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http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/living_relatives/thread/1338107

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Hi there

Thanks a million for your replies Fairthorn and Jax. I have done what you said re the family trees. I have found 6 entries, and have emailed all of them.

Is there anything more I can be doing at this moment?

What other facilities to I have now I am on the Standard Plan?

Your advice is gratefully received.

Laura :-D

You cannot...they have to give you permission

Just go to 'Search all members trees'

put in the name John Nixon 1947...click on find out more next to his name and send a message...he may or may not be the correct person but you can only ask

The account is quite old 10 years ish....so he may not still be active but it is worth a try

Also, how do I access this 'GR Family Tree'. Thanks

You need to 'Search the trees' the records you are finding are just the birth registrations

Look for a John 1947 Chester as mentioned by Fairthorn

Search

All members trees

Hi Fairthorn

Thanks for your reply. This is all new to me, so please bear with me and my questions.

To answer your question, yes, I found our birth mother back in 2011. She had passed in 2000.

Yes we have the same Mum.

Now, for the questions...

I have gone into the search section, and have saved birth certs for John Nixon's around 1945-1949. There are 14 in total for the Cheshire area. Now I have these records saved, how can they help me?

Also, am I able to send messaged to these saved people?

I have subscribed with the Standard plan, what can I do with this to help me with my search?

Thank you very much, Laura :-)

Was your birth mother found ???


PS HALF-SISTER if you have the same mum

There is a JOHN on GR family tree 1947 Chester

The birth is John L
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oops, it was August 2013 that you helped Karen find me!!!

Hello there

My name is Laura Brown. I am replying to this post because you helped Karen Thomas (my step sister) find me back in Aug 2011!!! So thank you so much all of you who helped. I have been looking for Karen since 1997!!!

Now, due to the fact that Karen was successful with your help, I am hoping you can all help me to find my biological father. I have very little to go on though.

Name:- John Nixon
Age when with my biological Mum:- 25 in 1972
Estimated D.O.B.:- 1947
Living in;- Chester, Cheshire area
My biological Mum:- Yvonne Mary Whiteside
Job:- on birth cert it says 'labourer', but I did some research back in the 1990's and maybe he went into the pub trade in Chester, but not sure.

Anyway, that's all the information I have at the moment. It probably won't be enough, but I would appreciate any advice you can give me.

Thank you in advance
Laura Brown :-)

If she was born in 1942. what name was she registered as ...it wasn't Yvonne Whiteside

Edit - Unless of course she wasn't born in England or Wales?

Thanks for all your help.
I have learnt that my mother was born in 1942 and her father was a John Michael Whiteside.

how about another in 1987

on 192.com together in Chesterfield






:-)

Have you checked out the remarriage in 1982? She married under the names of Whiteside and Smith in Congleton /Crewe

If this marriage is correct, her husband was still in Crewe on 2012 ER

Added: the person in the phone directory with the same initials was NOT her husband - wrong post code.

Not that birth, Mike....already proved to be wrong, by marriage cert

Karen has no firm idea about where her mother was born..............the info in her 'researching' box is guesswork

This one ?


Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1944
WHITESIDE Yvonne - Garstang Preston - MULLINER


looks like father was Harold though not John

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1329917

Just for ref in case someone else is looking , this one that I considered, has been ruled out, as I have found another incoming passenger list, which puts her with her siblings and father ( John Patrick Whiteside) returning to Hoole,Chester.



UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 about Yvonne Whiteside
Name: Yvonne Whiteside
Birth Date: abt 1942
Age: 5
Port of Departure: Port Said, Egypt
Arrival Date: 12 May 1947
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ship Name: Mataroa
Search Ship Database: View the 'Mataroa' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Ltd
Official Number: 144814

I have PMd Karen Reggie, will ask her to add any further details on here and will ( if it's not the death already found)) add what I have eliminated thus far.

I have already checked for births to a John M Whiteside ( as per cert) marriage on Freebmd and found no trace of an Yvonne born to the only possible marriage in UK.