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Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 35 Send Message	Rioja	Report	7 Apr 2007 23:27
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 35 Send Message	Hi, I am doing research for a friend, and have a hit a brick wall. I am trying to trace a Jeannie Holman, who had a James Leonard Holman in 1924, in Hexham, Northumberland, and the address looks like the workhouse. No father is listed on the certificate. I have no idea where Jeannie was from, or her age, just that she was working as a cook, domestic in the area. I have worked backwards from 1911 to try and trace her birth and come up with a couple of not very convincing possibilities, but don't know how i could prove any of them are her. I cannot find the house she worked at, South View , Blanchland, in any trade directories... Help! I'm really stuck!!
Member Since: May 2006 Posts: 16,802 Send Message	Click ADD REPLY button - not this link!	Report	7 Apr 2007 23:56
	Claire, You could try searching for a marriage for her. Have you tried Scotland People for a birth? Rose
	Researching: I am not related to you and I'm not your husband's first wife!
Member Since: October 2003 Posts: 6,274 Send Message	Georgina	Report	8 Apr 2007 00:28
	Claire the nearest I can see for a birth is this one, could she have lied about her name? Births Dec 1893 (>99%) Holman Jeannette Margaret Newton A. 5b 99 Georgina.