Genealogy Chat

Hi, i was wondering if someone could look up Bertha Ellen Looms on the 1911 census born in 1885 stoke on trent dilhorne.

Thanks again :) Janette x

Thnak you ever so much! Some of those children's names also fit in William is new to me however i shall look into that! Thanks again :) Janette x

Bertha is also new to me however i have a great aunt barbara still living so i shall have to speak to her about it! Thanks x

Yes, that is probabley why seems quite sad i have just spoken to my mum and it seems she was forgotten about as she had never heard of a Bertha neither thank you ever so much. Janette x

Hi, I am just wondering which site you have used to find out all this information and also how i would find out about the deaths of the other children. Janette x

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

This site is very useful for looking up births, marriages and deaths.

It is free as the work is done by volunteers but only goes up to 1920's ish

Civil registration began in England and Wales in 1837

Thank you both Glitter Baby and SomersetGirl. However I am having little sucess with the freebmd search and was wondering if it would be possible for someone to look for the death of william h looms born 1916. Thanks ever so much for all your help
Janette x

Thank you ever so much SometsetGirl I am cetian he is not alive. I have also found a death in 1955 which would appear to be him the real confusion i have found here was that William Henry was known as Bert hence no-one knew of a William Henry. However, with the help Lindsey I have found his marriage to a Vera Bates who my mum knew to have married a Bert. I believe he was known as Bert to differentiate between him and his father who was also called William Henry

Thank you EVER so much for your help

Janette xx

I have just been in touch with my mum and she says the death you suggested will be of her uncle Albert as he died the year she was born Thank you once again :)

Janette x

Yes that will be the right Enid acorrding to my mum as she died six weeks after she married.

Something of the pancreas, so I'm told. The whole family was not blessed. Enid died age 25, William age 38, Bertha age 1, Albert age 20 and apparentley there was another child Betty who as a child ate some gooseberries and contracted a disease which she died of!

Thanks ever so much Janette!

In fact there were only 2 children Vera my great-grandmother and Barbara who lived to a fair old age!