On 2013-08-14 11:29:09 +0000, Anne Chambers said: > Tickettyboo wrote: > >> If there is anyone who has had the stamina to read all this and has a >> bit of stamina left over to give it some >> thought and pass comment/put forward suggestions I would 'really' >> appreciate it. > You could try getting this birth certificate - there are only two > Fredericks registered in Liverpool between 1871 and 1875 > > Births Jun 1872 > Wilson Frederick Liverpool 8b 16 Thanks Anne, I 'had' seen that but not too sure that it would get me any further forward (even if it shows that he was the child of William Wilson and Mary Ann Poland) to establishing a link between 'my' adult John Wilson and the child I am seeing on the census as the step son of Thomas Collins. That is my main sticking point. I can see that Mary Ann did have children called Frederick, John and Elizabeth Gertrude but John Wilson was such a common name that its really difficult to establish if he was mine. I had a similar situation with another ancestor, that one took me 7 years to sort out and in the end I settled for the 1939 National ID record which finally gave me the adult ancestors d.o.b. - that then gave me enough info to link her into the birth cert I had. As John died in 1923 that's not an option in this case so I am struggling to get some sort of definite link. Any thoughts on 'any' other sort of late 1800s / early 1900s records that would have an adult's d.o.b. on? My only other thought would be (ever hopeful) a gravestone which handily had birth- death dates on, but so far I can't establish where he was buried. I will keep plodding away at it though :-) -- Tickettyboo

Tickettyboo <tickettyboo@mail2oops.com> wrote: > On 2013-08-14 11:29:09 +0000, Anne Chambers said: > >> Tickettyboo wrote: >>>> If there is anyone who has had the stamina to read all this and has a >>>> >> bit of stamina left over to give it some >>> thought and pass comment/put forward suggestions I would 'really' >> appreciate it. >> You could try getting this birth certificate - there are only two > >> Fredericks registered in Liverpool between 1871 and 1875 >>> Births Jun 1872 >> Wilson Frederick Liverpool 8b 16 > > Thanks Anne, I 'had' seen that but not too sure that it would get me any > further forward (even if it shows that he was the child of William Wilson > and Mary Ann Poland) to establishing a link between 'my' adult John > Wilson and the child I am seeing on the census as the step son of Thomas > Collins. That is my main sticking point. I can see that Mary Ann did have > children called Frederick, John and Elizabeth Gertrude but John Wilson > was such a common name that its really difficult to establish if he was mine. > I had a similar situation with another ancestor, that one took me 7 years > to sort out and in the end I settled for the 1939 National ID record > which finally gave me the adult ancestors d.o.b. - that then gave me > enough info to link her into the birth cert I had. As John died in 1923 > that's not an option in this case so I am struggling to get some sort of definite link. > Any thoughts on 'any' other sort of late 1800s / early 1900s records that > would have an adult's d.o.b. on? My only other thought would be (ever > hopeful) a gravestone which handily had birth- death dates on, but so far > I can't establish where he was buried. I will keep plodding away at it though :-) Have you tried here? <https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch> -- wtwjgc (Joe)