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Missing Nan!

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JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 13 Mar 2011 16:57

Right, Rebecca is the one I suspected:

Name: Rebecca Matthews
Death Registration Month/Year: 1957
Age at death (estimated): 67 = dob c1890
Registration district: Rochford
Inferred County: Essex
Volume: 4a
Page: 648

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 13 Mar 2011 16:57

Oh, and, assuming your nan is deceaed or consents -- what's her name?? and when was she born, and where ...

My question might be whether you're quite sure you have the right birth certificate for your nan. ;)

Angela

Angela Report 13 Mar 2011 16:54

William Thomas Matthews died 05/03/1960 and Rebecca Matthews died 1957. Apparently in Rochford?

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 13 Mar 2011 16:52

Is this William's death?

Name: William T Matthews
Death Registration Month/Year: 1960
> Age at death (estimated): 74 = dob c1886
Registration district: Colchester
Inferred County: Essex
Volume: 4a
Page: 517

A lot of blanks to be filled in to get the info needed to help here. His DOB is one piece of info that's needed.

What about Rebecca's death? Where and when? It will help establish her date of birth.

Angela

Angela Report 13 Mar 2011 16:50

No they were definetly from London or Essex

Angela

Angela Report 13 Mar 2011 16:49

It's a bit starnge that they had Thomas (1902) and then Florence (1905) before they married in 1913, isn't it ?

Kucinta

Kucinta Report 13 Mar 2011 16:46

Could you give some idea of location, and more detail on date of Florence's birth?

Found this couple but don't think they're right as no chidren with them:

MATTHEWS, Thomas Head Married M 32 1879 Labourer In Biscuit Factory Birmingham Warwick
MATTHEWS, Ellen Eliza Wife Married F 25 1886 Marylebone London
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RG number:RG14 Piece:1685 Reference:RG14PN1685 RG78PN59RD22 SD2 ED8 SN29

Registration District:
Poplar Sub District:
Bromley Enumeration District:
8 Parish:
Poplar Borough

Address:
16 Teviot Street County:
London


GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 13 Mar 2011 16:45

Name: Ellen Eliza Tomalin
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1888
Spouse Name: Thomas Matthews
Spouse Age: 26
Record Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 08 Jun 1913
Parish: St Anne, Shoreditch
County: London
Borough: Hackney
Father Name: James Tomalin
Spouse Father Name: Richard Mathews Matthews

Angela

Angela Report 13 Mar 2011 16:44

Oh sorry they were from Shoreditch, London

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 13 Mar 2011 16:43

Location ?

Angela

Angela Report 13 Mar 2011 16:39

Hi.
A while back I started looking into my Nan's family tree but got stuck. All the information about her was correct but when we ordered her birth certificate we were in for a shock. The women who we thought was her mother, Rebecca Matthews, wasn't her mother (we still don't know who Rebecca is and why she is in my grandmother's bible).
Infact her mother was Ellen Eliza Tomalin and her father had a completly different name from what his death was registered under. He was registered in 1960 (his death) as William Thomas Matthews but infact his daughter's birth certficate says he is called Thomas Matthews.
I then did a search on the 1911 census (I have no credits) and found that there were no family's with Florence, Thomas and Ellen living in. (She also had an older brother, Thomas. And the strangest thing is there is no marriage of Ellen and Thomas until 1913 even though they had there oldest son in 1902! Can anyone help with the 1911?
Regards,
Angela