Antony, Gosh yes. I had missed this one. On the birth Certificate the name is Gray, so someone has altered the name to Grey in Free BMD or in the original record. Many thanks. A lesson to be learnt! Antony A. Watkinson PS both without the "H" !!! On 15 Nov 2011, at 08:01, west-riding-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Today's Topics: > > 1. Arthur Gray (Antony Arthur Watkinson) > 2. Re: Arthur Gray (C5D) > 3. Knaresborough parish registers on Ancestry (Anne Harley) > > From: Antony Arthur Watkinson <a.a.watkinson@talktalk.net> > Date: 14 November 2011 19:49:46 GMT > To: west-riding@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WRY] Arthur Gray > Reply-To: west-riding@rootsweb.com > > > I have the birth Certificate for the above, but Free BMD throws up > "no matches". > > The Certificate shows his birth as 9th April 1839 at Barnsley > Yorkshire. He shows up on 1851 and 1861 Census, and then disappears > entirely. He had 4 sons and a daughter. He supposedly married > Guilelma West who bore these children. She later married Arthur > Whitaker in Oltey. I can find no record of his death. > > > Any ideas ? > > Tony Watkinson > > (A.A. Watkinson) > > > > > From: "C5D" <antonylambert@c5d.co.uk> > Date: 14 November 2011 20:14:17 GMT > To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [WRY] Arthur Gray > Reply-To: west-riding@rootsweb.com > > > What's wrong with this one ? > > > Births Jun 1839 (>99%) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > Grey Arthur Ecclesfield 22 148 > > > > Good Luck > > > Antony Lambert > > -----Original Message----- > From: west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Antony Arthur > Watkinson > Sent: 14 November 2011 19:50 > To: west-riding@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WRY] Arthur Gray > > > I have the birth Certificate for the above, but Free BMD throws up "no > matches". > > The Certificate shows his birth as 9th April 1839 at Barnsley > Yorkshire. He shows up on 1851 and 1861 Census, and then disappears > entirely. He had 4 sons and a daughter. He supposedly married Guilelma > West who bore these children. She later married Arthur Whitaker in > Oltey. I can find no record of his death. > > > Any ideas ? > > Tony Watkinson > > (A.A. Watkinson) > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > From: "Anne Harley" <Anne@eborel.co.uk> > Date: 14 November 2011 21:22:13 GMT > To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [WRY] Knaresborough parish registers on Ancestry > Reply-To: anne@eborel.co.uk, west-riding@rootsweb.com > > > Hi all > > A point to bear in mind if considering signing up to Ancestry to > find PR > images for parishes which were originally in the West Riding but > post 1974 > moved to North Yorkshire, like Knaresborough, Harrogate and Kildwick > (where > I have interests). > > Unfortunately, post reorganisation, the records were handed over to > the > North Yorkshire Record Office based in Northallerton, so images will > not > available the film from WYAS which you can see on Ancestry. > > Regards > > Anne Harley > > > > > > > To contact the WEST-RIDING list administrator, send an email to > WEST-RIDING-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the WEST-RIDING mailing list, send an email to WEST-RIDING@rootsweb.com > . > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text.