Olive Following on from Caroline Bradford's warning, I realise you are in Australia and perhaps don't have the grasp of English geography that some of us take for granted, but there are techniques for testing whether your assumptions are likely. FreeBMD is almost complete for the period when you assume Mary was born, and between Mar 1894 and Dec 1895 there are 27 Mary Duffy registrations. Almost all of them are in the North of the country. Similarly, in Ancestry's indexes to the 1901 census there are 21 entries for "Mary Duffy" and "Father = James". Nine are in Lancashire, five in Yorkshire, four in Durham, and one in Northumberland. The remaining two are in London - but one is a child of four, and the other is aged 25. There are three named "Mary E" - two are in Lancashire, born 1893 and 1896, and one is in Yorkshire, born 1896. But to put that in context, there were 1125 Duffys in the 1901 census who were born in Ireland! FreeBMD has ten Mary Elizabeths born between 1890 and 1899. There is one for "Mary Elizabeth A" in Jun 1895, Woolwich 1d 1308. Woolwich is in Kent (on the south bank of the Thames) but North Woolwich is in Essex (on the other side of the river). Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a likely entry for her that I can find in the 1901 census. What else do you know about her or her family? Dick Mathews Olive and Bob Bandy wrote: > Hi all, > I know a few of you have already done some looking up for me, which I really appreciate, but I still have not been able to find the right Mary Elizabeth Duffy. The one I thought was the right one born West Ham, Essex 1898 was not the one after all. > > Mary's marriage certificate in 1920 states her as being 25 years old which means she would have to have been born in 1895, her father named as James Duffy (then deceased in 1920). > > I'm trying Essex first because this is where she married and had the first child, so hopefully Essex is where they came from. > > Any extra help would really be appreciated. > > Thank you, > Olive Bandy > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.6.6/1621 - Release Date: 8/19/2008 6:53 PM > > >