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I'm not sure how to find this information, but hoping someone will know:-
I am trying to trace any living relatives of Thomas Samuel Smith and Ivy Elizabeth Hood, who were married in 1943 in Islington, and on their marriage certificate they were both living at 120 Offord Road, N1.
Does anyone have access to these electoral rolls for the years after 1943 to see how long they lived at this address, and whether anyone else was living with them.
Any suggestions or help would be gratefully received.
I will check back in the morning, as I need to get some sleep now.
Many Thanks,
Susan

Email the local library to ask who has them, the local studies section are usually most helpful, and they may well even do a lookup for you if you are not local yourself.

Hi Pamela,

Thank you for your advice, I will give that a go.

Susan

No ER's during WW2.

Children will not be listed until they reach the age of 21.

Reg

Hi Reg,
Thank you for that information, but do you have any other suggestions as to how I should go about finding this family now?
Many Thanks,
Susan

You've changed your title to read phone books instead of ER's..............

As previously advised, contact the relevant main library, in the hope that they will do lookups............ER's should be available from 1946 onwards. They are searched by address, so if your people moved, then the trail will have gone cold. As for phone books, only the billpayer is listed in a telephone directory.........as is the case now.

To find out if they produced any offspring, the only way is to search birth indices from the time of the marriage, although with a name like Smith, I don't envy you.

findmypast website offers at least 50 units for £5.00, enough to search one image per quarter for 12 full years.

Reg

Thanks Reg,
I have e-mailed the Islington local history centre, but they want to charge £12 for half an hours searching.
Do you think that 'find my past' is better - cheaper, or easier to look through the birth records than 'Ancestry'?
I do not at present have a subscription with either, but am about to take out an Ancestry one.
Do you think it would be worth going to Islington myself to search the ER. You never know I may be lucky and they stay in one place until the children are 21! ( A bit unlikely I know!)
What do you think would be the best course of action?
Thank you for all your help and advice.
Susan

Susan,

I haven't used findmypast, I do use ancestry though. The problem with the years you are looking at is that they are not indexed, so you have to scroll through scans of (typed) lists of names from the GRO, and I am sure that will be the same on both sites.

I know you can take out a month's unlimited access to Ancestry for £10, and that might be better value than findmypast credits, if you also make use of it to look up lots of censuses pre 1901, and other information. Ancestry also has lots of phone books online, but I can't get a result on Offord Road, of course telephones weren't in every house then, by any stretch.

You can also get a free subscription to Ancestry for 14 days, I think you have to commit to sign up to a year, but if in the first 14 days you want to cancel, you can ring them up and do so.

hope that helps a little bit.

Hi Pamela and Von,
Thank you both for your advice, I think I will do what you have both suggested, and hopefully I should get nearer finding a living relative one way or the other.
Thanks again,
Susan