Hi Sue, You can order copies of their birth certificates from http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/, but they do cost £9.25 each, so I would do some research first and try and pin down the actual registration. You can use www.freebmd.org.uk. to try and find the birth registration of the people you mention, Ive looked for John and Julia and they arent obvious...... There are no John and Julia's Grady's in Monmouthshire? But have you looked into other census years, because what looks to be your family in 1871 shows John and Julia as being born in Merther Tydfil under the surname Gready? Also in 1851 they are lodging at Merther again with the family of John Mangon. Also on ancestry there is a naturalization record for John Grady, aged 24 in Connecticut, dated 24th Oct 1879? I hope this may help Stuart
Thank you, Stuart, for the information on ordering birth certs. Alas, finding the dates is the big problem - freebmd has only Thomas Grady (or was that on the Glamorgan birth CD?). I believe that you have found the family in 1851, 61 and 71. I do need to look into that naturalization record. I am trying to find his death (in New Haven, CT); I have one for Bridget (the mother) and that is what set this all off as it says her maiden name was Shea! not Moran. Shea possibly makes her my gr gr grandfather's sister. Oh, well, no one said that this would be easy. Thank you for your help. Sue On 11/26/2013 2:56 PM, stuart churchill wrote: > Hi Sue, > You can order copies of their birth certificates from http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/, but they do cost £9.25 each, so I would do some research first and try and pin down the actual registration. You can use www.freebmd.org.uk. to try and find the birth registration of the people you mention, Ive looked for John and Julia and they arent obvious...... > There are no John and Julia's Grady's in Monmouthshire? But have you looked into other census years, because what looks to be your family in 1871 shows John and Julia as being born in Merther Tydfil under the surname Gready? Also in 1851 they are lodging at Merther again with the family of John Mangon. > Also on ancestry there is a naturalization record for John Grady, aged 24 in Connecticut, dated 24th Oct 1879? > I hope this may help > Stuart > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message