Genealogy Chat

Marion if you put the names up here we can help look for a marriage perhaps? and earlier census details which might pin them down a bit.

I recently contacted the church where my gt grandparents married and the archivist there kindly gave me some baptism details which brought to light another child. Some parish registers and other info can be found online depending on area .

Thank you all for your replies ..... On the 1911 census it stated they had been married for 28 years but I cannot find any marriage for them. I will have to try as you have suggested and look for births in that area and parish records etc. Thanks for all your advice.

Marion

Don't want to put you off other people's suggestions, but the same happened with me. The 1911 census said 2 children died. Knew nothing about them. Surname Stokes, Registration District Hayfield, died c 1885-1911. Dozens of little Stokeses born in that time frame and died.

That said, you could contact the local register office and ask for certs for deaths of children born to Fred Bloggs and Jane Doe between those years, and they will probably help.

Just off to do the same myself.

Margaret

marion ifound relatives by going to local record office and looking in the cemetery registers first they were listed by year and alphbetical name then plot and where they died. in lots of cases tho it said child of ( eg )jones, esp stillborn so you cannot always trace a young child.the tv folk make it look so easy!

Hi Marion
I use my Lancashire bmd which sometimes (not always)gives the mothers maiden name for births. Then you could use the deaths for the named children.
What area were yours born ?
Joan

In your situation I would look at the age spread of the children and look for likely gaps, where a child ( maybe premature? ) could have been born.
It is often easier to start with the deaths in the correct time frame, because you will see from the index whether they refer to children.

If the family stayed in one area, you could check parish registers for baptism or burials, which might provide family links.
I have also had good help from a town council re burials in a cemetery. Grave and plot numbers could be matched, which suggested family links which could then be checked.

Gwyn

I don't want to discourage you, but my first comment is that Who do You Think You Are makes it all look so easy - they've got a high-powered team of professionals and contacts in all the right places! For the amateur, if this information is to be found, it's a long, hard and expensive slog.
The 1911 census asks the number of children from the "present marriage" and also how long the marriage has lasted. That at least gives you a time frame. I can't think of any way to do it - maybe someone else can correct me - other than going through the BMD indexes for that surname quarter by quarter. If the family didn't move around too much you should have some idea of the district. But you imply that their surname is a fairly common one, in which case it's going to be a mammoth task.
Good luck, though!

On 1911 census it stated that my ancestor had 10 children and 6 were still living and 4 had died. how do you find out the who 4 died if you don`t know there names? and there will probably be a lot of people with their surname. ?? I saw on Who do you think you are programme the other day they managed to find some that had died. Any advice please.