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Hello
I'm enquiring about my past as i never really knew my dads side of the family.
My mum & I have managed to get back to my great grandad, then we have no trace of people on my dad's side after that.
I Ideally would like to know who his father was.
My great grandad was called Edward Pantrey & he was married to a woman called Rose.
Any information would be greatful.
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Hi Maria -- tell us where your great granddad was born / lived / married, and an idea of when. In fact, tell us as much as you know! (including his children's names)
I'm going to take a wild guess -- might this be him?
Name: Edward Pantrey
Year of Registration: 1897
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Ticehurst
County: Kent, Sussex
Volume: 2b
Page: 103
(My gr-grparents were born around 1850-1870, and I'm guessing you're younger than me.)
I searched at
http://www.freebmd.org.uk
for an Edward Pantrey who married a Rose, but it didn't find anything. This is probably because he married after or just before 1920, and FreeBMD has not got all those lists transcribed so that they're searchable yet. They're coming along, though.
If that birth record is your great-granddad, then you can order the certificate to get his parents' names. Meanwhile, this would certainly be that Edward Pantrey in 1901:
Name: Edward Pantry
Age: 3
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1898
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Charles
Mother's Name: Elizabeth
Gender: Male
Where born: Ticehurst, Sussex, England
Civil Parish: Ticehurst
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary the Virgin
Town: Ticehurst
County/Island: Sussex
Country: England
Registration district: Ticehurst
Sub-registration district: Ticehurst
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Household schedule number: 56
Household Members:
Name Age
Charles Pantry 34
Charles Pantry 5
Edward Pantry 3
Elizabeth Pantry 30
Ethel Pantry 1
Florence Pantry 6
It's quite likely that I've guessed entirely wrong; if so, hand over whatever you've got -- especially any idea you have of birth date and place -- and we'll try again!
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No, you havent
It was Ticehurst lot. The problem I have is there were quiet alot of them & no one eally knows.
I know about my Grandad who was Edward Pantrey, I wounder then if his dad was also called Edward it is a family name.
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I see you have an Edward Pantrey born 1840 in Kent in your tree, so I think I'm on the right track.
This would be the marriage of your great granddad's parents:
Name: Charles Edward Pantry + Elizabeth Saunders
Year of Registration: 1893
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Cranbrook
County: Kent, Sussex
Volume: 2a
Page: 1349
It's going to be an easy matter to trace the Pantreys, at least, back through the censuses and BMDs. You are fortunate to have a quite uncommon surname there. Me, I'm looking for people called things like James Hill and William Hill ...
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Grandad Had four kids.
Sharon
Terry (my dad)
Keith
Kevin
Alot of them were born & raised around Ticehurst/Goudhurst/Kent
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Okay then, so I've got the right Pantreys!
Do you have a subscription to Ancestry or any other site where you can search censuses?
I'd do it for you, but
(a) I should get some work done
(b) that would spoil all your fun!
The fun really is in the discovering, I think.
I use Ancestry, which has a 14-day free trial subscription that might be all you need to find a lot of info.
With the names and ages of Edward's parents in 1901, you can probably find their births, then find them as children in their parents' households, then trace their parents back ...
Also, if you search at www.familysearch.org for Edward Pantrey, for example, you'll find a slew of them going back to 1606 in Kent, so once you get as far as you can go in the censuses and the GRO index, you might be able to get a lot farther back still.
Will we cross in the "post" again? ;)
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Thank you
I'l try & let you know
Maria
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