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Hi, I am new to GR and am trying to compile my family tree but don`t really know what to do.
My father was Albert Reginald Ward, dob 18/03/27 and he was born in Durham. He died on 16/01/84. He had a brother called Ken Ward and a sister called Jean Ward (now Mills). I am not in touch with either.

My grandfather was called Leslie and grandmother Agnes Mary (may have been Mary Agnes). They lived in Gerrards Cross.

That is all I know.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thank you

Hi Tina and welcome to GR.

Albert R Ward on the 1939 Register

Ward Household (5 People) Charney Lovel Road , Amersham R.D., Buckinghamshire, England

Albert R Ward 18 Mar 1927 Male At School Single 123 3
Albert L Ward 19 Sep 1903 Male Electrician Aircraft Married 123 1
Mary A Ward 23 Oct 1905 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 123 2
(2 Closed Records)

Edited.

So his father was Albert Leslie Ward and NOT Leslie Ward!

Births Jun 1927 (>99%)
Ward Albert R Moore Newcastle T. 10b 259

Parents marriage.....

Marriages Sep 1926 (>99%)
Moore Mary A Ward Amersham 3a 2521
Ward Albert L Moore Amersham 3a 2521

PH- the 1939 register transciption is not quite correct:

1939 register:

Ward Household (5 People) Charney Lovel Road , Amersham R.D., Buckinghamshire, England

Albert L Ward 19 Sep 1903 Male Electrician Aircraft Married
Mary A Ward 23 Oct 1905 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married
Albert R Ward 18 Mar 1927 Male At School Single
Closed Record
Closed Record

Albert Leslie Ward in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Albert Leslie Ward
Birth Date: 19 Sep 1903
Date of Registration: Mar 1982
Age at Death: 78
Registration district: Chiltern and Beaconsfield
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Volume: 19
Page: 1183


Mary Agnes Ward in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Mary Agnes Ward
Birth Date: 23 Oct 1905
Date of Registration: Dec 1982
Age at Death: 77
Registration district: Chiltern and Beaconsfield
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Volume: 19
Page: 1195

Births Dec 1903 (>99%)
Ward Albert Leslie Wycombe 3a 873


WARD, ALBERT LESLIE mmn STEVENS
GRO Reference: 1903 D Quarter in WYCOMBE Volume 03A Page 873

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1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Greenway Austen Wood Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England

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Household Members
First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Occupation Age Birth year Birth place
Albert John Ward Head Married Male Carman Railway Agent 34 1877 Pamber Heath Hants
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Alice Ward Wife Married Female - 31 1880 Bledlow Ridge Bucks
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Albert Leslie Ward Son - Male - 7 1904 High Wycombe Bucks
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Doris Ward Daughter - Female - 5 1906 Henley on Thames Oxon
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Stanley Harold Ward Son - Male - 3 1908 High Wycombe Bucks
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Frank Moger Boarder Single Male Plasterer 25 1886 Oxford
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William Moger Boarder Single Male Plasterer 20 1891 Oxford


married 10 years 3 children born 3 living none died

Marriages Sep 1900 (>99%)
Hewing James Edgar Marylebone 1a 1325

Reeves Charlotte Marylebone 1a 1325

Stevens Alice Marylebone 1a 1325

Ward Albert John Marylebone 1a 1325

1911 ????
Greenway Austen Wood Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Occupation Age Birth year Birth place
Albert John Ward Head Married Male Carman Railway Agent 34 1877 Pamber Heath Hants
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Alice Ward Wife Married Female - 31 1880 Bledlow Ridge Bucks
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Albert Leslie Ward Son - Male - 7 1904 High Wycombe Bucks
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Doris Ward Daughter - Female - 5 1906 Henley on Thames Oxon
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Stanley Harold Ward Son - Male - 3 1908 High Wycombe Bucks
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Frank Moger Boarder Single Male Plasterer 25 1886 Oxford
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William Moger Boarder Single Male Plasterer 20 1891 Oxford

now you can track back through the census :-(

Doris Ward who appears on the 1911 census.....is actually Winifred Doris Ward.

Winifred Doris Ward in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Winifred Doris Ward
Registration Year: 1905
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: Henley
Inferred County: Oxfordshire
Volume: 3a
Page: 977


WARD, WINIFRED DORIS mmn STEVENS
GRO Reference: 1905 D Quarter in HENLEY IN THE COUNTIES OF OXFORD AND BUCKINGHAM Volume 03A Page 977


Winifred D Ward in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Name: Winifred D Ward
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1938
Registration district: Amersham
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Spouse: Edward J Briden
Volume Number: 3a
Page Number: 4554


Winifred O (D on the image) Briden on the 1939 Register

Briden Household (2 People) Rosemount Lower Road , Amersham R.D., Buckinghamshire, England

Winifred O Briden 28? Sep 1905 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 33 2
Edward J Briden 01 Jan 1914 Male Master Plumber Married 33 1


Winifred Doris Briden in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Winifred Doris Briden
Birth Date: 18 Sep 1905
Date of Registration: Dec 1981
Age at Death: 76
Registration district: Chiltern and Beaconsfield
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Volume: 19
Page: 1155


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Brother Stanley......

