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Ah, something else to pay for ... but for the full GRO, it would probably be worth it.

Horrendous site to look at though; you Brits have gone berserk with flash ads -- far worse than the yanks even. Thank my stars for NoFlash (for IE); companion to Firefox Adblock, for this site and all others -- don't know what I'd do without Adblock for Ancestry! Those ads can certainly induce seizures ...

Hi Kathryn

FreeBMD is good but not total coverage yet. If I can't find it on FreeBMD my favourite site is Familyrelatives. Searching 1866-1920 is fantastically easy. Indexes are fully transcribed so you don't have to wade through pages and pages of indexes. Cost isn't too bad either though I did get my fingers smacked recently for over use!!
Trouble is I love trying to help people with their brick walls, as I cant even see the top of mine!!

Okay, Lindsay! Where did you find that Theresa birth?? I was positive I'd searched by that spelling too ... yup, it's not showing at FreeBMD.

Oh well -- I got to the right place the crooked way around!


Oh, and -- you're welcome, Angela! And now you know how to use FreeBMD for next time, right? ;)

Thanks again Lindsay

Quite possible Beatrice Drakeford on 1891 census, only one that came up and would make her about 20 in 1910

DRAKEFORD, Albert Head Married M 26 Coal Miner Longton Staffordshire
DRAKEFORD, Sarah Wife Married F 25
Longton Staffordshire
DRAKEFORD, Emily Daughter F 6 School Girl
Longton Staffordshire
DRAKEFORD, Mary Elizabeth Daughter F 4
Swinton Yorkshire
DRAKEFORD, Beatrice Daughter F 0 (10M)
Longton Staffordshire

RG number:RG12 Piece:2182 Folio:33 Page:16

Registration District:Stoke Upon Trent
Sub District:Longton
EnumerationDistrict:13
Ecclesiastical Parish:St Paul

Civil Parish:Stoke Upon Trent
Municipal Borough:Longton
Address:
120, Heathcote Road, Stoke Upon Trent, Longton County:Staffordshire

Thanks Lindsay!

Parents marriage
AUSTIN Harold Stoke upon Trent.6b 299 2 1910

DRAKEFORD Beatrice Stoke upon Trent.6b 299 2 1910

Woops! see you've already got that

Birth
AUSTIN Theresa Drakeford Stoke Upon Trent.6b 422 3 1918

Thanks a lot AGAIN Kathryn, now I've got another couple of leads, CHEERS!

Well then here's Beatrice's birth!

Name: Beatrice Austin
Year of Registration: 1915
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Mother's Maiden Name: Drakeford
District: Stoke Upon Trent
County: Staffordshire
Volume: 6b
Page: 465

I must have screwed up the Austin-Drakewood search the first time. ... No, duh duh duh -- it's DrakeFORD, and I was searching for DrakeWOOD. Brain glitch.

Teresa may just not be transcribed yet, and/or have been a little younger than stated at marriage.

Here are the other two siblings, as transcribed so far:


Ernest A Austin
1913 Jul-Aug-Sep
Drakeford
Stoke Upon Trent Staffordshire

Harold Austin
1912 Apr-May-Jun
Drakeford
Stoke Upon Trent Staffordshire

Hi Kathryn

Suddenly the name Beatrice rings a bell with someone and teresas sister was called Beatrice,

Thanks

Have you tried ordering this one:


Name: Teresa E Austin
Year of Registration: 1913
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Mother's Maiden Name: Talbot
District: Wirral (1837-1974)
County: Cheshire
Volume: 8a
Page: 794


to see whether the father's name matches? She might have been fibbing about her age a bit when she married, if she was older than the groom!


On the other hand, this is probably her parents' marriage (you know the father was Harold):


Name: Harold Austin + Beatrice Drakeford
Year of Registration: 1910
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Stoke Upon Trent
County: Staffordshire
Volume: 6b
Page: 299


Oh, oops, here's another one:

Name: Harold Austin + Martha Brown
Year of Registration: 1912
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's Surname: Brown
District: Stoke Upon Trent
County: Staffordshire
Volume: 6b
Page: 477


But checking at FreeBMD for births with both those combos of surnames, there are no Austin-Drakewoods, and these Austin-Browns, in Stoke on Trent:

Births Sep 1919
Austin Arthur Brown Stoke T. 6b 465
Austin Sarah E Brown Stoke T. 6b 465

Births Sep 1915
AUSTIN Irene Brown Stoke T 6b 402

Births Jun 1913
Austin Edith M Brown Stoke T. 6b 476


Do you suppose Teresa might have been a middle name?

If you have her marriage certificate, might any of those names be among the witnesses?

Might Harold Austin have been a stepfather?

Unfortunately, FreeBMD hasn't progressed far enough that we could look for a later marriage of Harold Austin to Teresa's mother, if that were the case, without reading the actual images for each year ...

Hi heather

How can I do that when I cant find it registered anywhere and I'm not even sure her birthdate is correct.

You need to find her birth cert for mum and dad.

Trying to find parents of Teresa Austin c1917, hit another brick wall, relatives do not exist! She was born in Stoke-on-trent c1917 married a Cyril Ernest Austin c1918, (yes same surname), her father was Harold Austin also from Stoke, they had two sons, Terence and Dennis, but bieng men they can't remember anything, one even got his own birthday wrong, plese help.