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Jennie

Jennie Report 28 Jun 2006 20:44

She was known as Iris Launchbury, but she was married before to a Howitt so i suppose she could of used this name. Sorry she is called Williams now. Thanks Jennie

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 28 Jun 2006 20:41

Jennifer You have given us two surnames for Iris......which one is the name under which she married in 1958? Reg

Jennie

Jennie Report 28 Jun 2006 20:34

I am really stuck now i know that Ralph Donovan definately married my gran Iris Williams in 1958. I have looked through the marriages from 1938 up to 1959 and can't find any Ralph Donovans i have been looking at other ways of spelling them but still can't find them. ANy other suggestions welcome. Many thanks Jennie

Jennie

Jennie Report 28 Jun 2006 20:02

Hi Christine i am currently search on the BMD going through every year looking for people with his name is this what you meant with your suggestion. Sorry i am unsure of all the abbreviated terms. Thank you Jennie

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 28 Jun 2006 19:47

I suspect you're in for a long trawling session. The GRO index images are available free, semi-indexed, on Ancestry (that's not the same as the FreeBMD database of transcriptions of the GRO index, currently mostly transcribed up to about 1910). If you can find the previous marriage first (allowing him to have been 15 - just too early, but making sure you don't miss the earliest - looking up until the date of the marriage you know about) that will give you the mother's maiden name (MMN). Then you can look for children born around the time of the 1st marriage up to the date of the 2nd one, and that have the MMN you found via the 1st marriage record. Hope that makes sense. Christine

Jim The Ferret

Jim The Ferret Report 28 Jun 2006 19:43

You might do better topost this on the TRYING TO FIND board. Make sure that the heading is just the surname so that serached find it

Researching:
Nelhams Kemp in Glamorgan/Somerset Dyer in Hailey Willows/Willers

Jennie

Jennie Report 28 Jun 2006 19:37

Hi i am looking for some help. My mums father is called Ralph Donovan born 27/08/1923 boston Lincolnshire he married Iris Launchbury born 13/12/1926 Boston Lincolnshire he married her about 1958. Before he married Iris Launchbury he was married but i am unsure who to but i do know that they had a son, which makes him my mums half brother. My mum is now looking to contact him and i thought seeming as i was doing her side of the family tree at the moment i would help look for him. The question is i am stuck and don't know what to do. Can you please help me. Many thanks Jennie