Genealogy Chat

Doh... Sorry about the Harding mistake... brain on overload trying to sort out my family thoughts and muddling with your's. Advice still the same though. Gwyn

Kerry, Have pm'd you. Deb:)

nudging in case some one can help

Thanks for the reply but I think you meant Mrs E Waring.(not Harding) That would be fantastic if I could find this information out.

Any of the marriages could be relevant, as the lady in question may have remarried...to Mr Harding. Gwyn

As you have an address for E. Harding it should be possible to find her in an electoral list for that year. You would hopefully find her given name and that of her husband. I realise that you are overseas but I remember someone on these boards was helped by e mailing direct to the main library for the address area. The lists are compiled by address rather than surname, so a librarian....or a willing GR member may be able to do the search of the given address. Gwyn

Today I asked my newly found cousin in America and she thinks that it was Ethel Freeman who married Joe Waring. But has no idea where or when. My grandmother Ellen married in Amersham, Bucks in 1916 which is where the family lived on the 1901 Census. Ethel's birth was registered in Chesham in the March Qtr of 1890 which is where the family was living on the 1891 Census. I guess it could be possible that the surname was spelt differntly but I haven't had any luck finding a marriage under Waring yet. Does anyone know which registration district Chorleywood would come under? Perhaps I can search for a Waring child born to with MMN Freeman and get the birth cert to find out for sure.

Good Luck and if you need any more quarters looking for let me know. MInd you, I'm off now, probably until tomorrow night.

Well I will trawl away and see what I can find. Sometimes it seems you find things when you least expect it.

Well, those marriages that I found may not be the right ones. Especially Ethel, who wasn't Amersham. I think Family Relatives would definitely be your easiest route when it is back on line.

Thanks once again. This is only an new search for this aunt and I had hoped it would tuun out to be Ethel or Elizabeth as the address given for her was Chorleywood and it isn't that far from Amersham. This would also make it a direct relative rather than a connection.

I've just had a look and Family Relatives isn't back up and running yet or that would have been the best site to find the connection, because of the years that you need to search. It should be back soon.

I suppose the Elizabeth marriage I found could be the sister Elizabeth. There is a marriage in Sept 1914 for an Ethel R S Freeman to George R Allen Ref Eton, which is in Buckinghamshire and this could be Ethel. Which would leave the step sister Eleanor. Because of her age though you would probably need to trawl for her marriage. There is no sign on Free BMD.

Thanks for searching those quaters for me Chrissie. I am trying to work out who the 'Mrs E Waring (aunt)' that my father put as his next of kin on army enlistment papers in 1936. His mother's maiden name was Freeman and she had two sisters whose first names were Elizabeth (born 1883) and Ethel born 1890. Failing that his stepfather had a sister Eleanor Marian Symes who was 5 years old on the 1901 census. I guess I must keep searching.

Hi Kerry I have searched find my past for those missing quarters but nothing that looks likely. I suppose you are sure that she married a Waring? There is a marriage on free BMD in March qtr 1907 in Amersham of an Elizabeth Harriet Freeman but she seems to have married either Henry James Goodey or Ernest Owen Payne. I checked for a matching mariage of a Waring on find my past but there isn't one. Chrissie

I am searching for a marriage between Ethel or Elizabeth Freeman to Waring possibly taking place in the district of amersham. I can't get results for any of those quarters. For either surnames.

Hi Kerry, According to the freeBMD website (www.freebmd.org.uk) from which Ancestry gets its transcribed index, the 1912 June quarter marriages have been fully transcribed, so your couple should be there. Oddly, Ancestry only seems to have the actual images for surnames beginning with A and a handful of B's for that quarter - none of the other images are available. Not that this should affect your search, it just seems a bit strange! :-) Chris

What name are your looking for, I've got all four quarters on 1909 1910 & 1912 for the name I just put in Yours is probably there, you just have to go all round the houses to find it Sam

The March Qtr 1910 appears to be missing as well :-( Plus the Sept Qtr 1909 :-(((

doesnt seem to have been digitised. have you tried 'find my past' website just had alook on name Smith,thought that one more likely ,and the June qtr comes up. .Means buying units tho.