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That's great Melanie, fingers crossed that you will hear from Shirley.
Sorry about her parents.

hi also it was Reggie and Jean but found out uncle reggie passed away 2015 and auntie jean passed away last year im quite devastated really as would have loved to seen them ,very saddened but i can speak to shirley hopefully she can tell me more but thank you all very much for your help x

hi also it was Reggie and Jean but found out uncle reggie passed away 2015 and auntie jean passed away last year im quite devastated really as would have loved to seen them ,very saddened but i can speak to shirley hopefully she can tell me more but thank you all very much for your help x

Hi everyone

just to let you all know a lady found shirley for me i thought her name was Rouce but was Thurston woolnough ,i couldnt rememeber as its been years ,but i have sent her a message so hopefully shes the one ,thank you for those who helped x

Googling Shirley brings up British dressage results. Lives with partner on current Electoral register in Buckinghamshire.

Well done, Choccy!
That seems convincing.

Shirley is at a Buckinghamshire address in 2022, per the ER on GR -

See Electoral Rolls under "search" at top right of this page.
I'll PM address to Melanie - with suitable warnings in case that's not "her" Shirley..

Not Rouse but seems to fit -

Reginald F Thurston-Woolnough married Jean M Matthewson (maybe where 'Matty' comes from) in 1962.
Birth of a Shirley in right quarter of 1968.

Jean (of Scarning) died in 27th April 2022 wife of the late Reg and loving mum of Shirley

(Eastern Daily Press, 19th July 2022)

As the Rouse/Clay family doesn't seem to be the correct one, the only other things I can think of are:

1. perhaps Reggie and Jean weren't married, or Shirley had been born before they married, and her birth was registered under her mother's surname.

2. perhaps Shirley was adopted, and her birth registered under another name.

3. perhaps "Shirley" was a pet name, and her official name was something else.

That's already been mentioned.

That couple were living in Worcester from at least 2002 until at least 2013, per ER.

The husband probably died in 2019.

ROUSE, JOHN WILLIAM 1939
GRO Reference: DOR Q1/2019 in WORCESTERSHIRE (527-1C) Entry Number 518679887

Even if Reggie and Jean/Matty were nicknames, it seems unlikely that this is the couple whose daughter Melanie's looking for.

They had two other children - a son in 1966 and another daughter in 1971.

It’s not a Reggie and Jean !

Marriages Dec 1965
CLAY CHRISTINE G ROUSE WORCESTER 9D 670
ROUSE JOHN W CLAY WORCESTER 9D 670

First name(s) Shirley Ann
Last name Rouse
Birth quarter 2
Birth year 1968
Mother's maiden name Clay
District Worcester
County Worcestershire

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/

Sorry, those records seem to be missing from Find My Past at the moment.

Scarning Norfolk

Shirley was Jean and reggies daughter Shirley was born 21st May 1968 they lived in scarring Norfolk, I don't think Jean and reggie r still alive as its been alot of years since I saw them but Shirley loved horses she be 54 .....

Melanie was probably born June quarter 1968.

However, the only Shirley Rouse born in that quarter had parents John W and Christine G.

It doesn't mean they weren't her parents.

I'm now looking at 1968 2Q for Goddard/Barker. Like wise, there is Shirley Rouse 1968 2Q. which fits with there being a one week gap so another possibility. If only the OP had given such vital information as year of birth for Shirley.
I'm thinking that Norfolk is a bit of a red herring.

Rosemary and Neville didn't marry until 1965.

So if Shirley is a week older than Melanie . . . . . . ??

Just trying to make this a bit easier for those of us not there at the time.

Looking for Shirley Rouse > parents Jean and 'Reggie' Rouse.

Jean and 'Reggie' Rouse. > OP's godparents

Jean and OPs mum were best friends

Shirley, poss born 1955 2Q is a week older than OP
Two 1968 records also fit.

OPs mother Rosemary Barker later Bird, married Neville Goddard then ? Jones.
Rosemary passed in 1999.

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_chat/thread/1401044

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