Goodmorning everyone, I live in Queensland, Australia and I'm trying to track the Wild/Wilde family. Ellen Wild was born 1907 at Mansfield, Nottingham and died in Rotherham, Yorkshire in 1995. Her parents were Sylvanus Wild and Emma Elliott who married in Mansfield in 1905. My apologies if I have posted this wrongly but I am new to this type of request and if some kind person should find time to advise me one way or the other I would appreciate it. Thank you in anticipation, Bill James.

Hi Bill Nothing wrong with your post except its not very clear what you are looking for? Are you looking to take this family back before 1905 or are you looking for living relatives, in which case this is not the best place for your enquiry Let us know and we can hopefully advise better Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Goodmorning everyone, > I live in Queensland, Australia and I'm trying to track the Wild/Wilde family. Ellen Wild was born > 1907 at Mansfield, Nottingham and died in Rotherham, Yorkshire in 1995. Her parents were Sylvanus > Wild and Emma Elliott who married in Mansfield in 1905. > My apologies if I have posted this wrongly but I am new to this type of request and if some kind > person should find time to advise me one way or the other I would appreciate it. > Thank you in anticipation, > Bill James. >

From: "Bill James" <[email protected]> > Goodmorning everyone, > I live in Queensland, Australia and I'm trying to track the > Wild/Wilde family. Ellen Wild was born 1907 at Mansfield, Nottingham > and died in Rotherham, Yorkshire in 1995. Her parents were Sylvanus > Wild and Emma Elliott who married in Mansfield in 1905. > My apologies if I have posted this wrongly but I am new to this type > of request and if some kind person should find time to advise me one > way or the other I would appreciate it. > Thank you in anticipation, > Bill James. > Actually, if you check the 1911 census you will find that Ellen wasn't born at Mansfield, nor was her elder sister Edith. They were born at Tibshelf, Derbyshire, because that is where Sylvanus and Emma were living at the time - Tibshelf, near Alfreton - Sylvanus being a miner. The mother Emma was also born at Tibshelf. The registration district was indeed Mansfield but it crossed the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border and this is where so many beginners go wrong! You must understand that many registration districts crossed over into more than one county, therefore you need to refine your researches to take this into account. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

From: "Bill James" <[email protected]> > Goodmorning everyone, > I live in Queensland, Australia and I'm trying to track the > Wild/Wilde family. Ellen Wild was born 1907 at Mansfield, Nottingham > and died in Rotherham, Yorkshire in 1995. Her parents were Sylvanus > Wild and Emma Elliott who married in Mansfield in 1905. > My apologies if I have posted this wrongly but I am new to this type > of request and if some kind person should find time to advise me one > way or the other I would appreciate it. > Thank you in anticipation, > Bill James. > In the argument over privacy, we all seem to have forgotten the original query! We are still waiting for Bill to tell us what it is he wants to know about the Wilde/Wilde family. I have already posted that Ellen wasn't born at Mansfield but at Tibshelf, Derbyshire, according to the 1911 census. Tibshelf lies on the Derbyshire side of the Derbyshire-Notts border but was in Mansfield registration district which straddled the two counties. Given this fact, it seems quite likely to me that Sylvanus and Emma married at Tibshelf as well and not in Mansfield because Ellen's birthplace is also given as Tibshelf, Derbyshire. Here's how to check, Bill..... At FreeBMD (freebmd.rootsweb.com) look up the marriage. Then click on the underlined blue link, Mansfield. This brings up another page which tells you that Mansfield spanned the boundaries of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire and more information can be found "here". Click on this link and you will get another page that lists all the places that were in the Mansfield registration district, You will see Tibshelf is among them and if you follow the instructions and scroll down to the bottom you will see a note that tells you it was transferred to Chesterfield RD in 1937. However, the only way to discover where they married is to buy the marriage certificate. FreeBMD also has the birth of Sylvanus Wild in Chesterfield RD in the March quarter of 1884 (vol 7b page 673) and looking at the page for Chesterfield will tell you that it included Clay Cross, which is what is given as Sylvanus's birthplace in the censuses of 1891-1911 (though the birth year differs slightly, which was quite common in the Victorian censuses). Sylvanus was a coal miner hewer in 1911 and his parents were Thomas Wild (also a coal miner) and Matilda. They were at Tibshelf in 1901 also. Now what else is it you want to know? Feel free to ask because this is what I am extremely good at (despite what my detractors may think) being a professional researcher. Normally I make a charge for my services but I am always happy to help people, especially beginners, in these mailing lists. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Argument? Is that what it was I thought it was a broadcast :-) Perhaps you were to busy to read my post which said I had already sent information on the WILD family to Bill and as its for another I suspect it will take time to digest and come back for more But that is of course up to Bill Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > In the argument over privacy, we all seem to have forgotten the original query! We are still > waiting for Bill to tell us what it is he wants to know about the Wilde/Wilde family. > > I have already posted that Ellen wasn't born at Mansfield but at Tibshelf, Derbyshire, > according to the 1911 census. Tibshelf lies on the Derbyshire side of the Derbyshire-Notts > border but was in Mansfield registration district which straddled the two counties. Given this > fact, it seems quite likely to me that Sylvanus and Emma married at Tibshelf as well and not > in Mansfield because Ellen's birthplace is also given as Tibshelf, Derbyshire. > > Here's how to check, Bill.....