Stanley Harold Ward in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Stanley Harold Ward
Registration Year: 1907
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: Wycombe
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Volume: 3a
Page: 912

Marriages Dec 1935 (>99%)
Elliott Myrtle H Ward Thanet 2a 3101
Ward Stanley H Elliott Thanet 2a 3101

Stanley H Ward on the 1939 Register

Ward Household (2 People) Mulluerry , Amersham R.D., Buckinghamshire, England

Stanley H Ward 18 Oct 1907 Male Electrical Improver Married 73 1
Myrtle H Murgatroyd (Ward) 07 Nov 1912 Female Housewife
(One Closed Record)

Indicates that Myrtle later married a MR MURGATROYD

Marriages Jun 1968 (>99%)
MURGATROYD KENNETH M WARD ETON 6A 915
WARD MYRTLE H MURGATROYD ETON 6A 915


Stanley Harold Ward in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
Name: Stanley Harold Ward
Death Date: 20 Sep 1959
Death Place: Buckinghamshire, Buckingham, England
Probate Date: 9 Dec 1959
Registry: London, England

Of Meadow View, Grove Lane, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire...Died at Westminster Memorial Hospital, Shaftsbury, Dorset.

To Myrtle Halton Ward widow.......Effects: £370 16s 9d


Myrtle Halton Murgatroyd in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Myrtle Halton Murgatroyd
Birth Date: Nov 1912
Date of Registration: May 1988
Age at Death: 75
Registration district: Chiltern and South Bucks
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Volume: 19
Page: 1073


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Albert Leslie Ward's parents marriage........


Albert John Ward in the London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
Name: Albert John Ward (Bachelor) Grocers Assistant
Estimated birth year: abt 1876
Age: 24
Spouse: Alice Stevens (Spinster)
Spouse Age: 20
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 6 Aug 1900
Parish: St John's Wood St Mark
Borough: Westminster
Father Name: John Ward (Woodman)
Spouse Father: Frederick James Stevens (Chair Maker)
Register Type: Parish Register
Witnesses: Francis Ward and Evelyn Feasey


Alice Stevens in the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Alice Stevens
Gender: Female
Baptism Date: 1881
Baptism Place: Bledlow Ridge, Buckingham, England
Father: Frederick Stevens
Mother: Mary Ann

Births Dec 1880 (>99%)
STEVENS Alice Wycombe 3a 570

STEVENS, ALICE mmn EUSTACE
GRO Reference: 1880 D Quarter in WYCOMBE Volume 03A Page 570

((((A Sister....STEVENS, HILDA MAY mmn EUSTACE
GRO Reference: 1892 S Quarter in WYCOMBE Volume 03A Page 719))))

Surname mis-transcribed as "Word" on the 1901 census.....

Albert J Word in the 1901 England Census
Name: Albert J Word
Age: 24
Estimated birth year: abt 1877
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Male
Spouse: Alice Word
Birth Place: Pamber Heath, Hampshire, England
Civil Parish: Hampstead
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary Kilburn
County/Island: London
Country: England

Registration district: Hampstead
Sub-registration district: Hampstead

Household Members:
Name Age

Albert J Word 24 (Grocers Carman)
Alice Word 20 Bladlow Redge, Buckinghamshire
Frank Word 22 (Brother) Pamber Heath, Hampshire
Amelia Moreau 35 (Lodger)

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This might be Mary Agnes Moore's birth registration.....

??

Births Dec 1905 (>99%)
Moore Mary Agnes Kensington 1a 88

MOORE, MARY AGNES mmn COGHLAN
GRO Reference: 1905 D Quarter in KENSINGTON Volume 01A Page 88

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1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
30 Walmer Road North Kensington W, Kensington, London, England

Albert Moore Married - Male Gardener 47 1864 Eastbourns Sussex
Ellen Moore Married - Female Washer 45 1866 Marylebone London
Annie Moore Daughter - Female School 13 1898 Eastbourne Sussex
Margaret Moore Daughter - Female School 12 1899 Pimlico London
Rose Moore Daughter - Female - 8 1903 Whitechapel London
Mary Agnes Moore Daughter - Female - 5 1906 Kensington London
Edith Moore Daughter - Female - 2 1909 Kensington London


