Isn't it funny what they remember?

[Mark Dudley]

I just rang my mum to tell her about her great grandmother.

We got to talking and I suddenly discovered that she had stayed with her grandmother as a child. Never bothered to tell me that before! :)

But I can't find her grandmother's death - Harriet Birch (nee Dye) b 1863 Kings Lynn - last seen 1811 in Leeds - my mum was born 1935 so she must have been alive about 1940 if my mum's memory is right.

Can anybody find her?

[Merry]

Name: Harriet Birch
Death Registration Month/Year: 1951 Q4
Age at death (estimated): 88
Registration district: Leeds
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 2c
Page: 139

[Mark Dudley]

Blimey Merry!

Thanks!

[Mark Dudley]

I don't suppose you can find her husband - Joe Birch b 1861 - I've not been able to pin it down.


The only one I've been able to find is Joe Birch age 57 Nottingham 7b 324

[Margaret in Burton]

What census do you last have him on Mark?

[Mark Dudley]

1911 - but I've just spoken to my father and apparently he abandoned his wife and 10 kids - I think I just found him on Ancestry - in 1937

[Margaret in Burton]

Yes, just found the same one. Leeds North

[Mark Dudley]

Again - funny what they remember to tell you when you ask the questions. 15 minutes ago I asked about Joe and was told - I don't remember him. Now it was - well he abandoned his family :)

[Margaret in Burton]

Joe Birch

Sep qtr 1937
9b 217
Leeds North

age 76

[Margaret in Burton]

I think they think you want exact dates and they don't remember those. They don't realise you only need a few pointers. Just need a nudge in the right direction.

[Mark Dudley]

True - thanks Margaret

[Nell]

My Mum often says "yes that's right" after I've done the spadework and ordered certs or coughed up for 1911 census entries.

Never forgotten the time she produced a box that belonged to my grandmother which was full of obituaries cut from newspapers, letters, certificates and Wills. It would have been lovelier if I hadn't forked out for most of the certs already!

[Kit]

But I can't find her grandmother's death - Harriet Birch (nee Dye) b 1863 Kings Lynn - last seen 1811 in Leeds - my mum was born 1935 so she must have been alive about 1940 if my mum's memory is right.

Was she a time traveller? ;)