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Still interesting though.

It might help someone.

You’ve added to a 14 year old thread. The OP is no longer a member.

I have been researching the Maughan family and here are Susan Maughan's details (she took Susan as her professional name):

Marian Susan Maughan b 1 Jul 1938 Durham NW, the daughter of David Maughan & Margaret nee Wharton; mar 1. Mar Q 1965 to Nicholas Teller Hampstead district; 2. Sep Q 1972 to Peter K Weinbaum at St Marylebone district, child Gregory Paul Weinbaum b Jun Q 1973 Hampstead district, then 2. Dec Q 2000 to Nicholas E Leigh at Eastbourne, Sussex.

Hope this helps.
Neil

Hi
I am not on Ancestry birth records either 1944. my cousins are but not me.

I am however on Find my Past birth records.

Ancestry ????? Not as good as they could be.

Thats interesting Hawthorn and solves the question, thanks

Yes that's what I put Hawthorn......glad you got correct info from club secretary. :O)

I have just been contacted by a member who in turn has been in touch with the Secretary of Castleside Social club near Consett. This club was managed by Susan Maughan's parents in the 1940's-1950's.

The secretary put a request for information about Susan Maughan on the notice board.

One of the club's members was in the same school year as Susan Maughan and said she was born in 1938. So . . . all the internet references about her birthdate as 1942 are wrong !

"Shirley i'm getting the hang of it" & "Mau at the Coast" - you were both correct.

Susan Maughan's birth is registered simply as Marian Maughan, she possibly used Susan as a stage name.

According to Ancestry every name has been transcribed from all GRO indexes - see below, copied & pasted from their web-site.

" . . . . we’ve taken the bold step of commissioning an "every name" transcript of all GRO indexes from 1916 – 2005. The transcribed Birth index took 400,000 man-hours (that’s 187 years!) to transcribe and has added almost 62.8 million extra records to the 71 million already made available through the partnership with FreeBMD. And this is the only place online where they’re available all in one place and fully searchable by name. "

If every name has been transcribed - Marion Susan Maughan born 1 July 1942, Consett, County Durham as per Wilkipedia and as every other internet reference states - should be there.

I have ordered a GRO copy certificate, I don't know why I have gone to this length but I have ! ! ! !

Shirley - The Maughan born in 1938 Durham NW is not only the wrong year but the christian name is spelt Marian rather than Marion !

Shirley . . . . . . I wonder, it could well be. It's not unknown for someone to say they were younger than they actually were!

Another celebrity I couldn't find the birth of was the "Carry On" star, Charles Hawtrey. Wilkipedia says he was born George Frederick Joffre Hartree 30 November 1914 . . . . . I couldn't find it !

The problem with the internet is it only takes one person to get a fact wrong and everybody afterwards copies it without ever bothering to check it out.

Wonder if this is her right qtr wrong year!
Name: Marian Maughan
Mother's Maiden Surname: Wharton
Date of Registration: Jul Aug Sep 1938
Registration district: Durham N W
Registration county: Durham
Volume Number: 10a
Page Number: 434

reg district covers Consett

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Susan Maughan (born Marion Susan Maughan, 1 July 1942, Consett, County Durham, England) is a British singer who released a series of reasonably successful singles in the 1960s.
Her most famous, and successful, song is “Bobby’s Girl”, which reached number three in the UK Singles Chart at Christmas time in 1962. The recording was a cover of Marcie Blane’s U.S. original. Maughan also sang the title song of the second Charles Vine low budget superspy film Where the Bullets Fly (1966).

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I know FreeBMD is not complete but is there any way of finding out if Ancestry is complete from 1916 - 2005?

If Ancestry IS complete between these years why isn't this birth (& possibly others) not there?

Free BMD has some births in 1947.

update ..... only about 20% of births have been transcribed for 1942 on freebmd



so very little hope of finding it on there I would think




sylvia

might be different


they have been transcribed differently

.... ancestry did the 1916 - 2005 bmds themselves,

and volunteers on freebmd are still working on the records upto 1983.


I hadn't thought freebmd were past about 1940 so id din't check on there



sylvia

It was free BMD I looked at, never thought it might be on ancestry.

Is 1942 FreeBMD exactly the same as 1942 on Ancestry . . . . not complete?

i didnt remeber the singers name, but i lobve the song,
my daughter loves that kinda music too

bobbys girl,

Sorry, never thought to say, I looked on freeBMD