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Hi Greyghost,
Got it.

freebmd is just so easy

Go to the the site.................click on the red box 'search'

For births after 1911, simply put both surnames in the boxes as labelled and click find

To find deaths, just put in the surname and first forename, plus initial of second forename, if applicable

Glenn you have edited your opening post so the thread makes no sense

a few posts down on page 1 you say

'I have very little info but possibly Portsmouth area,i think her mum was Lydia Marsh nee Bundy whose mum was Charlotte Bundy nee Durrell ,there may be variants on Bundy sir name,hope this helps and thankyou.'

there is no indication to tell anyone who SHE is except that the posts in the thread seem to indicate it is about a Susan

perhaps you edited to take out personal info about a probably living person

but the thing is pretty incoherent now ...

please don't start any more threads though



edit, okay, google's cache gives us the original opening post for anyone else as lost as I was

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Looking for Susan Marsh whose mum would have been, i believe Lydia Marsh nee Bundy or any children of Susan.I have very, very little info on this person but she could have been a beauty contestant at some point.
Any help how ever little would be appreciated.
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as I understand it you also want to find the death of Lydia Marjorie (Marsh) Birch, married to Stanley T Birch

this is likely the husband's death

Name: Stanley Thomas Birch
Birth Date: 7 Feb 1909
Date of Registration: Dec 1998
Age at Death: 89
Registration district: Surrey Northern
Inferred County: Surrey
Register Number: NSB6
District and Subdistrict: 7571B
Entry Number: 55

Births Mar 1909
BIRCH Stanley Thomas Hackney 1b 437


a Lydia M Birch aged 103 was on the electoral roll recently, in fact that would be the current electoral roll if born 1912

you can find that info at

http://www.freeelectoralroll.co.uk/

(cannot link to it directly or I would make you a tinyurl for it)

but 192.com shows her at that address only until 2010

so it seems possible she has died recently and death records for recent dates are not available on line

you may want to contact the owner of this Birch family tree that shows Lydia Marjorie Birch née Marsh

the owner clearly knows of her children and does show a child for one of them

http://www.myheritage.com/site-family-tree-196133291/family-site-backupmytree?familyTreeID=51

simple things ... googled the name 'lydia marjorie birch' (to begin looking for a possible death notice)

if you click to see Lydia's ancestors, it shows her as having two siblings, and shows her mother Lydia with two siblings Evalina and Ethel

and goes back some generations on the Durrell and Bunday lines ... whether the tree owner is related to Lydia herself i.e. the Marsh/Bunday family is not evident

and then making the search for 'birch lydia marjorie' as it might appear in a death notice finds this

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80016904

Birch, Lydia Marjorie (IWM interview)


Catalogue number 17221
Production date 1996-12-19
Subject period 1945 - 1975
Birch, Lydia Marjorie (interviewee/speaker)
Category sound

Object description
British nurse with St John’s Ambulance Malayan Relief Team in Malaya, 1956-1958
Content description

REEL 1 Background in Portsmouth, GB, 1912-1956: family; education; marriage; memories of German Air Force bombing of Portsmouth, 1940-1941; training as nurse; employment, 1943-1956. Recollections of period as nurse with St John’s Ambulance Malayan Relief Team in Malaya, 8/1956-12/1958: volunteering for work; role of relief team; how she travelled to villages in Red Cross van and by boat; running makeshift clinics in villages; visit to aboriginal tribe; health of aboriginals. REEL 2 Continues: amusing story of crossing ravine over log; power of aboriginal headmen; attitude towards danger from insurgents; incident of encounter with aboriginal in forest; encounter with British soldier in jungle; contrast between Chinese, Malay and Tamil populations; attitude towards local Malay medical practitioner; opinion of Chinese; occasion when see was threatened by fisherman with panga; receiving gifts in appreciation of her work; uniform worn; attitude of population towards her; work of St John’s Ambulance in Malaya. REEL 3 Continues: language difficulties; speculation on political attitudes of Malayan civilians, drugs and equipment carried; question of whether drugs could fall into hands of insurgents; leaving Malaya. Aspects of period as Head of Training School for Health at Embu, Kenya, 1959-1970: arrival in Kenya on appointment; duties; lack of awareness of Mau Mau activity in area


it is 30 minutes long and I think you will very much want to listen

"I was born in ? Road Southsea Portsmouth on the 17th of February 1912 ..."

that also means that this result from the search for 'lydia marjorie birch' that I had initially disregarded

Kenya Gazette - Google Books Result
https://books.google.ca/books?id=96OQ5X-LoN0C
? - 1595 pages
Box 124, Nakuru; Mrs. Lydia Marjorie Birch, P.0. Bork 849, Kisumu; Mrs. Helen D' Cunha, P.0. Box 4, Kisumu;_ Mrs. Rebecca Athieno Oluoch, P.0. Box 105 ...

is in fact about your Lydia, whose name appears in the lower right corner of this page:

http://tinyurl.com/pkcpl7j


I'm listening to Lydia ... she talks about her mother Charlotte ...

edit ... in fact ... I just listened to 30 minutes ... there are two more segments, which I will postpone for myself as it is late but you will want to make time for :-)

Hi Jooniecloonie
Absolutely brilliant,i do not know how to thankyou enough.
I will send you a pm.
Yours in success,
Glenn Ford.

thank you for the message you sent and you're very welcome Glenn ! Finding this sort of thing is always a bit of a thrill. I did think you might want to save it and share it :-)

it might be too much to hope that Lydia is still living but it could be worth checking with the address on the electoral roll and maybe neighbours ... she was certainly very hale and hearty at 85 it seemed

or the production company might have information?

anyone else interested in the life of a strong woman who overcame early disadvantages (poverty and an abusive husband) (she was open about this in the interview so it is not sensitive info) and went on to live an enormously full and long life ... and just a bit of the real story behind the dry data we ordinarily have access to in ancestor searches ... will also enjoy the tapes.

Hi JoonieCloonie,
Thankyou.
Glenn.

Looking for any living descendants of my cousin, Lydia Marjorie Birch,i would love to hear from you if you can help.
We believe she had three children and it would be wonderful to make contact how ever brief this may be.
Fingers crossed,
Glenn Ford.

Glenn, they are not too likely to see this message unless they search the internet for these names ... one has to look for people in order to find them

I did give you what appeared to be current contact info for a grandchild of Lydia Marsh Birch

have you followed up on that at all?

Hi Jooniecloonie,is that the Plymouth one?

Yours in success,
Glenn.

well, close. Cornwall ;)

read my message again!

fingers crossed it's current.