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I can't find my husband's grandmother???

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Shauna

Shauna Report 12 Sep 2007 19:50

Hello everyone, this is my first time on the board, and I need any help you can offer me.

My husbands grandmother, Helen Lawrence, died 5 years ago, and it's always been a mystery who she was as she was a bit of a story teller, most of it not true. My mother in law knows that she was fostered when she was 4 years old, and the surname of the foster family was Noble. Her birth however is not on any databases anywhere. I have looked under different spellings, and up to 2 years either side of her known birth date but there is no sign of her. There is no paper work for us to see that was cleared up after she died, and we are at a complete loss. I have ordered her marriage certificate, and it gives fathers name as Edward Lawrence, but I have nothing else to go on.

Please, if anyone out there can give me any advice on where to look I would be most grateful.

Shauna

Daniel

Daniel Report 12 Sep 2007 19:55

What year was she born?
Where is she from?

If she was fostered, did she originally live in a different place or was she fostered to a family in the same area?

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 12 Sep 2007 20:07

What was her married name? Her death record might give a clue to when the informant thought she was born.

Kath. x

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 12 Sep 2007 20:36

Shauna has her being born c1920.

Rose

Heather

Heather Report 12 Sep 2007 20:46

Surely there must be a more accurate date if she only died 5 years ago? Whats her name at death?

Marilyn

Marilyn Report 12 Sep 2007 20:46

Shauna,
I believe Helem M. Lawrence could be her, Henley registration district 3a 2066 1920. Mothers maiden name GALE July/Sept.

Heather

Heather Report 12 Sep 2007 20:48

Silly mistake on the name there. Mind you Im listed as Hoather!LOL. I have told them.

Did we know Henley as the right district?

Do we know if she is the eldest?

Is there pming going on???

Shauna

Shauna Report 13 Sep 2007 18:19

Thanks to those who have sent me an email, and for the rest of you, here's a little more info. I'm sorry but I was a bit vague the first time.

According to her death registration on ancestry, Helen Joyce Edwards, nee Lawrence was born 26/12/1920. I don't know where, but her foster parents, the Noble family, lived in the London area.

Helen Joyce Lawrence married John Ernest Sydney Green in Lambeth register office on 7th June 1947, and her father was named as Edward Lawrence, a welfare officer. This was news to us as she told her daughter, my mother in law, that she didn't know who her parents were, and that she was fostered when she was 4 years old.

She later married David T Stanley Edwards, but I think that it was abroad and there is no registration for it. She lived in Carmarthen with him and died a widower in Feb 2003.

I hope this is more helpful to you all, and thanks again for your help.

Shauna

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 13 Sep 2007 19:45

Hi Shauna,

What was her age on her marriage certificate?

Rose