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Tracey

Tracey Report 28 Oct 2007 23:37

Hi there
I have done exceptionally well so far in tracing my family tree 7 generations on one side and a 173 years up to now ...phew, i have a problem now .... my grandmother Evelyn primrose Spencer married my grandfather Ernest Harold white in 1939 in nottingham this much i know, i know my grandmother was born in 1912, herein i have the problem i have no idea where she came from and i believe that she was adopted!, i can find no record of her birth anywhere or am i missing something? i don't know it is giving me a headache now and no one seems to know anything in my family please can someone help.

many thanks for your time
kindest regards
Tracey

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 28 Oct 2007 23:49

Tracey,

Do you have the marriage cert?

Rose

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 28 Oct 2007 23:49

This birth fits, or is this not the correct one?

Births Sep 1912
Spencer Evelyn P Sharpe Basford 7b 510

Rose

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 28 Oct 2007 23:52

This implies a birth registered in the June or September quarters:

Name: Evelyn Primrose White
Birth Date: 27 May 1912
Death Registration Month/Year: Aug 1996
Age at death (estimated): 84
Registration district: Rushcliffe
Inferred County: Nottinghamshire
Register number: 16C
Entry Number: 244

Rose

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Parents:

Marriages Sep 1909
SHARPE Miriam Nottingham 7b 499
SPENCER Nathaniel Nottingham 7b 499

Rose

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Siblings:

Births Sep 1911
SPENCER Miriam Sharpe Nottingham 7b 934

Births Dec 1913
Spencer Arthur S Sharpe Nottingham 7b 644

Births Mar 1916
Spencer Mabel F Sharpe Nottingham 7b 553

Rose

Tracey

Tracey Report 29 Oct 2007 01:27

I am all confused now ....and thats not difficult if my grandmother was born on 27th may 1912 her birth would not have been registered until possibly jul aug sept i understand that.... so she could not have a birth date of eptember could she? as in moody blue's reply or is this juts in this quarter sorry for being blonde! ( which i am also) Thanks Tracey

Heather

Heather Report 29 Oct 2007 08:46

You need to buy some certificates to verify information and then give you more to work on - using the references given buy them from GRO online for £7.

(I just saw you have 7 generations on one line - have you not got any certs for them?)

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 29 Oct 2007 08:51

You cannot proceed with any degree of certainty until you obtain Evelyn's marriage cert...........to find out the name and occupation of her father.

With that info, you can order the birth cert, using the father's forename as a checking point..............

Reg