Genealogy Chat

I want to thank you all, Andy, Heidi, MGNV, Ozibird, Jill, Christine and anybody I may have missed.

Great news...I was today contacted by a long lost cousin and now begins the task of catching up with dozens of relatives on my father's side that I never knew existed.

Thanks to you all again
Paul

Andy
Can you tell me where you found the entry for Rosa Bennett's death in 1936?

There is no way you can see what's on a cert before you buy it. However, the info on a marr cert is identical to the parish register (if the marr took place in a church), and you can view parish registers, although they record baptisms not births, and burial services, not deaths. Older registers are usually found at the county records office, but I don't know that in this specific case.

You can buy certs from the GRO or the local RO. Sometimes the local ROs are more helpful over the phone.

http://www.bmsgh.org/staffsbmd/sitemap.html

There is no online entry for the 1908 marr to Wm Wright, but none of the non-conformist Burton on T churches have been indexed yet, nor have any births.

Staffordshire Marriage indexes for the years: 1932
Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference
BENNETT William WRIGHT Rosa Burton-upon-Trent East Staffordshire B1RO/54/070.
Civil Marriages
Registration District Start of Marriages End of Marriages Registers at Code Years Indexed
Burton-upon-Trent 1837 East Staffordshire B1RO 1837-1936

[Looks like a registers office marriage to me, although it could be an RC marr]

East Staffs Register office
57-60 High Street
Burton on Trent
Staffs
DE14 1JS
UK
Telephone 01283 538701

Wow,you guys have been busy.so what you are thinking is that my Grandmother Rose (or Rosa) perks married first a man name Wright in 1908 and then married William Bennett (my Grandfather) in 1932 the year my father was born.
Rosa died in 1936 which actually ties with what I think I know.
Is there any way that I can view a birth certificate before I buy a copy as this is becoming quite expensive.
Thanks all for your help and keep it coming, i can't thank you enough.
Paul

There is a death for a Rosa Bennett aged 45 in Burton area AMJ 1936.
There is also a marriage for William Bennett and Rosa Wright in Burton area AMJ 1932.

1901 census

Rose Perks
Age: 9
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Rose
Gender: Female
Where born: Burton, Staffordshire, England

Civil Parish: Horninglow
Ecclesiastical parish: Burton upon Trent St Paul
County/Island: Staffordshire
Country: England

Registration district: Burton upon Trent
Sub registration district: Burton upon Trent
ED, institution, or vessel: 30
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 150
Household Members: Name Age
Arthur Perks 23
John Perks 47
John Perks 20
Minnie Perks 6
Rose Perks 44
Rose Perks 9

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 2645; Folio: 81; Page: 24.

marriage?

Rosa Victoria Perks/William Arthur Wright
Year of Registration: 1908
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Burton Upon Trent
County: Derbyshire, Staffordshire
Volume: 6b
Page: 665

Could fit - could be completely wrong :-))))

Andy

Have you actually got your father's birth cert?

If so it should have a previous married name for Rose if she had been married before.

Christine

It may also be worth looking a few years ahead - just in case they married after your father was born. If one of them had been previously married they may have had to wait for a divorce etc.

Jill

You will have to search the full index image by image, quarter by quarter, as the partial (freeBMD) index has very few transcriptions of anything from that time - often you can't even find any Smith.

Have you found your father's birth on the full index? If so what is the mother's maiden name on that? If it's Perks (or whatever it is) start looking for other Bennett/Perks back from his birth date. You should get an idea of when the marriage took place from that.

Looking for the marriage (full index) - check all the Bennetts that are suitable to see if it's a Rose Whatever, or a Rosemary or a Roslyn, anything that fit's the bill.

Ozi.

What would be the next step then Suzi??

Perhaps Rose was previously married and although she gives her maiden name on birth cert, her marriage to William may be in another name?

Suzanne

I have looked at all records of marriage for Rose Perks from 1932 when my father was born back to 1912 and can find no trace of William Bennett/Rose Perks.
Does anyone have any other advice

Paul, you said you have an ancestry sub? In which case it would cost nothing on top of your sub to search through the years.

Any help gratefully received.

What is the cheapest way to search through so many marriage records?

No sorry, my father died in 1976 unfortunately which means details are really sketchy.
I believe that my grandmother may have passed away when he was around 4 years old and his father would have placed him in a home before joining the Army....would be possibly around 1936 therefore.

Any idea if the sisters were older or younger?

I do Ozbird

Where was he born Paul.

Do you have access to Ancestry? If so you can go to the full marriage index & search backwards from 1932 for the person with the least common name. Luckily the surnames of both partners are on the index by that time.

Ozi.