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hi, i need help, both my nan and grandad both passed away last year, and for lots of reasons we were not greatly close to that side of the family but i am trying to find my greatgrand parents my grandads name was ernest chard, and my nan margaret ford my grandad come from pontypridd and my nan bristol, all i know about them is there children, nothing about there parents,
sarah

do you have any date of birth for them???

ok workong backwards for you your grandads side


your grandad birth

ernest w t mmn ball pontypridd 11a 1011 1927 3rd quarter

your great grandad and great granmother wedding

william e t chard to cecilia e ball

pontypridd 11a 925 1926 4th quarter

your great granmothers birth

BALL Cecilia Ellen Pontypridd.11a 627 4 1907

i think you need to order william and cecilia's wedding cert it will then give us ages for william and gie us there fathers names so we can get them on the census

also cecilia's birth it will give us her mother and then once we have them on the census it will be so much easier to trace.

was margaret born in 1928???

or 1930????

margaret was 1930, william and ceclia that is what i have but not sure if it right

but i can not find a birth for william chard, he didi married a ball

as for williams birth there is lots of williams that where born so you need to get his wed cert to cecilia ball and that will give us his age to narrow down when he was born. this has to be right as i sat here last knight and went through 286 pages (not names pages) and this was the only record i could find of a ball marring a chard (ball being mmn) and the places fit to where you said. if you want to, you can order your grandads birth cert and that will give you his mother and fathers name so you will know for sure. then if this is right, you will still need to order the wed of william and cecilia to find there fathers names and dates

and as for you nan i was hoping you were going to say 1928 as there was only one born then and there was three in 1930 do you know her middle intial or even better her date of birth???

p.s what does

didi married a ball? mean

hello again thank you for that, how do i order there birth cert,

good question i normally google

order bmd certificate and it gives the page i need, i know there is a thread around here that tells you the exact site you need , also any luck on your nans middle name?

my names middle name is alice

tipical out of the three there was one margaret d and two margaret a

do either of these ring any bells

1st one

margaret a (mmn) bowden 1930 1st quarter 6a 82

2nd one

margaret a (mmn) knight 1930 2nd quarter 6a 338

any of the mmn ring a bell if they do let me know and i will find her parents

oh ps you know you said you thought ernest father was also called ernest then we find out it was william

williams middle name was ernest so he could of been known as ernest./??

hello my nan is bowden i have that, my grandads full name was ernest william thomas, sothat could be him,

was it 1907, i have that as well but was not sure

how are you finding out all this

i'm cleaver he he

no i just search

between 1922- 1983 i have to go through page by page
between 1866- 1920 i only have to put the name in

if you have your nans mmn you just look for a marriage between a (male) ford and a (female) bowden

then you have there first names you can then search

no the 1907 ernest was ernest john frederick it could pos be your williams brother the dates would be around that time

this may be a silly question but what mmn