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Thank you. I will try Annie in Strood, I will send. for cert and see if that could be the one, at this stage I will try anything!

Bridget and Iris were born in Strood (from index search). Useful to know.


Births Sep 1895
Skinner Annie Strood 2a 568

for example ...

Dorothy Skinner died 26th March 1932 aged 36 at 10 Trafalgar road, Gravesend Kent

"Hi Janey
My mums name was Iris Lily Kathleen- so no surname there!
I sent for a cert of a Dorothy Skinner in Canterbury because she had a sister with the second name of Kathleen, (it was on 1911 census) but it came back as Edith Dorothy Skinner. I honestly think that I may not be able to do anything with this until 1921 census because the she had a daughter called Bridget, and they would have been together, so I can pinpoint them
Many thanks for your interest"


Hopefully you've caught up to the request that you reply in the thread by now. I'm not copying any more PMs here!


I wonder whether she was born Annie and gave herself the Dorothy as an adult. In the early 1900s, it wasn't too uncommon for young women to trade in their old-fashioned names for fancier more modern ones.

This Dorothy was born in Canterbury, Kent
1901
William H Skinner 32
Ellen Skinner 32
Bertha Skinner 11
Alice Skinner 10
Frank Skinner 7
Dorothy Skinner 5

Thing is, Dawn, since you haven't actually found her birth, you don't know she was born a Skinner. ;)

Can you give us the date of her death? It helps for calculating when her birthdate would be.

Hi Dawn. You have to reply in the thread -- click the purple Reply button at the top and the invisible box opens. It makes us nuts getting private messages about threads. ;)

"Hi, she was born a Skinner and died a Skinner! "

have you sent for this one?:
Name: Dorothy Frances A Skinner
Year of Registration: 1901
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Medway (1837-1941)
County: Kent
Volume: 2a
Page: 684 (click to see others on page)

There is a family in kent in 1901, do you know if dorothy had any brothers/sisters?

Regards linda :)

Snooping in the indexes ... your mum had two middle initials. Was the second by any chance a surname? Just in case it was Dorothy's surname ...

Just to clarify - she died as Skinner?

If she never married, is that her birth surname, do you think?

That's where I'm getting confused -- she never married but you have no birth surname.

Had she adopted the surname of her partner, and was that Skinner?

Hi.
I am searching for a Dorothy Annie Skinner born in Kent in 1896. I know that she died in Gravesend in 1932 aged just 36 with TB.
I cannot find her birth although I have sent for several certs. The thing is that although she was my grandmother, my mum knew nothing about her and she never married, so I have no maiden name, no ggfather or mother to be able to trace her.
I am now banging my head up a great big wall!
Please is anybody able to help?
Thank you!