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I have this birth record from Lancashire bmd

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1857
Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Mother's Maiden Name Reference
MCNAB Margaret Eliza Bury South Bury GREEN BS/19/54

I can't find it on FreeBMD.

Eventually managed to get onto the correct page in the indexes and it is definitely there. Seems FreeBMD have missed a page out when transcribing. Anyone else come across this?

Julie

There's this:

Births Sep 1857
Nabb Margaret Bury 8c 356

Rose

Although it looks like her parents are George Nabb and Fanny Stanley.

Rose

Yes I looked at that Rose but I've since been into the indexes. Margaret Eliza McNab is definitely there in the Sept QTR. The page starts with McMullen and last but one is McNamee. If you search for those on FreeBMD there are none given for the Sept QTR of 1857.

Julie

That whole page has not been transcribed.
FreeBMD isn't complete for that qtr.

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/progressB.shtml

Rose

Ah.... thank you Rose - I thought coverage was now complete. Off now to look at coverage regarding a marriage I've been looking for for ages!..........................

Julie

That will teach me to read what's in front of me-I mean it does actually say 'we have not yet transcribed the whole index'!

Hmmm Marriage coverage for 1890 - 1909 is 100% so they should be there...................back to thinking they never married........

What marriage is missing?

Rose

Joseph McNab and Amelia Cross.

Sometime between 1891 when they are single and 1899 when first child appears to have been born.

In 1901 they are in Andover with 2 children. Amelia is 'Milly'

In 1911 they are in Weymouth.

Have searched on every variation of name I can think of for both, including looking for him as Healey as he was fostered by a family of that name and appears with that name in 1881 and 1891.

He was registered as McNab, baptised as McNab, and calls himself McNab in 1901 and 1911 so no real reason to suppose he married as Healey.

He was brought up in Lancashire and Amelia in Dorset. I think she may have been Amelia Ann. Both are in their respective counties in 1891 so no idea really how they met & where they married

The only clue is that she was in service at some time at the Grace and Favour Apartments at Hampton Court Palace. Joseph was a gardener so maybe he went to work there?

I need to be up for work in the morning Rose so I'm sorry I won't be around to see if you find anything. Back tomorrow evening!

Thanks for looking

Julie

EDIT Have all the census info on both but no time to C&P right now so please don't trouble yourself looking for that as I can post more info tomorrow if needed x

Do the following - look up a birth in each quarter of 1857, say some John b in Alcester (a small RD). Look at the headers - most say something like:

Births Mar 1857 (>99%)

showing this quarter is essentially complete. However, there's also a

Births Sep 1857 (96%)

so this is probably when your birth got rego'ed. Actually, there is a gap between

McKeon Peter Thomas Manchester 8d 209 [p921]

McNaught Alexander Liverpool 8b 10 [p927]

I clicked on the view image specs to see what index page #s came up.
Now go to FreeBMD's home page and click on their view image link
On p 926, we find

McNab Margaret Eliza Bury 8c 354

If you were doubtful abt the page #, you could look up who's on this page. There's 9 people who we can look up on LancsBMD and find their refs BS/19/53 thrice, BS/19/54 4 times and BS/19/55 twice. The local rego's usually have 5 entries per page, so your girl would fit right in.

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1857
Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Mother's Maiden Name Reference
MCNAB Margaret Eliza Bury South Bury GREEN BS/19/54

How long have they been married according to the 1911 census?

Rose

Thanks mgnv I'll store that useful tip for future reference.

Rose – I don't know is the answer. At the moment there's only a couple of records on the 1911 that I'm interested in seeing the transcript/image for so I haven't bought credits/subscribed. I'm sure that will change as my tree grows!

Obviously it would narrow the timeframe for the marriage which might help but I've searched on so many variations as I said I'm thinking maybe they didn't marry.

Thanks for your interest.

Just off to do something else but will be back.

Julie

Well that was me that accidentally deleted.

Thanks PigletsPal. I guess I should consider what else I might find out. Can't blame the enumerator for 'errors' in 1911!

Julie