Genealogy Chat

Does anyone know if the complete BMD is complete. I have some ancestors that do not seem to have been born or even died! Am I looking in vain. Or have I just not looked properly?

Elaine

It is as complete as it can be given human error.

Who are you looking for and when?

Kath. x

Hi
I was looking for Eva Charlotte Bywater 1863. She lived in the Tottenham area. On the census when she married Robery Ivey she gives her bith place as Notting Hill. Its very complicated but her surname could also be Bell.
Thanks
Elaine

hi i had a look under both names and nothing

it is posible that she wasn't regesterd as it wasn't compulery untill 1875

mellie

1891 and 1901 gives her place of birth as Nottinghill

1881 there is a Eva C Wilson born Nottinghill living in Tottenham

Oh bother image for 1881 is very clear as Wilson

How do you know she was born in 1863 if you can't find the registration. Have you checked other years before and after?

Best Wishes

Jane

There is a Eva Emma bywater born in 1863 first quarter that is the nearest I can get

Sorry

Jane

Hi Elaine -- did you mean whether the FreeBMD transcription is complete? (at least for the years covered so far)

Not yet. The mid-1850s have been a particular bugaboo for me. Two years ago, I searched the images back to Q1 1855 for a gr-grfather's sister who stated she was 19 when she married in 1875. Their surname is a great big puzzle, and I was dying to know how she'd been registered when born. Couldn't find her under either known surname, or variants. Fortunately, a wonderful person in the UK searched the Cornwall baptisms for me, and found his and her baptisms, and got me the clincher for my theory (that they'd been born with one surname I'd never heard, and two decades later switched to the one my mother was born as -- still have no clue how or why, although I then knew that the sister had that surname as a middle name).

A new batch of transcriptions came on line in the spring, and there she was, with all the names in question ... two years older than she'd told her husband she was, born one quarter earlier than I'd searched in the images.

You can look up where the gaps are here:

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/progress.shtml

I dunno what gives with the mid-1850s, but I'm hoping they'll sort it out soon!

Thank you everyone for your replys. I have her marriage cert which is where I got her year of birth from. Also the census. I will just have to keep looking!

Elaine,

If you have her marriage cert, what was her father's name and who were the witnesses?

What addresses were listed?

Rose