Find Ancestors

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Quick Search

Single word search

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

20yr search over (or is it)

Page 0 + 1 of 3

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. »
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Quoy

Quoy Report 26 Jan 2008 12:15

I have been looking for my husbands, granfathers, death for 20yrs
Ronald Frederick William Holding b15th March 1894
Poplar London
married Olive Anderson 27th Jan 1912 Chorlton Manchester

I am sure he must be dead by now but I do not know when or where

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 26 Jan 2008 12:21

Where have you looked?

Have you viewed the images on either findmypast or Ancestry? If so, which years have you searched?

When was his youngest child born?

Have you found Olive's death?

Reg

Joan

Joan Report 26 Jan 2008 13:56

Is this Ronald and his family in 1901?

1901 England Census
about Ronald Holding
Name: Ronald Holding
Age: 7
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1894
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Ronald
Mother's Name: Fanny
Gender: Male
Where born: Poplar, London, England

Civil Parish: West Ham
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
County/Island: Essex
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: West Ham
Sub-registration district: Canning Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 48
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 20
Household Members: Name Age
Doris Holding 4
Edith Holding 12
Fanny Holding 36
Laura Holding 1
Nancy Holding 10
Ronald Holding 38
Ronald Holding 7


KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 26 Jan 2008 14:01

Without knowing when he was last known to be alive (at a child's wedding etc.) then it is a massive task to check each qtr. of each year from 1901 until when he would have been about 100. It can be done (especially if his death is recorded with both his middle names), but it will be a slow process.

Kath. x

Vivian

Vivian Report 26 Jan 2008 14:18

Re birth of their children try FreeBMD which has an ever increasing amount of data on post 1910 births. Remember to enter mother's maiden name - you might find one or two leads.

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 26 Jan 2008 14:31

There are these Holding births where the mother's maiden name is Anderson. Are any of these in your family do you think?:-

Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Births Jun 1913 (>99%)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Holding Olive E Anderson W.Derby 8b 973

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Births Sep 1915 (>99%)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Holding Phyllis E Anderson Birkenhead 8a 910

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Births Jun 1920 (99%)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Holding Nancy W Anderson Toxteth P. 8b 469

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Births Dec 1920 (98%)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Holding Agnes J Anderson Chorlton 8c 1514

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Births Dec 1924 (52%)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Holding Lillian Anderson W. Derby 8b 1108


Kath. x

Quoy

Quoy Report 26 Jan 2008 16:47

thanks everyone
I Have Ronalds family back to 1694 and forwards to
now. Ihave all the births and 85% of the deaths . We know he was alive and living in London 1935ish.
I checked the death register 4or 5 times from 1920 onwards.There are 2 things I can think of 1. he changed his name . 2 he left the country any suggestions at all will be more than welcome.
Yes that is him in the 1901
Quoy

Vivian

Vivian Report 26 Jan 2008 17:28

Ancestry has:

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Immigration & Emigration
Name: R F W Holding
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1893
Port of Arrival: New York, New York

Name: Olive M Holding
Birth: year
Departure: location
Arrival: date - New York, New York

I don't have a subscription to this part of Ancestry. I think they do a pay to view.

Quoy

Quoy Report 27 Jan 2008 06:39

Thanks Vivian

you can look at these records for free if you go onto the Ellis Island web site. That was Ronald in 1917 as a crew member. thanks again

Quoy

Quoy Report 23 Sep 2010 07:35

still looking
1942 death certificate for Ronalds wife say's widow ,so my time frame is now
1930's to 1942 but ,he could have just run off and his children believed he had died

Kay????

Kay???? Report 23 Sep 2010 09:16

Quoy~

Did you see this marriage,

1950 Hampstead Mid/sex

Ronald F W Holding-Woodward

Spouse--Emily G Woodward.

could he have grafted Emilys surname onto his?


back then after 7 years he could have been declared dead.

Quoy

Quoy Report 23 Sep 2010 18:51

Kay
what can I say but you little beauty the first lead I have had .I will follow it up now

Thank you sooo much

Moody Blue

Moody Blue Report 23 Sep 2010 19:16

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
about Emily Gertrude Holding-Woodward
Name: Emily Gertrude Holding-Woodward
Birth Date: 15 Dec 1891
Death Registration Month/Year: Jul-Aug-Sep 1972
Registration district: Lewisham
Inferred County: London
Volume: 5d
Page: 694

death also registered as:-


England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
about Emily Gertrude Woodward
Name: Emily Gertrude Woodward
Birth Date: 15 Dec 1891
Death Registration Month/Year: 1972
Registration district: Lewisham
Inferred County: London
Volume: 5d
Page: 691 should read 694

.

Quoy

Quoy Report 23 Sep 2010 19:35

Omg Moody Blue
thank you

Quoy

Quoy Report 24 Sep 2010 06:06

really struggling to find Ronalds death,have sent off for marriage and death certificate for Emily Gertrude.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 24 Sep 2010 06:38

Quoy

you might get a hint when Emily's birth certificate arrives ................... if it say widow or not


sylvia

Quoy

Quoy Report 24 Sep 2010 06:55

Sylvia
It's the waiting ,I am a very patient person ,but Ron has led me such a dance over these past years. Half of me wants to find him NOW but the other half is saying no.
What do I do when the biggest wall in my search comes down.
Quoy

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 24 Sep 2010 06:58

hmmmmmmmmmmmm


get bored, and then find another one??????????????




sylvia

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 24 Sep 2010 21:45

Quoy

I have a suugestion as to how you can occupy yourself when you have this problem all solved


want to start on my John Cadd??


He married Catherine / Katherine Mason / Masson 14 December 1741 in Edgecot, Buckinghamshire

Catherine's family has been traced back by others using the parish records to ca 1540

No-one but no-one can trace John any further back!


It is assumed that he was born in 1720 in Edgecot ..... although one familysearch record has him born in 1729. Methinks that is a little late!

He was buried on 22 February 1800, in Hillesden, a neighbouring village.


There was once a One Name Study Group on the Cadds ...... and they didn't get anywhere either!

People have been working on this since at least the 1980s.



:)))))

Quoy

Quoy Report 25 Sep 2010 09:36

The only thing I have found so far on the name Cadd is in the Parish Marriage Register of Thornton Buckinghamshire

Robert Warner servant and Frances Cadd of Hillesden Jan 1783

I also found these
Richard Cade of High Barnard to Ann Parish 3rd Sep 1660
Nathaniel Caddy of Taploe 1734

and I thought you might find this interesting
29th Infantry Battalion, Nominal Roll 1915 (May 20, 1915)

http://www.archive.org/details/CEF_29thBn_1915