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Can anyone tell me if there is a way of finding parents of a chlid through date of birth ?? I have exact date of birth and am trying to work out who her parents were ?? she was brought up as my dads sister. I can not find her marriage registration either but do have her death reg ?? Anyone any ideas

Name and poss dates would help us find the person

HER BIRTH CERT

Do we understand that you don't know what her name was at birth?

If you do, she'd be easily found in the births index ... if she wasn't Mary Smith, mother Jones. ;)

You may not want to give the info you have, but can you say what you have, i.e. do you have her given name, surname, either parent's surname?

I can not get her birth cert as dont know her birth name !! Her married name was Daisy Margaret Stevens married to Albert. Her birth date as we knew it and on her death reg was 20/10/1908 pretty sure in west sussex area

Sorry she lived and was brought up as a Todman, but we knew she could be child of one of our grandparents, not both.

I suppose the only thing I can think of if there is a way og getting a List of births for certain dates within different areas ??

And now if you tell us those grandparents' names ...

Todman and James, I have spent weeks checking through regs under those names, also my grandfthers previous wife white and nothing. That is why I am stuck with dob and wondering if I can get list of regs for that day anywhere ??

Drag that she was born before 1911! Can't search by mother's surname then.

I'm not up on what local registry offices have by way of chronological lists.

Take a peek at this thread which has a similar sort of problem:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1137188

Hopefully someone will show up who does know your answer!

I did wonder about her name - Daisy is a nickname for Margaret. But there were six Daisy Margarets registered in Q4 1908. One was a Finch, in Eastbourne. Any chance do you think?

Thanks evie, but no luck with finch, she wa born Dec and traced her parents. Think this may be a family secret not to come out, if I could find an An albert Stevens marrying a Daisy in sussex may be able to track but no luck there either ??

For the Albert Stevens you may just have to wait a bit for transcribing to catch up (barring a lot of ploughing through images).

Did they have kids? Do you have names and birth details? To get the mother's surname as stated for the births. Like you haven't tried that ... ;)

Have you tossed this on the heap too? ;)

Marriages Dec 1930
Lewis Daisy M Stevens Petersfield 2c 431
Stevens Albert T Lewis Petersfield 2c 431

Even matches one of those Q4 1908 births ...

Births Dec 1908
Lewis Daisy Margaret Aberystwith 11b 40

Will the 1911 census help to locate her

Daisy Margaret wasn't with Arthur Todman in 1911


TODMAN ELLEN 1857 54 Horsham Sussex
TODMAN ARTHUR WALTER 1876 35 Horsham Sussex


So that seems to confirm that she wasn't his child or his first wife's child.


Marriages Sep 1897
Todman Arthur Walter Horsham 2b 665
WHITE Ellen Horsham 2b 665

Marriages Mar 1916
James Sarah Tedman Horsham 2b 647
Todman Arthur W James Horsham 2b 647


Sarah James in 1911?

JAMES SARAH 1892 19 Horsham Sussex

No Daisy or Margaret with her.

Evie
Where on earth did you find that ?? I have been searching for months !!!
Is that on ancestory or BMD, am looking right now
Sandie

Great minds, Quinsgran. ;)

If that Welsh Daisy Lewis was in Wales in 1911, we'll have to wait a while yet to track her.

No Daisy in Horsham in 1911 leaps off the page.

I am beginning to think she was taken in by our grandparents and is not related to either, but the photo of her is identical to my siter at same age, coincidence ?? I will continue delving, Wales is on 1911 census isnt it ? Am up to NA next week can look.
Thanks for your help sorry am bit dappy with info forget others cant read my mind when I get caught up in it.!!!

That marriage is on FreeBMD. It may have been added since you last looked. ;)

Wales isn't on the 1911 yet -- in the transcription accessible on line, i.e. We'll know when it is -- Vivienne will be throwing a party on the boards!

Two things I meant to say --

I wouldn't be wed to that birthdate. By the time people that old died, there may not have been anybody around who actually knew. My observation is that the date tends to be about right, but the year is sometimes out. (That was the case for my grandfather, who only found out his actual birthdate in 1901, rather than 1900, when he retired.)

And for resemblances -- show anybody a picture of me, my best friend and her daughter at the age of two (or even now, at 30), and it's obvious to anybody whose kid the daughter is. Mine. Spitting image of me at two, too! My best friend and I bear absolutely no resemblance to each other, and in fact could hardly be more different. ;)