Genealogy Chat

That's the census info I matched up with that birth for Annie:

Births Mar 1874
Bailey Annie Elizabeth Alcester 6d 642

It can just be useful to have exact DOBs.

You knew that the two children were registered as both Bailey and Blackwell? Was Nancy?

Nope.

Births Sep 1897
Blackwell Nancy Warwick 6d 656

Janey --

You have Nancy's birth cert - what is her exact date of birth?

Nancy's is the only birth cert I have for the Baileys - I will apply for the other 2 I think.

I have to own up and say I did not know they were registered in both names as they were living with Arthur Blackwell from 1891 and he died in 1910.

Edit On the 1901 census they are living together not 1891, sorry
Thanks Janey!

Sorry I did list it earlier :-((


Nancy Blackwell 05 Aug 1897 Eagle Street, Leamington

Both Arthur and Annie are on the birth cert

Tsk, no you didn't. Everything but the date. ;)

Name: Nancy Blackwell
Birth Date: 5 Aug 1897
Death Registration Month/Year: Sep 1992
Age at death (estimated): 95
Registration district: Cheltenham
Inferred County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 22
Page: 1427

Or did you have that??

I have seen this, but was unsure that she and the other children would be under this name anymore.

I guessed I was searching for a marriage for the mother and then the kids would be Bailey or take the new name

Well ... 1915 to 1935, there is one marriage of a Nancy to a Blackwell showing at FreeBMD. (Ancestry won't search by given name for one spouse + surname for the other.)

Nancy V Dale to Vernon Blackwell in Manchester, 1925.

She was Nancy Valentine Dale born in Chorlton, 1906, died in Bermondsey, 1961, I'd say.

So, given the perfect match on the name and birthdate in that death record, I'm thinking there's little doubt.

There could be a family member as informant on the certificate. Or, with the exact date and place of birth from the certificate, you could try the local library for a published obituary in newspaper archives, hoping to find family members named.

By the time the children would have married, I think there is less likelihood they would have done it under an assumed (stepfather's) surname, if their mother did remarry, than maybe in an earlier era or if they had been toddlers when she remarried.

Thanks Janey, I will order the death cert and see if that can give any clues

Thanks again, it has been a nightmare trying to find them all

C'mon back and let us know, when it comes!

I will do, thanks Janey


Hugs to you as I know you love em ;-))