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Can someone please remind me where the site is I used to wade through BMDs.
I cannot remember. I need post 1958. FreeBMD is not showing anything I want.
Thanks.
This is the one General Register Office (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/login.asp)
Thank you.
Also, do you know if Ancestry has English electoral rolls?
GRO doesn’t have the years I want for births. Any other ideas?
The GRO site only has deaths after 1958 (not births, which only go up to 1919 and no marriages). There are probably as many mistakes on that death index as there are on Ancestry's, but they do go up to 2019 - Ancestry only goes up to 2005 or so, with more limited coverage after that.
Ancestry has erolls for London and Surrey and a (very?) few other areas up to the mid 1960s and England 2003-2010 which includes a good stab at year of birth for entries (better than the same records on FMP). FMP also has wider coverage for the late 1920s-1932 or so.
The above is from memory, so don't quote me!!
GRO doesn’t have the years I want for births. Any other ideas?
Ancestry or FMP?
It’s this Leslie Melhuish again. I’ve tracked his kids’marriages, but only the daughter seems to have a child.
Cannot find anything for them, children, deaths, immigration. Maybe they found their dad and joined him in some cave in an inaccessible place.
The eldest son had two children.
I'm not sure which is the right marriage (if he married) for the youngest son, but the entry I wondered about also led to two children. (I've not attempted to eliminate this marriage at all though - what year was the one you thought might be him?)
The eldest son died 31 Jan 2013.
MELHUISH, LESLIE CHRISTOPHER S 1935
GRO Reference: DOR Q1/2013 in Plymouth (416-1D) Entry Number 508029555
Thank you. I just found his wife’s death notice. Marlene. Two children are named.
This probably has nothing to do with your search, but do you know why Leslie's mother, Edith Helen Melhuish, sailed for America a few weeks after the 1911 census along with Isaac Astin (not sure if that's her father or another relative as he has the wrong middle initial to be her dad). Seems an odd thing to be happening, leaving her children behind....
Perhaps that's where Leslie got his wanderlust from?!!
I'm not sure which is the right marriage (if he married) for the youngest son, but the entry I wondered about also led to two children. (I've not attempted to eliminate this marriage at all though - what year was the one you thought might be him?)
Not sure of course, but thought 1960 to KJH.
This probably has nothing to do with your search, but do you know why Leslie's mother, Edith Helen Melhuish, sailed for America a few weeks after the 1911 census along with Isaac Astin (not sure if that's her father or another relative as he has the wrong middle initial to be her dad). Seems an odd thing to be happening, leaving her children behind....
Perhaps that's where Leslie got his wanderlust from?!!
No, I didn’t know. The Melhuish family had boats. They had fishing fleets.
I think it’s Edith’s fil, Samuel’s father, who is supposed to have had a parallel family in the Faroe Islands.
I’m thinking this offer to help might send me even loopier than I am already.
Can you pm me the youngest’s children please. I can’t find anything.
Not sure of course, but thought 1960 to KJH.
Yes, that's the one I thought - two children from that union.
So there were two from the eldest child. I’ve found one daughter from the middle child, and you have two from the youngest. I also found a marriage for the daughter’s child. I think.
If Leslie went off and left his family, it seems strange they carried on the name. Understand the first one.
Where are you finding these by the way?
MERRY!!!
There is a K M (maybe KJH) living in Australia on FB.
One of her friends is a person with the H surname.
Should I be cheeky and message?
Message sent via FB. I know you don’t see them sometimes so I sent a friend request as well.
*crosses fingers*
I got the children matches from FreeBMD
I’ve found one daughter from the middle child
I found two daughters and a son for the middle child - 1961, 1966 and 1970 all in Plymouth.
Okay, that site is playing games. Still one daughter from C and no kids from D. Grrr!
Oh, and another daughter if I change the spelling of the father's surname! 1957 Plymouth.
no kids from D. Grrr!
Two daughters, 1965 Redruth, 1971 Truro.
I still only get one child from the daughter, in 1957.
The 1957 child has the same spelling for father as the marriage.
Got them. Thanks. I took the s off and nothing. They changed the u to an o. Didn’t know I could search just by mother’s name.
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