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thanks Janey glad you got my pm, will say thankyou both ways including on here next time.

thanks to one and all

Well ... 2007. And I was already oooold then. ;)

My apologies to leesle again.

(When I reply by PM these days, I always remember to put a link to the thread, and put the surname(s) in question in the subject line, so I'll know what on earth the messages were about if I have to check back to them in future!)

I agree with Janey, unless it is sensitive information best to keep it to the boards - lot easier to follow! Janey - I can't believe you've only been doing this since 2008, thought you'd been around for decades! (I'll duck now before she throws something at me).

Leesle, look forwarding to hearing back from you when you've got the certificates, as Choccy says, an eventful morning! And an interesting one!

Mea culpa! I didn't find any record of PMs because I didn't check under the name showing on them. Yup, leesle sent me a PM a while after I posted here.

And what did I say when I replied? ;)

"A tip for future ref -- it's generally much appreciated if you reply by posting in your thread rather than by private message. New posts in a thread show up in the "My threads" list of anyone who posted in it -- the link to click over on the left of the Trying to Find board -- but with private messages we have to go hunting up the thread out of the dozens many of us will have posted in since then."

Not to mention the hundreds -- thousands?? -- we've posted in (and got PMs about) since Feb 2008!

I see in 2009 you were answering by PM about something else ... but in that case there was very good reason. ;)

Still a tip, though -- others like to see that help offered has been noticed, so always wise to reply in the thread!

I just looked back through all my sent messages, and I did send you a thankyou message on 12.2.2008, I can send you a copy if you like.

Janey I am really surprised if I didnt thankyou thats not my personality at all, are you sure I didnt pm as I have just done all the above people as well.

I was very new to it in 2008 as you can see by my first message, so incase I didnt pm you at the time, many many thanks

Please do come back and let us know about the certificates - it was an eventful morning wasn't it !

Happy to have been of help.

How nice to see a thread this old resurrected instead of a new one started. One from my very early days on the boards.

It seems to have moved well on and I'm not going to read all four pages to see whether what I did at the beginning was useful. I think I'd left off after going that far to wait for a response. That didn't come. If it had, who knows how far we might have got three years ago? I guess without the 1911 yet, not so far.

Must say I'm rather surprised that I never got a shred of acknowledgement at the time, in the thread or by PM, and now in the post on the success stories board.

thanks I might be back when mables birth cert arrives, or just as a matter of interest the eliza dunn/gee marriage and see what she has put!!

That is the best thing about this site, people trying to help each other - I've had lots of help in the past for which I'm eternally grateful! And it's good fun trying to unravel a mystery.

You know where to come if you need more help in the future.

Ive put a thankyou on the success boards for you all, so kind of strangers to spend so much of their time to help. thanks once again

Hi

interesting thought flip, but apparently the village consists of about eight houses, I think its still him, but to be fair to eliza her husband was never there and living with another woman at one point.

would John William Gee really call mable and vernon step children if they were his? goodness knows, when the births certs arrive we still wont know only DNA could tell us that one. thanks

Another thought - we are assuming William Gill mentioned in the divorce is the same person as John William Gee, could they be different people?

yes I would say so.

an amazing saturday mornings journey.

thanks to everyone xxx

It did say step-son & step-daughter on one of the census, not sure whether it was 1901 or 1911 though.

You may never know their parentage for certain, even with a birth cert. If the mother was married, she could have registered her husband as the father without his presence. Think, going by the birth dates though it was unlikely to be John Dunn though.

ah yes thanks for that, love thy neighbour.

I could be wrong, and I dont know what census it was on, but when I originally found this I thought it said mable and vernon step dau and step son. But it was years ago I found that.

I will buy their birth certs, but if John william Gee wasnt present when mable or vernon were registered it will just give a dash where father is wont it? and then I suppose we will never know for certain.

John Gee
Age 22
Estimated Year of Birth 1869
Relationship to Head of Household Servant
Occupation Farm Servant
Address Farm House, South Street
District Driffield, Bainton
Parish Middleton
Administrative County Yorkshire (East Riding)
Birth Place Lund
Birth County Yorkshire

Name on original is John William Gee, so it doesn't look like he was previously married.

Note the street address - same street as Eliza & her parents in 1891 census!

thanks for that 1911 census, yes thats them, my husbands grandad was percy gee.

you can see the confusion with the children , some being dunn and some being gee and yet their years of birth.

two had died?? wonder if she has just written off elsie may?

I know this is taking up so much of your time, but we do appreciate it

thought you'd actually found a marriage in Scotland !

Percy Gee
Relationship to Head of Household Son
Gender M
Age 7
Estimated Year of Birth 1904
Occupation Juvenile
Employed N
Working at Home N
Place of Birth Yorkshire Middleton
Nationality British
Enumerator Information
Address Middleton On The Wolds Driffield Yorkshire
Parish Middleton On The Wolds
Type of Building Private House
Number of Rooms 6
Inhabited Y
Reference RG14PN28871 RG78PN1660 RD525 SD3 ED2 SN64
Administrative County Yorkshire (East Riding)
Registration District Driffield
Registration Sub District Bainton
Enumeration District 2

John William Gee 42 bricklayer labourer born Lund
Eliza Anne 42 Middleton
Vernon Dunn 17
Mabel Anne 14
Harry Gee 12
Richard Gee 11
Percy Gee 7

all children born Middleton. Original states Eliza married 12 years, 3 children all living. But, this originally said 7 children, 2 have died.