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Martha was born 1916 in Pontyclun she married a William George Main in 1950 in Plymouth she died 1999 in Plymouth. Martha Father is definitely William Henry and her mother is Sarah Ann Davies NOT ROSA.

Where has Rosa come from I'm confused.

No Janey............just getting bearings nearest to 1916 as to where the family were based..........re maybe baptism in family church, as a lot of Welsh folk if poss would have taken this ancestral route. In that where the mother was baptised then her children may be as well if she stayed in her home town.

Martin........no problem as I said just trying to get bearings, you know who your family are!

Annx

No problems **Ann** thanks so much for your help and Janey and everyone else. I think I am just going to ask my uncle to give his DNA and hope for the best keep you posted.

Good luck!

Aargh, that was Ann who said Rosa Davies back early on page 1. Ignore me!

Ah yes, she married as Kathleen M Shufflebotham (I'd been trying that combo as well but disregarded that 1950 marriage I guess). It does help to say things like that, Martin -- things you know that we don't, things that are different from how one would assume. Martha didn't marry -- Kathleen did!

Martin, I do think you should follow Ann's suggestion and look into a baptism record for your grandfather, just in case there is mention of his father.

How would I find out if he was baptised or christened?

Local churches?

I checked for marriages of your grandfather's brother under the stepfather's surname (assuming he did stay with his mother) - there are one in Liverpool 1970 and one in Abingdon Berkshire, 1976, and also one in Newbury Berkshire in 1996. The one who married in 1996 (probably the same one as the 1976 marriage) is on the electoral roll in Berkshire in 2002 only (which would be consistent with a death in late 2001); his wife is also listed in 2003. The one who married in Liverpool is on the 2011 electoral roll.

This death matches the brother's birth for middle initial and quarter of registration:

Name: Michael Leslie Main
Birth Date: 21 Aug 1940
Death Registration Month/Year: Nov 2001
Age at death (estimated): 61
Registration district: Southampton
Inferred County: Hampshire
Register number: D63A
District and Subdistrict: 5001D
Entry number: 197

There is no birth to match that name in that year.

If you got the brother's birth certificate, you would be able to rule that death in or out. If it were him, the death certificate could also provide the name of a family member as informant.


I will PM you info about the 1996 marriage/wife. Someone here at GR seems to have her in their tree.