MOORE, EDITH mmn COUGHLEN
GRO Reference: 1909 M Quarter in KENSINGTON Volume 01A Page 142


1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
11, Queen Street, St Botolph (Without) Aldgate, Whitechapel, London, England

Albert Moore Head Married Male 36 1865 Carman Crawley, Sussex, England
Ellen Moore Wife Married Female 35 1866 - London, England
Annie Moore Daughter - Female 3 1898 - Sussex, England
Margaret Moore Daughter - Female 2 1899 - Pimlico, Middlesex, England


MOORE, ANNIE mmn COULAN
GRO Reference: 1897 J Quarter in EASTBOURNE Volume 02B Page 82

If i am on the right track........Ellen's surname has been transcribed as "Conlan" on the marriage registration.

Albert Moore in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915
Name: Albert Moore
Spouse: Ellen Conlan
Registration Year: 1896
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district: Steyning
Inferred County: Sussex
Volume: 2b
Page: 648

I think you will need to purhase a copy of the 1926 marriage certificate to confirm.....

Marriages Sep 1926 (>99%)
Moore Mary A Ward Amersham 3a 2521
Ward Albert L Moore Amersham 3a 2521

The best place to order certificates is online here......

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/

They cost £9.25

Prickles. ;o))

PM sent to Tina to let her know she has received replies.

Prickles ;o))

I have the disc for Bledlow......

The Stevens family :

Baptism 31 Oct 1880 Alice daughter of Frederick & Mary Ann STEVENS, Labourer

Marriage 29 Mar 1880 by Banns
Frederick STEVENS, aged 20, Bachelor of Bledlow Ridge, Chairmaker son of Thomas Stevens, Labourer
Mary Ann X EUSTACE, aged 19, Spinster of Bledlow Ridge daughter of John Eustace, Chairmaker
Witnesses John Stone Jane Smith


The records for Bledlow Ridge begin at the end of the 1860's. Bledlow Ridge came out of the parish of Bledlow - there are many records available online - right back to the 1500's but no sign of the 1850/60s. :-(

Hope this helps. Cx

I am pleased Tina put up a posting as I advised her by pm. She conntacted me this morning.

It was a good one was'nt it. Something to get your teeth into.

Mel

Thank you to everyone who has been replying to my thread. Sorry to sound dim but I don`t really know what all the names are - are they relatives of my father.
He was Albert Reginald Ward and his father was Leslie Ward and his mother was Mary.
I am a complete novice at this as you can tell!
I am also a technophobe which doesn`t help either :(

I apologise in advance if I am doing the wrong thing or writing in the wrong place

Hi, I have just been looking at the information again that you all kindly looked up and I can see that they are indeed relatives of my father. I shall take some time to collate the information and add it to my tree. Many thanks :-)

Hi, I have just been looking at the information again that you all kindly looked up and I can see that they are indeed relatives of my father. I shall take some time to collate the information and add it to my tree. Many thanks :-)

Hi Tina

Thank you for your reply.

Yes.....do take your time to digest all the information that has been found for you, then hopefully, all will become clear.

If you get stuck or can't figure something out........you can always get back to us on this thread.

This is a free site we all use to search for births, marriages and deaths beween September quarter of 1837 and approx 1973ish.

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Happy researching.......Prickles. :-)

I have sent you 2 PM's with attachments Tina.

Just click on the attachments to open them up.

Prickles. ;o))

Your Grt Gandparents.....Alfred John Ward and Alice Ward nee Stevens on the 1939 Register..........

Albert J Ward on the 1939 Register

Ward Household (5 People) 2 Breamar Cottage , Amersham R.D., Buckinghamshire, England

Albert J Ward 24 Apr 1876 Male Permanent Maintenance Repair Married 290 1
Alice Ward 29 Sep 1880 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 290 2
Frederick J Stevens 22 Mar 1860 Male Retired Married 290 3
Mary A Stevens 31 Mar 1862 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 290 4
Hilda M Hunt 27 Jul 1892 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 290 5

Frederick J Stevens and Mary A Stevens are Alice Ward nee Stevens parents.

Your Grt, Grt Grandparents deaths.........


Frederick James Stevens in the Web: Global, Gravestone Photograph Index, 1265-2014
Name: Frederick James Stevens
Birth Year: 1860
Burial Year: 1948
Burial Place: Bledlow Ridge, Buckinghamshire, England
Death Age: 88
Cemetery: St Paul
Relationship: husband of Mary Ann Stevens

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/cemetery.php?cemetery=2839&scr...


