Genealogy Chat

Thanks folks, I'll give those ideas a try. Jane

Have you tried contacting the researcher who is making a One Name Study of the HURLEY surname? They are registered with the Guild of One Name Studies and may have information logged about your missing people. You can find a link for contact here... http://www.one-name.org/cgibin/search.cgi?find=2344 Gwyn

Well, you could trawl ancestry complete bmd index to find their marriages but an easier way - LOL - if they married before 1920 - you can pay to view on familyrelatives.org - their index is name/area/timespan searchable from 1866-1920 (and I understand that they will shortly be adding 1837-1865). Id do just a surname search for b,m and d which would bring up all those with that name and then wade through deciding who are yours. After 1911 the spouse name is shown ditto maiden name of mum on births.

Just posting the 1901 census for reference... Name: John Hurley Age: 42 Estimated birth year: abt 1859 Relation: Head Spouse's name: Kate Gender: Male Where born: Northfleet, Kent, England Civil parish: Northfleet Ecclesiastical parish: St Botolph County/Island: Kent Country: England Street address: Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Education: Employment status: View image Registration district: Strood Sub-registration district: Northfleet ED, institution, or vessel: 5 Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 145 Household Members: Name Age Douglas Hurley 10 Florence Hurley 11 George Hurley 6 John Hurley 42 John Hurley 19 Joseph Hurley 2 Kate Hurley 36 William Hurley 9 Georgina.

Hi jane Had a quick look on CWGC site - the only one that looks like it might be yours is this one: Name: HURLEY Initials: J Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: South Wales Borderers Unit Text: 2nd Bn. Age: 32 Date of Death: 03/11/1915 Service No: 3/19989 Additional information: Brother of John Hurley, of 82, Cecil Rd., Upton Manor, Plaistow, London. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: I. E. 2. Cemetery: SKEW BRIDGE CEMETERY hope it helps. Looby

Thanks Lin, Let's hope ancestry.co.uk get the pension info on soon then!! Glad it's not just me being thick not being able to find out what happened to them!

Finding people after 1901 is difficult: The commonwealth war graves commission website - http://www(.)cwgc(.)org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14 National Archives - (for medal cards, etc) http://www(.)nationalarchives(.)gov.uk/documentsonline/power-search.asp?searchType=powersearch And ancestry(.)co(.)uk hopes to have all possible WW1 pension records up in the next 12 months - though many have been destroyed Good luck Lin

I've done quite well in researching lots of my family tree back to 1800 or so, however, my great grandmother had several brothers and I can't fathom out what happened to them. I don't have any living family members to ask and I can't find any answers in BMD records etc. I've got there birth records, and 1901 census info, but from there nothing. I posted on the trying to find page months and months ago and nothing so far. Their names / details are:- John Hurley (born circa 1882) (parents John Hurley / Elizabeth Carey) Vincent Douglas Hurley (born circa 1890) (parents John Hurley / Kate Carey) William Joseph Hurley (born circa 1892) (parents John Hurley / Kate Carey) George Sidney Hurley (born circa 1894) (parents John Hurley / Kate Carey) Joseph Frederick Hurley (born circa 1899) (parents John Hurley / Kate Carey) All born / registered Gravesend, Strood, Kent. I'm guessing they probably went off to war, but don't know if they survived it, married, had children etc. Any ideas how I can go further with this line? Thanks, Jane Walker