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I am trying to find any info about the above as I am trying to put together my family tree. Jeannette was born in 1937 and is the elder of the siblings, she is also my mother. Unfortunately she can no longer communicate so I am having real trouble trying to find my aunts and uncle as we do not have any contact information for any of them! Susan married Graham, Carol married Max, Jeannette married George Margaret and John I do not know who they married although I do know Margaret had three girls.
Any help would be very much appreciated. We have been out of contact for far too long.
Thank you Martin Fisher
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If you have a wee bit more info -- the surnames of Graham, Max and George in particular -- it might be possible to find something. Odds might be that one of the siblings and/or husbands has died at this point, and a death cert might get you some info, or a pointer for where to look.
Also, could you give any other info you have just a little more coherently? A list would be good! It's just kind of difficult to sort out run on sentences like
"Jeannette married George Margaret and John I do not know who they married"
without parsing it first. ;)
Susan married Graham ___
Carol married Max ___
Jeannette married George ___
Margaret married ? and had three daughters
John married ?
If you do have surname info, I'll take a look at the post-1984 death index.
Also, just to be sure from the list of names in your header: Senior is the surname of the siblings?
Oops, forgot a crucial bit of info: where were they born, and do you have any idea of where they lived as adults?
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Sounds fair,
Susan married Graham, no idea of a surname, my guess is possibly Jones but don't bet the house on it;-) Possibly lived in Gorleston
John Senior not even sure 100% that he married, be surprised but you nevr know. Lived or lives somewhere in Kent possibly.
Carol married Max, possibly Garrod. Live or lived in Poringland, Norfolk.
Jeannette married George Fisher (deceased May 2007 and was my father) . Lived in Norwich.
Margaret and John I do not know who they married although I do know Margaret had three girls. Possibly lived in Lowestoft.
No certain idea of where they where born other than my mother (Jeannette was brought up from a very young age in Rochester Kent so there is where I have been trying to find info.
Thank you, if this helps you to help me then thank you very very much. As you may gather my family are not or were not great communicators with each other.
Martin
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Yes, well, you had to have surnames like Jones and Fisher. ;)
... and it turns out Garrod is a very popular name in Norfolk. Always seems to be the case with names I've never even heard of! But there is no Carol Garrod or Max Garrod among the deaths in Norfolk 1984-2005. Or in any other location.
There are three plain John Seniors born since 1937 who died in that period, in Dewsbury, Dewsbury and Leeds. There are multiple other John___Senior-s and ___JohnSenior-s. It seems to be very much a Yorkshire surname.
Google maps tells me that Lowestoft is in Suffolk. None of the John Senior deaths were there.
With Margaret Senior-s as with the Johns: a couple born post 1937 who died in Yorkshire, as well as a few with Margaret as one of two given names.
Google maps tells me that Gorlston is in Norfolk. Once again, multiple deaths of Graham Jones-s and Susan Jones-s, none in Norfolk.
You may have the good luck of having most or all of these siblings still be living.
To be sure, what you need to do is find their births, and that's a laborious process. It involves starting in 1938 and opening up the images of the GRO index, and reading at least one page for each quarter of each successive year for each sibling until you find them.
If you could get their birth certs, you would have their exact date of birth, and could search the death indexes with that info. Even without the exact dates, you would have the year and an approx date.
You would also have their mother's birth surname, which could be useful info. You may know that already. But if not, you could easily get it from your mother's birth certificate. I think you'd need the GRO reference, to order it, so if you have her birthdate I could consult the single image needed to get the details.
Not tonight, probably, though. I'm tired and hungry and going home shortly -- I'm on Canadian time! Somebody on Australian time might happen by and look it up.
I'm just thinking that if by some stroke of luck your mother's mother had an unusual surname, you might be able to find cousins of your mother, for instance.
Meanwhile, about all I can suggest is go to the phone book on line
http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search.publisha
and search for the names you might know in the places they might be. Call strangers at random!
... Well hey. Go there right now and search for Garrod in Poringland. You might just hit the jackpot! Any chance Max's middle initial is "L"?
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You'll also find a J Senior in Beccles, although it being a common name, that might be a long shot.
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