On 2013-08-14 13:35:05 +0000, wtwjgc (Joe) said: > 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> Hi Joe, yes thanks, but unfortunately no record of him. I will have to try to get to Liverpool I suppose and and see if I can find anything in the archives now that they have finally finished the new library. -- Tickettyboo