the work you have done. > > Will let you know the outcome > > Joyce > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> > To: <eng-yorkshire@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 12:28 PM > Subject: Re: [YORKSHIRE] Karen Reilly-Foster > > >> From: "joyce.riddick" <joyce.riddick@btinternet.com> >> >>> I now have information that Karen Shea died between 1979 and 1982 in >>> Rochdale Infirmary. They reckon she was about 68. I am now looking >>> for her then even though I have looked for her before. She may not >>> have been buried in the name of Karen Shea. They are not sure about >>> that either.> >> >> The GRO Death Indexes at Findmypast have the death at Rochdale in >> the March quarter of 1980 of KATHLEEN ROSE SHEA, date of birth 20 >> June 1913, which would just about fit with the given age at her first >> marriage of 28 for Karen Reilly-Foster. But were they the same person? >> >> -- >> Roy Stockdill >> Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies >> Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org >> Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: >> www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html >> >> "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, >> and that is not being talked about." >> OSCAR WILDE >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ENG-YORKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com 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 > ENG-YORKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

From: "joyce.riddick" <joyce.riddick@btinternet.com> > Roy > > I have looked for Karen Reilly Foster and Kathleen Foster's birth in > 1913 and other years but no luck. I have had the thought that maybe > she was born out of wedlock and James Reilly Foster adopted her when > he married her mother. Will now look for James' marriage and maybe I > will have a name for Karen Reilly Foster. What do you think?> I think that's a very sensible idea. In my experience, the chances of someone's birth not being registered as late as 1913 are very unlikely unless they were born outside England & Wales. I have found time and time again that the reason someone couldn't be found is because they were registered at birth in a different name. However, your problem now might be finding a marriage for James Reilly-Foster. There were no doubt many James Fosters married around that time but which is the right one? The more we discuss this the more my suspicion grows that Karen made the name into a double-barrelled one to impress her first husband when she married! This would be a natural reaction for someone who was born illegitimate and wanted to disguise this fact and perhaps to pretend to a somewhat higher social status than she actually possessed. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE