Genealogy Chat

Thank you Linda re the reference for Florence's birth certificate. I will be in England in July and hope to retrace 'footsteps' of the family. I will also try to order certificates as I find them so that information is very good.

Carole

Carole,

Do you know roughly where and when James died?

Rose

Rose, my information is in Bournemouth either 1934 or 1936.
Thanks, Carole

Rose, I am working on an absolute outside chance. The marriage cert you sent re John Hassall had parents Henry Hassall and Clara Bennett. I put those names into my tree as parents of James and had quite a few matches. I am wondering if you or someone who has access to census records could look for me to see if in the 1901 census there is a Henry Hassall who had a son James???
If we keep plugging away we will come up with something eventually.
Thanks, Carole

Found his death:

Deaths Sep 1936
Hassall James 49 Poole 5a 229

So he was born c1887.

Rose

So could be one of these:

Births Jun 1887
Hassall James Salford 8d 120
Hassall James Nantwich 8a 388

Births Sep 1887
HASSALL James Chester 8a 394
HASSALL James Stone 6b 27

Rose

Thank you Rose, you are wonderful.
What does "Poole 5a 229" mean, sorry about my ignorance.
I'm going offline now, will check back in later.
Carole

Poole is the registration district, 5a is the volume and 229 is the page. You use these when you order a certificate.

This explains: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/distvolpage.html

Rose

Don't see anything on the passenger lists for James and Florence. Did your mother have any siblings?

Rose

Hi Rose,
Thanks for confirming re Poole.

I too have looked at passenger lists and haven't found anything. James & Florence went back to England from Canada about 1928. My mother Dorothy was their only child born in Toronto in 1925.
I have also looked at passenger lists for my mother when she went to NZ in 1946, and Florence (who had remarried at this stage) in about 1948. The lists show nothing which leaves me not very confident in them.
Thank you again.
Carole