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can any one help me find who my g granda robert jacksonbc1845 birmingham married mary jane?c b1850 alverthorpe their 1st child was b1868so i tried to work marriage between 1865 and 1869 i cant seem to find anything i would be grateful to any help at all as to who she was they would of had to be married round yorkshire area as 1st child was born there i no there is better people at thi9s detective work than my self
thank you
lilian

Where have you actually found them so far - on a census? Who was the first child? And where in Yorkshire was he born?

FreeBMD had no problem with it!

Marriages Mar 1866
** Baines Mary J Wakefield 9c 1
HEY Absolam Wakefield 9c 1
** JACKSON Robert F Wakefield 9c 1
Kay Grace Wakefield 9c 1


A search for:

Marriages
Jackson
Robert
Wakefield
1862 to 1872

found it in a flash.


http://www.freebmd.org.uk

Great procrastinating minds.

Well there you go, sorted! Do you use freebmd? Do you have ancestry?

im very greatful to your help all of yous i hope your xmas goes well and god bless yous and ppl like yous who help ppl like me stuck in a rut as i wouldnt b this far on my tree if it was not for yous thank you very much

Carol -- it occurred to me that your problem with searching might have been that you were *too* specific.

If you were looking for a marriage to Mary Jane, for instance, you wouldn't have got the "Mary J" result.

If a search with details doesn't turn up what you're after, start omitting details. That's why I just looked for Robert Jackson, but started out restricting it to Wakefield to see what happened, and there he was.

If that didn't work, I could have tried just Jackson marriages in Wakefield, marriages between a Robert and a Mary in Wakefield, Robert Jackson with no place specified, etc. You can never be sure what people called themselves ... or how they got transcribed a century later. ;)

For example, I found a family in 1861 Wales for someone here justlikethat, when I just left the surname out of the census search altogether and looked for:

jane (with no surname)
born 1859
living in a particular place
born in a particular place
father Tho* (for Thomas, in case he was Thos, e.g.)
mother Cha* (for Charlotte, in case of mistranscription)

-- all the information the poster here had provided -- and there she was, about 15 names down the list. Their name wasn't Pierce, or Peirce as it was misspelled in 1881. It was PEERS. And her mother was Charlot, and her brothers were all there, but her father wasn't home. ;)

Using those tricks, that poster found her WATKINS family in 1901 mistranscribed as WALKINS.

And it's how I finally found my gr-grparents in 1901. I knew they were living in East Ham, and I'd found my gr-grmother's personal details: born 1865 in Romford. So I just searched for Annie, born 1865 in Romford, in East Ham. And there they were: the MONCK couple called MORICK at Ancestry, with their children on the next page called MARK.

Cagsie used some similar trick to find Mary J BARNES in the census. Not magic, just guile. You have to outwit the people who make those databases. ;)

Happy holidays to you too!

katherine ive got the best family relation i bet you cant find it no one can