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I have put up a photo of me and my second cousin on facebook. Thanks to all who's research made this possible. xxxxx

Hi all

I need Bertha's date of death please. Another tree has it as 1930. I have checked this on the free family search site and got nothing. I have searched on Gr from 1921 to 1931 and found nothing!!!

Please help

With thanks

Debi

Sigh, you just keep on thanking Dea on facebook for finding your grandmother ... who was it who did that, again?


Name: Bertha Beckett ?
Birth Date: abt 1871
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1930
Age at Death: 59
Registration district: Leeds North
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume: 9b
Page: 347


That's from Ancestry.

It's also at FreeBMD, which is where you look for registered births, marriages and deaths, not familysearch.

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

Deaths Jun 1930
Beckett Bertha 59 Leeds North 9b 347

Thank you Janey!

YOU ARE A STAR!!!

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ps. I've edited FB.

Great pic, btw. ;-)

I've "met" (but not *met*) a half-dozen people, since doing this stuff, with whom I share grx2 grandparents -- in the US, Canada and England. Funny, since none of my grx2 grparents and only half my gr-grparents ever set foot out of England.

My mum's grandparents all moved to Canada so I know who all their descendants are. The one new descendant of the same gr-grparent that I've met through here -- we share my dad's grandfather, so our fathers were half-cousins -- wasn't interested at all. Which I found a little odd. We're the same relation as you and your new cousin.

Maybe what I now suspect is actually true and he knows or suspects it ... that the name on his great-grandfather's marriage certificiate (to his new wife after my gr-grmother died) isn't actually my gr-grfather, it's my grandfather, and he didn't die, he came to Canada ...

:-D

The Pullan family mystery!!!

My newly found second cousin has found out the following...

On Berthas marriage certifcate, she calls herself BERTHA GREAVES PULLAN, she also gives her fathers name as Francis Greaves Pullan. Often, maiden names of mothers are included in the names of male children to keep the name alive. I went to the Sheepcar records office to look at the marriage register for William Greaves and Rebecca Giles (Francis's parents) to see if Rebeccas name had been wrongly transcribed but no, it was quite clear her surname was Giles. I wondered if she had been married previously, so consulted the IGI and found her birth 9th Feb 1812 and William Giles, her father registering her birth. When I obtained William and Rebeccas death certs, the informant on both to be Mary Bedell, the couples first child. When I traced Mary I found her with her first husband Richard Stevens and their child Emma Stevens, also with the family, named as a visitor is a MARY PULLAN - widow, age 63 (1788 Wortley) on the 1851 census. Richard died in the second quarter in 1851. Perhaps MARY PULLAN went there to help young Mary nurse her sick husband???
When I tried to find MARY Pullan on the 1841 and 1861 census's it was inconclusive. Also Francis's older brother Thomas was also given the name PULLAN as it is on his death cert.
The age of MARY PULLAN suggests she could be a relative of Williams, but how she is linked maybe will remain a mystery.

If you can shed any light on this continuing story, please let me know.

Come on Janey, Dea, Joy, Fanny and others who have helped me in the past...thinking caps on!

Best wishes

Debi.x