Hello, This looks like Alfred, but unable to find a marriage between Harry and Catherine. Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1930 Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Mother's Maiden Name Reference GARSIDE Alfred Byrom Oldham East Oldham BORKINS OEAS/49/247 GARSIDE Alfred Byrom Oldham East Oldham BORKINS OEAS/49/299 This looks like the other child mentioned Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1920 Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Mother's Maiden Name Reference BORKINS John Joseph Royton Oldham BORKINS ROY/61/373 and this looks like Catherine's death Lancashire Death indexes for the years: 1957 Surname Forename(s) Age Sub-District Registers At Reference BORKINS Catherine 60 Crompton & Royton Oldham C&R/13A/32 regards, Alison ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wightmore" <dvdwmore@telus.net> To: <lancsgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [LAN] BORKINS and GARSIDE > Greetings, > > On FreeBMD, one of the birth registries is BORKINS Alfred B - BORKINS and > the other is GARSIDE, Alfred B - BORKINS; both are Mar qtr 1930 Oldhan 8d > 1082. Perhaps Jim was correct with the tact and diplomacy suggestion... > > hth > > David > > > > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No > fees! > > The list's administrator can be contacted at LancsGen-admin@rootsweb.com > > :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LANCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks to Rosemary, Alison, Antony, David, Mary, Nivard and Jim for their interest and efforts in my query. We now know something of Catherine, and will be working on Harry. Thanks again Phyl