Mary Ann Stevens in the Web: Global, Gravestone Photograph Index, 1265-2014
Name: Mary Ann Stevens
Birth Year: 1862
Burial Year: 1942
Burial Place: Bledlow Ridge, Buckinghamshire, England
Death Age: 80
Cemetery: St Paul

http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/cemetery.php?cemetery=2839&scr...

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Hilda M Hunt is Alice's married sister......


Hilda May Hunt in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Hilda May Hunt
Birth Date: 27 Jul 1892
Date of Registration: Dec 1978
Age at Death: 86
Registration district: Wycombe
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Volume: 19
Page: 1215


STEVENS, HILDA MAY mmn EUSTACE
GRO Reference: 1892 S Quarter in WYCOMBE Volume 03A Page 719

Hilda May Hunt in the UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Name: Hilda May Hunt
Birth Date: 1892
Death Date: 1978
Cemetery: St Paul's Churchyard, Bledlow Ridge
Burial or Cremation Place: Bledlow, Wycombe District, Buckinghamshire, England

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=132761484&ref=acom

Hilda May's marriage to MR Hunt was her second marriage.

Her first marriage.......

Marriages Jun 1914 (>99%)
Bird Sidney J Stevens Wycombe 3a 1869
Stevens Hilda M Bird Wycombe 3a 1869

Her second marriage......

Marriages Mar 1924 (>99%)
Bird Hilda M Hunt Wycombe 3a 1289
Hunt Cyril L Bird Wycombe 3a 1289

Hilda's first husband........


Births Dec 1892 (>99%)
Bird Sidney John Wycombe 3a 672


Sidney John Bird in the UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
Name: Sidney John Bird
Residence: Bledlow Ridge, Bucks
Death Date: 16 Aug 1917
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: High Wycombe, Bucks
Rank: L Corporal
Regiment: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Battalion: 1st 4 Battalion
Regimental Number: 22969
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre


Sydney John Bird in the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929
Name: Sydney John Bird
Gender: Male
Death Date: 16 Aug 1917
Death Place: Belgium
Rank: Private
Widow: Hilda M
Regiment: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Regimental Number: 22969

Hilda's second husband....

Cyril Lyne Hunt in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
Name: Cyril Lyne Hunt
Registration Year: 1899
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Islington
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1b
Page: 271


Cyril Lyne Hunt in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Cyril Lyne Hunt
Birth Date: 1 Jul 1899
Date of Registration: Jun 1979
Age at Death: 79
Registration district: Wycombe
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Volume: 19
Page: 1218


Cyril Lyne Hunt in the UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Name: Cyril Lyne Hunt
Birth Date: 1900
Death Date: 1979
Cemetery: St Paul's Churchyard, Bledlow Ridge
Burial or Cremation Place: Bledlow, Wycombe District, Buckinghamshire, England
Has Bio?: N

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=132761483&ref=acom

Cyril on the 1939 Register.....

5 Heywood Road , Harrogate M.B., Yorkshire (West Riding), England

Cyril L Hunt 01 Jul 1899 Male Clerk Higher Grade Money Order Department G P O Married 184 2

I have just discovered that Albert john Ward and Alice Stevens had another son born in 1911.....

Births Jun 1911 (>99%)
Ward Reginald F Amersham 3a 931

WARD, REGINALD FRANCIS STEVENS Order
GRO Reference: 1911 J Quarter in AMERSHAM Volume 03A Page 931

Reginald Francis Ward in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Birth Date: 8 Apr 1911
Date of Registration: Oct 1996
Age at Death: 85
Registration district: Dacorum
Inferred County: Hertfordshire
Register Number: A39
District and Subdistrict: 5301A
Entry Number: 36


Reginald Francis Ward in the UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Name: Reginald Francis Ward
Birth Date: Apr 1911
Death Date: 27 Oct 1996
Cemetery: Chilterns Crematorium
Burial or Cremation Place: Amersham, Chiltern District, Buckinghamshire, England
Has Bio?: Y

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=143658303&ref=acom

Frederick married in 1933.....

Reginald F Ward in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Name: Reginald F Ward
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1933
Registration district: Amersham
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Spouse: Joyce L Ivory
Volume Number: 3a
Page Number: 2583



Joyce Lilian Ward in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Joyce Lilian Ward
Birth Date: 15 Feb 1914
Date of Registration: Mar 1970
Age at Death: 56
Registration district: Amersham
Inferred County: Buckinghamshire
Volume: 6a
Page: 873



Joyce Lilian Ward in the UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Name: Joyce Lilian Ward
Birth Date: 1914
Death Date: 25 Mar 1970
Cemetery: Chilterns Crematorium
Burial or Cremation Place: Amersham, Chiltern District, Buckinghamshire, England
Has Bio?: Y

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=144141187&ref=acom