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PORTER FAMILY

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patchem

patchem Report 28 Sep 2016 06:59

If all the children were born in Scotland, we need scotlandspeople website to be back up to look at birth information.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 27 Sep 2016 23:04

PM from Ann:


All the info you have is correct David's marriage to Jessie and his death in 1984.From Greenock they went straight to London.i dont know any birth dates of the family but at a guess the two youngest were born between 1952 and 54. that would be Alex and Jessie I know was the youngest.

Tthanks Ann

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 18 Sep 2016 22:42

This could be him in 1966:

David J Porter
in the British Phone Books, 1880-1984
Name: David J Porter
Exchange: MARytand
Directory Title: London Surnames L - R
Publication Year: 1966
Directory County: London
Page Number: 2598


Address: 131 Harrow Road, E11

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 18 Sep 2016 22:41

David died in London - so do you mean the family went abroad and then came back, or just that they left Greenock, as Patchem has also asked?

David Jeffers Porter
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: David Jeffers Porter
Birth Date: 5 Mar 1917
Date of Registration: Dec 1984
Age at Death: 67
Registration district: Camden
Inferred County: London
Volume: 14
Page: 1933

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 18 Sep 2016 22:39

Assuming David & Jessie married in Greenock, this is probably their marriage:

1941 PORTER DAVID JEFFERS
MCKINNON JESSIE
GREENOCK EAST /RENFREW 564/01 0259


If so, David was born 1917:

1917 PORTER DAVID JEFFERS M GREENOCK EAST /RENFREW 564/01 0239

and yes, there is the birth of a brother (564/01 0238)

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

patchem

patchem Report 18 Sep 2016 19:08

Welcome to genesreunited, Ann

Have you got years of birth for your cousins?

Have you got death information for their parents?

Do you know where they went to - somewhere else in Scotland, to England, to the other side of the world?

Thank-you

Unknown

Unknown Report 18 Sep 2016 18:58

LOOKING FOR MY COUSINS WHO LEFT GREENOCK SCOTLAND IN THE EARLY 6O's THEY ARE MY DADS TWIN BROTHER AND FAMILY. WHO WERE DAVID AND JESSIE NOW DECEASED THEIR CHILDREN RICHARD, THERESA, ALEX., DAVID AND JESSIE. CAN ANYONE HELP?