On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:28:06 +0100, CWatters <colin.watters@NOturnersoakSPAM.plus.com> wrote: >On 07/06/2013 21:54, Charles Ellson wrote: >> On Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:18:50 +0100, CWatters >> <colin.watters@NOturnersoakSPAM.plus.com> wrote: >> >>> On 07/06/2013 11:14, CWatters wrote: >>>> On 03/06/2013 10:05, roy.stockdill@btinternet.com wrote: >>>>> From: stephen.hannigan@gmail.com >>>>> >>>>>> Good morning, >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm looking for descendants of Alfred Derek George, born 1923 in >>>>>> Stockport and >>>>>> believed to have lived out the remainder of his years in West Sussex. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> Stephen> >>>>> >>>>> FreeBMD has no Alfred Derek George born at Stockport in 1923. The >>>>> nearest I can >>>>> find is an Alfred D GEORGE whose birth was registered at Salford, >>>>> Lancs, in the >>>>> April-June quarter of 1923, mother's maiden name Chalmers (vol 8d >>>>> 105). Is that >>>>> him? >>>>> >>>>> His death is in the GRO death indexes at Findmypast (and presumably >>>>> Ancestry as >>>>> well). He died at Worthing in January 1997 and his date of birth was >>>>> given as >>>>> 13 May 1923. I can find no marriage for an Alfred Derek or Alfred D >>>>> George >>>>> after that year, so presumably he didn't have any descendants unless >>>>> he married >>>>> without the middle initial being given, >>>>> >>>>> He appears to have had a sister Christine George, mother's maiden name >>>>> Chalmers, also born at Salford in the Jan-Mar quarter of 1919 (vol 8d >>>>> page 87). >>>>> The marriage of their parents Alfred George and Nora Chalmers was at >>>>> Salford in >>>>> the September quarter of 1915 (8d 302). >>>>> >>>>> Do you not know how to search the GRO indexes at FreeBMD and other >>>>> sites? If >>>>> you are a beginner, post again and I will give you some advice and >>>>> instructions. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Roy Stockdill >>>>> Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer >>>>> Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ >>>>> >>>>> "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, >>>>> and that is not being talked about." >>>>> OSCAR WILDE >>>>> >>>> >>>> That one also appears in a Public Member tree on Ancestry. >>>> >>>> His wfe is named as >>>> >>>> Marguerita Eleanor Malone >>>> >>>> Birth 2 Jan 1927 in Georgetown, Renfrewshire >>>> Death 2006 in Paisley >>>> >>>> Marriage Information >>>> Date 8 Jun 1946 >>>> Location Johnstone >>>> to Alfred Derek George >>>> >>>> No children listed though. >>>> >>> >>> FreeBMD can't find any "George" births with mothers maiden name "Malone". >>> >> With a marriage and death in Renfrewshire there is a fair chance of >> any children also being born thereabouts and thus out of reach of >> FreeBMD. >> > >I never was much good with Geography. > I should have added that it is also too recent for ScotlandsPeople (i.e. you can search on the surname but not the mother's maiden surname) but the name combination can be searched within the GRO in Edinburgh or (up to c.1953) on films of the indexes held by the LDS.