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Oh dear calling on FANS BEFORE 10AM!!!!

Hi Kathy.......hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it?? I often wished I had listened more when my mum and grandma were talking about my grandma's father - he is my disappearing man!!!

The innocence of youth!


I'll bring your family query to Fans attention.........she is the one who can skim through these things and get her brain into gear at the same time. I can just find the right page and she's finished!!



*******FANSSSSSSSSSSS********


Can you drop the concrete for a mo......you're needed.......Fanks. :-D

To think ladies that I actually worked in Somerset House for almost 8 years and had access to every register and I never bothered because a )I was at teenager and not interested and b )my family were all Scottish !!!! Little did I know that they crossed the border and some of them died in England

How I wish now I could go back in to those vaults !

Just a thought a few pages back I recorded families who had children with a mother Catherine and children Donald and Isabella inStornaway at the 1901 census . Anyone think it might be worth looking into further ????


Kathy

Enjoy your bath Viv and have a nice rest, its lovely having a friend like you XX <3

Rain and fatigue did it Cynthiaaaaa.....

Feeding time at the zoo and then a nice long hot bath....
Day off tomorrow and then back to it on Sunday...

Anyone who knocks on my door,phones me or shouts loudly outside my house or revs their car or honk their horn before at least 10 am will be told their very short term horoscope.....Thank you all... :-D

Wonder what dragged Fans away from her concrete???


If Diane's records are in a cupboard somewhere, I reckon the cupboard is made of invisible material.............. :-D

If Diane was reg abroad to Forces Personnel of the Scottish variety then IF she was reg under whatever name her birth would be found on ScotlandsPeople under" Services".
Nothing/zero/zilch/Nada has been found by searching SP and even have someone who was most helpful search the registers for her at Edinbrugh...Nowt of her to be seen...

FMP hold Births reg abroad to Forces personnel and citizens(M.I.Ls found in Latvia.!)and again nothing on there...
India Office/Familysearch/Ancestry/Fmp and SP all well and truly turned upside down and inside out.

If there was a birth reg of a Diane Leslie Macleod anytime between 1895 and 1911 then it certainly must be well hidden in that store cupboard with another I have searched hard and long for...My own Great grandfather (every possible birth cert for him under every spelling and yearish sent for across the country is now in my file along with one that I do believe is him as correct parents but not the Christian name he used from C 1878 on his Naval records )and also another of a friends greatgrandfather(similar story with Naval records holding a Christian name that does not wish to be found).......Any sightings of any of the above 3 please post details on here...Thank you...Fans... :-P

Hello Eileen, Diane wouldnt take up much room in a store cupboard she was only about 4ft 10 inches tall and weighed about 6st 8 lb, very petite.
As I have said chances are IF she was the daughter of a service man serving abroad maybe she was never registered.
She sure is a woman of mystery

As Susan mentions above, the Forces births,marriages & deaths were in separate registers. They were held at Myddelton Street in London but where were they moved to when that office closed? If they were not incorporated into 'freeBMD'/Ancestry records then it might be worth tracking them down. Diane could still be hiding in a store cupboard somewhere. GRO at Southport may know where they are. Good luck to all those helping Evelyn.

That is very true Evelyn - I imagine Fans would be quite lethal with that concrete!!! :-D



LK ...... I remember looking at that link a while ago but can't remember (without looking back), who suggested it.


Thanks all.

Just for once I am glad not to live close to dear Fans as she might concrete me into something because of all the trouble I have given her with my mother.
Yes Cynthia the folks here are wonderful, just look at all the hours they have spent on this thread, I am so grateful to you all.
I have my doubts that we will ever trace her but it wont be for lack of trying
THANK YOU EVERYONE XXX <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Hello each and everyone.

Sue, no record has been found of Diane's birth - anywhere! The possiblity of her name being something else has also been discussed - Donaldina, Dolinda etc. Zilch. Zero. Nuffink.


I posted the precis of Diane's story a page or so ago. So much work has been put into this search and it's a tribute to the wonderful people on here who are prepared to offer help.

Keep it coming....one day.....one day...........we may hit the jackpot :-D


Fans will be around again once she has finished concreting...what can one say??? :-D

Hi Evelyn.
According to Google the name Diane didn´t start to become popular until the 1920s/30s & peaked in the 1950s/60s.
Possibly Diane liked the name & decided to use it. It was probably something similar to her actual name.
Wouldn´t think it was her given name in 1906. More likely to have been Diana or Dinah or even an Indian name if she really was born there.
I suppose she couldn´t have been Anglo Indian could she?

Many years ago when my son and I went to Edinburgh and started looking for mother s roots a gentleman at the records office informed us that back in 1906 service men whose children were born abroad did not have to register them and many did not, so suggested that was why there was no registration for Diane BUT he also queeried that her name was Diane as he said it was a very unusual name at that time

Evelyn as you were named after Godmother do you know if there are any links to your brothers names?

An interesting thread.
Has this been looked at FBG?

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=104834

Hi Evelyn

I don't think it would make any difference really if she was born in Delhi or Bombay ,if her father was in the forces stationed in India her birth would or should have been recorded the same as my OH"s rellie was.

My own Grandfather was stationed in May Mau Burma in 1932 ,his wife and child was with him and my Mother and her Twin sister were born there.
She had no trouble getting her birth cert from Somerset house,I have it with me as my mother died 30 years ago today actually.

I have not read all of your thread but do you have her birth cert and does it say she was born Diane Leslie Macleod,it just seems strange that there is no record of her pre 1929 as you have stated.

I am going to look through all the miltary records for Robert Macleod tonight just incase there is something in a record that has been missed.
Wish me luck

Suex

Mother said she was born in Delhi, India

I have just dug out a birth cert issed in Bombay 1840 for my OH"S family .
This man and his wife had children in Karrachi Bombay and the certs came from Sommerset house England as he was in the Forces there
He was in Camp Karrachi his majestys 40th Regiment.

" It states Certfied Copy of entry in an Army Book of Births Batisms Marriages and Deaths "

If Diane was born in Bombay I am sure you should be able to get her birth cert from Somerset house as well or am I missing something here.
Suex

Good Morning everyone,
My 3 brothers are still alive but I have talked with them and they dont have any further information neither do they show a lot of interest in the subject, I think they feel I am silly to be interested and ask why would I be wanting to know about someone elses past?(cos I am female and Nosey, I tell them)
I honestly dont know if mother had siblings.. Re the BBC programme I really couldnt cope with it at this time, life is VERY stressful , not being very computer literate I dont understand about the website idea.
Thank you all for your interest and help
Love to you all
Knackered Evelyn XX. <3