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i am very new to all this so i'm struggling a bit.
i am trying to find my maternal grand mother Gweneth Mary Stooksbury but i only know her maiden name, i also know that she was from Hackney or i think she was. she had a baby boy Patrick Stooksbury in 1938, June 21, but he was adopted in 17th may 1939 he went to live in Lydney nr. Glosucester with a Wilfred and Evelyn Watkins. Stooksbury is not a common name but i am sooo struggling, if anyone can help or even point me in some direction. i would be very grateful. please inbox me. she maynot be alive now, but i do know she went on to marry my dad's dad, and had more children, (brothers and sisters)

Sent Pm

It would be helpful, Jonesy, if you indicated what info your PM contained...............

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Name: Gwynneth M Stooksbury
Birth Date: abt 1919
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1940
Age at Death: 21
Registration district: Merthyr Tydfil
Inferred County: Glamorganshire
Volume: 11a
Page: 1448
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Name: Gwyneth M Stooksbury
Mother's Maiden Surname: Penfound
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1918
Registration district: Pontypridd
Inferred County: Glamorganshire
Volume Number: 11a
Page Number: 1267

Welcome to the boards Jane.

Firstly,what a great name to research!

You need to get to know the Freebmd site. This holds entries for births, marriages and deaths from 1837-1950ish. It is free to search. Your grandmother's birth is easy to find, have a go.

www.freebmd.org.uk

Jan

Sorry Flick but as the OP requested contact via her inbox rather than via a public forum I accordingly obliged. Little point in sending a PM and posting what its content was.

If you have any guidance or information to give to Jane I am sure that she would be grateful to receive it from you via PM as requested.

I think we wanted to know that you had found the marriage and sent information, or found the death and queried the marriage.
So:
pm of marriage sent.
Or:
pm of apparent death.

Patchem,

You know what curiosity did to the cat ;-)

PM received back from Jane (Contains no personal information):

"wow thanks, i'm gonna have to check this out....cheers very much."

i want to thank all u chaps for helpful suggestions, but jonesey, has bin a massive massive help, at present i am at a brick ish wall, waitin for birth certificate for my dad, thanks to jonesey, i'm gripped with this, it's very interesting, AND curious....lol....hummmm, yes, cat, curiosity.

Looks like a relative....?

Name: STOOKSBURY, ARTHUR PENFOUND
Initials: A P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Age: 25
Date of Death: 24/03/1942
Service No: 6086430
Additional information: Son of Arthur and Lillian Ann Stooksbury, of Gelli Pentre, Glamorgan.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 3. J. 2.
Cemetery: RANCHI WAR CEMETERY


Gwyn

since the first message, i am no longer looking for a gwyneth stooksbury, but a glenys stooksbury, i think they are from the same family, cousins maybe, but if anyone knows of a GLENYS STOOKSBURY, PLEASE PM ME.....
:-D

Have you tried to research the name yourself?

She is unlikely to be alive, so personal service via PM is unnecessary

Jonesy

You are being obtuse......

It was only requested that you say which type of record you had sent by pm....no-one asked you to put the detailed info here.

Name: Glenys Stooksbury
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1910
Registration district: Pontypridd
Inferred County: Glamorgan, Mid Glamorgan
Volume: 11a
Page: 725
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Name: Glenys Stooksbury
Spouse Surname: Speed
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1938
Registration district: Pontypridd
Inferred County: Glamorgan
Volume Number: 11a
Page Number: 955
Find Spouse: William E
____________________________________________________

Name: Glenys Speed
Birth Date: 20 Nov 1910
Date of Registration: Apr 1994
Age at Death: 83
Registration district: Pontypridd
Inferred County: Glamorgan
Register number: 65A
District and Subdistrict: 8622
Entry number: 77

Jane.
You will have more satisfaction looking for Glenys on freebmds yourself. She was born before the 1911 census so you can ask for a 1911 census look up and find her with her family.

using free 1911 census search
Henry Stooksbury 1878
Mary Annie Stooksbury 1879
Ivor Stooksbury 1904
Glenys Stooksbury 4 months.

Living Pontypridd

1911 census - household transcription
Person: STOOKSBURY, Glenys
Address: 35 Rees St Gelli Pentre Rhondda


STOOKSBURY, Henry Head Married M 33 1878 Coal Miner Hewer Glamorgan Ystrad VIEW
STOOKSBURY, Mary Annie Wife Married
12 years F 32 1879 Dorset Portland VIEW
STOOKSBURY, Ivor Son M 7 1904 School Glamorgan Ystrad VIEW
STOOKSBURY, Glenys Daughter F 0 (4 MONTHS) 1911 Glamorgan Ystrad VIEW

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RG number:
RG14 Piece:
32354 Reference:
RG14PN32354 RG78PN1853A RD589 SD4 ED26 SN246

Registration District:
Pontypridd Sub District:
Rhondda Enumeration District:
26 Parish:
Rhondda

Marriage

Henry Stooksbury dec qt1899 Pontypridd to Mary Annie Carter gro ref 11a 797

birth
David S Stooksbury mar qt 1916 Pontpridd. Mother s maiden name Carter

Flick,

You appear to have once again chosen to ignore the OP's request for information by PM. (GLENYS STOOKSBURY, PLEASE PM ME.....)

You have obviously arbitrarily assumed that because the individual the OP is now enquiring about is no longer alive that it perfectly acceptable to ignore that request.

May I suggest that if anyone is being obtuse (Dictionary definition: Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand) that it is you, not I.

Incidentally this was your initial comment regarding the PM that I had sent to the OP on 23/6:

"It would be helpful, Jonesy, if you indicated what info your PM contained..............."

This is your latest comment on the matter:

"It was only requested that you say which type of record you had sent by pm....no-one asked you to put the detailed info here."

I would suggest that "What info" is somewhat different to "Which type of record".

THANK YOU JONESEY FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

ANY INFORMATION ABOUT ANY STOOKSBURY PLEASE INBOX ME.
THANK YOU ALL X X

Jane,

The problem with sending you a message is that we don't know what others have worked on. If everything is posted here, work won't be duplicated.

Rose