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How about ordering the marriage cert? Hopefully that will give you ages, another little bit of info under your belt.

Hi Smiley, Sorry just seen your message. Penny has a marriage certificate which is the only one that could be found in Dec 1929,
states their ages as 20.

Hi Sue, Have had a long chat with Penny. She has no memory of her father. Her Nan showed her a photo of a man holding a baby in a shawl and was told that was her father.

She was sent to Barnardos very young, has no memory of her mother,
after being in foster homes she eventually went to live with her maternal grandmother when she was 5 or 6.
She now recalls that she went to live with B J known as Jack when she was about 10 on the Thames View Estate Barking but then went to boarding school at 12 as she didnt get on with Jacks wife!!
Brother Roger apparently visited Jacks home but they used to argue
constantly and he was always told to leave!

Penny was told by her Nan that she had 5 brothers but never met 2 of them. She said she had met brother Alfred when she was living with her Nan at Movers Lane Barking.

When Penny queried why she was born in Bath her Nan told her all mothers with children or expectant mums were evacuated.

It seems very strange that her mothers death record cannot be found
nor can we find this elusive brother Alfred!

They havent got far on freebmd for me to find Horace George Day's death records cos he must have died not long after Penny was born.

I am hoping that the marriage certificate is her parents as she feels it is.
Not the easiest find, I am hoping that Penny will contact Barnardos as Irene suggested as it might give a clue as to when her mother died.
Maybe they will also know something about her siblings, if Roger was born 1937 he wouldnt have been old enough to be living on his own,
where did he go?

She said her head was getting all fuzzy trying to remember but Ive told her to take her time and anything that she remembers she should write it down.

If there is anything that you can take from this new info to help further I would be so grateful for your help.

Many many thanks Rose

Hi Rose there is a message on the Success board about a lady getting in touch with Barnardos about her Dad and she found out a lot of information about him and they sent her 2 pictures to - one when her father was 5 and one when he was 15. You could get in touch with that lady and find out how much information was on the admission form. Good luck Irene

Found the birth of your Jessie Maud 1909.Romford
Found the marriage of her parents
William Crosby and Maud Elizabeth Tyler 1900 Romford
Found Jessie in the 1911 census with her parents and sibling
William Henry transcribbed as CROSSBY 1880 living Romford.
Maud Elizabeth 1882
William Henry 1903
John Richard 1905
Albert M 1907

After the 1911 census there is a Margaretta May Crosby (Mothers maiden name Tyler) born 02.11.1911 who married John H.M.Fisher 1930 - she died 1992 at Barking, Essex and she is in the tree of a member of GR.
Good luck I do hope your friend Penny gets a good lead on her birth family. Regards Irene