Andrew The Mexican records at FamilySearch could help a bit. The 1930 census has a 15 year old Victoria Brown living in the family or Frederick and Luz Brown at Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico. The family included an 8 year old Robert Brown. The 1989 death registration for 67 year old Robert Louis Brown Hardy gives his parents as Frederick Archibald Brown and Lucia Hardy. There may be some American records under the name Hardy that could help. The full record of Victoria's arrival in New York indicates that she was a housewife with an address in London who was in transit to Mexico, intending to join her father Arch. Brown. His address is given as Apartment H, San Angel, Mexico City. The record also indicates that she was born in Mexico City and had lived in Texas from 1930 to 1933. The border crossing record is very hard to read. New information that can be gleaned from it is that she was headed for San Antonio, Texas, where that she had lived between 1930 and 1933. The entry in the box on the card that asks for a destination and the name and complete address of a relative or friend that she was joining, consists of a short word is virtually indecipherable followed by the address of a hotel in San Antonio in parentheses. There is a 1930 Laredo border crossing card for Victoria L Brown (15) that gives her mother and father's names as Lucy Hardy Brown and Frederick A Brown. She was intending to visit someone named Hardy in San Antonio. Her birthplace is given as Coahuila, Mexico. She was one of four children accompanying her mother. Her mother's card indicates that she was visiting her father J. B. Hardy in San Antonio. She crossed again at Laredo in 1932, intending to visit her mother in San Antonio. Her father was her closest relative in Mexico. Her birthplace is given as Vera Cruz. John Carey (GOONS 6565) -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of MILLARD A.R. via Sent: November-09-14 9:54 AM To: 'goons@rootsweb.com' Subject: [G] Mexican records? FMP's free weekend has thrown up a record for a Mrs Victoria Louise Bodimeade, age 30, sailing from Glasgow to New York in 1945 with the intention of residing permanently in Mexico. Although I can't see the full records on Ancestry.com there seem to be corresponding records of her arrival in New York in 1945 and of her crossing the border from Mexico into Laredo, Texas in 1948. Her maiden name was Brown and she had married David Bodimeade in 1938, but he remarried in 1946 so I presume there was a divorce. Any ideas where I look next to follow her? Best wishes Andrew -- Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/ + ../LND/ Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Bodimeade one-name study: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/ _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> From: John Carey via > Sent: 09 November 2014 18:01 Thanks John for all this information. Marie Byatt sent me the images off-list, and I've since discovered that the NY passenger list is on FamilySearch. > The border crossing record is very hard to read. New information that > can be gleaned from it is that she was headed for San Antonio, Texas, > where that she had lived between 1930 and 1933. The entry in the box > on the card that asks for a destination and the name and complete > address of a relative or friend that she was joining, consists of a > short word is virtually indecipherable followed by the address of a > hotel in San Antonio in parentheses. I did manage to read this after manipulating the image. Her destination is "Mex. (San Antonio Tex. Plaza Hotel)". Unfortunately I cannot decipher her birthplace. It looks like "Var. Ver. Mexico". She was divorced, on a one month holiday and travelling on a British passport. So I am now fairly sure that she was born in Mexico to an English-born father and a Mexican-born English mother. Various movements in her childhood are clear but I've no idea what happened to her after 1948. Best wishes Andrew -- Andrew Millard - A.R.Millard@durham.ac.uk Chair, Trustees of Genuki: www.genuki.org.uk Maintainer, Genuki Middx + London: www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/ + ../LND/ Academic Co-ordinator, Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Bodimeade one-name study: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ My genealogy: community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/