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Hi, I have just joined genes reunited as I have been coming up against so many dead ends in my quest!
I have found a birth certificate for my great aunt but can not find a marriage certificate of the parents named on it. I can not find a birth certificate at all for my grandmother!
Is there any straightforward way of finding out siblings of relatives?

Any suggestions greatly welcomed! :-D

Try putting the details on Find ancestors, maybe someone can help you

if you put details on here i am sure someone will help you

good luck

Find Ancestors is THE best place.;-)

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Thanks for all the kind responses, after viewing more than 500 records I do hope some can help! Deep breath, here we go ...

I am looking for my Grandmother, Millicent Louise French born in 1921, place unknown. It is not the Millicent French with the mother Mouland, this is the only one who keeps coming up and I have been through that family and it isn't the right person unfortunately. My grandmother married Alfred Bateman in Watford, 1943.
Part of the frustration is I only have on solid fact to base my research on, the birth certificate of my great Aunt, Ivy Gertrude French born in Wandsworth, 1919 to Rose Legg and William Henry Brown French. There is a chance that my grandmother had a different mother or father to Ivy.
I have not been able to find any further information for Rose Legg and William French that fits, no marriage certificate and no other children. If they were married before 1912 her name would be listed I believe. I have also not been able to find a birth for William Henry Brown French or anything on the census that adds up. Either William French or Rose Legg, or both, may have died in the early 1920's as my grandmother and great aunt were taken into a convent in Finchley when 'they were young' but don't have a year, and unfortunately the convent has destroyed records for that period.
There is also a brother, or possibly half brother, by the name of Valentine French older than my great aunt and grandmother, but the only record in that name is not the right person as he died too early, my Valentine French was certainly alive in the 1970s, and we believe he would have been born around 1910.

I hope that doesn't sound too messy :-)

When did Millicent Louise die?
Thanks

Sorry, I should have added that, she died in 2nd April 2007 in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
Thanks

Have you got her wedding certificate?

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Births Mar 1911
French Valentine G R Hackney 1b 508

Added:
Presumably this is the too early death
Valentine G R French
Birth Date: abt 1911
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1964
Age at Death: 53
Registration district: Kettering
Inferred County: Northamptonshire
Volume: 3b
Page: 461

1911 for this Valentine
FRENCH, George James Head Married M 73 1838 Private Means London Marylebone
FRENCH, Mary Ann Wife Married 52 years F 79 1832 London Shoreditch
FRENCH, Arthur Brace Son Married M 43 1868 Commercial Clerk London Hackney
FRENCH, Rosetta Maria Whillimina Daughter In Law Married
3 years F 38 1873 London Islington
FRENCH, Thelma Florence Granddaughter F 1 1910 London Hackney
FRENCH, Valentine George Robert Grandson M 0 (1 MONTH) 1911 London Hackney

RG number: RG14 Piece: 1150 Reference: RG14PN1150 RG78PN38 RD11 SD5 ED11 SN20
Registration District: Hackney Sub District: South East Hackney Enumeration District: 11 Parish: St John At Hackney
Address: 31 Groombridge Road South Hackney County:
London

I do, yes. She lists her father as John French (deceased).
However, just to add to the mess, her sister Ivy also listed her father as John French on her original marriage certifcate of 1943 but this was then crossed through and altered in December 1944 by the registrar with a handwritten comment saying "For John French read William Henry Brown French". My grandmothers marriage certificate has not been changed.

Thanks Patchem, that is the only Valentine I found too but he died too early as my mother remembers meeting him at a wedding in the 70s. Of course there is a chance that he was just nicknamed Valentine because he was born around 14th Feb, but I don't know another name for him and haven't found any further children to the parents :-(

When is Millicent's exact birthdate?

Now posted on Find Ancestors Board

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Births Jun 1907
FRENCH Albert Valentine Fulham 1a 355

What was William's occupation?

Rose

A baptism has been found with fathers name of William Henry Brown French on Clarissas other thread on Finding ancestors and his occupation was Horsekeeper...

Thanks for responses - will shift this to find ancestors thread.