Genealogy Chat

Thanks all,

I have just ordered the certificate so i will let you know when I have received it.

J
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hi
this is where i got the info from

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

Thanks all; it's really appreciated.

SAFC - where will I find that record? I have checked Anc and there is nothing there for that volume.

Jo
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I think you have to buy the marriage certificate to get her father's name.

Marriages Mar 1918 (>99%)
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Blacklock Edith St C Bradbury Newcastle T 10b 295
Bradbury Robert Blacklock Newcastle T. 10b 295

Yes, it does look as if safc has found the correct one. However the date given is the baptism date and Edith could have been any age when she was baptised, so it doesn't help with finding the right birth - especially as the GRO will not now do checking points.

Kath. x

Well, it certainly looks as if safc has the correct one but father's name is William.

This is the birth of Edith M. Blacklock (probably the one who married in 1913 to Sinclair):-

Name: Edith Millicent Blacklock
Year of Registration: 1883
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Barton Regis
County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 87

Kath. x

Name: Edith St. Clair Blacklock
Gender: Female
Baptism/Christening Date: 19 Mar 1891
Baptism/Christening Place: Christ Church, New Castle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England
Birth Date:
Birthplace:
Death Date:
Name Note:
Race:
Father's Name: William Blacklock
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Ann Blacklock
Mother's Birthplace:
Mother's Age:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C02034-1
System Origin: England-EASy
Source Film Number: 1469115
Reference Number: item 6 p 343
Collection: England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

There is a picture of Dame Clara Butt here:-

http://www.trevormidgley.com/ClaraButt/index.html

Kath. x

I wouldn't worry too much about ages on the census - some of my lot gained a lot less than 10 years between some census. I dond't think some of them had any idea how old they were.

Kath. x

Going to order the cert;
Coincidence??
There is an Edith M Blacklock - Married a Sinclaire in March 1913; Which could be mistaken for St Clair...

RE my previous post it was a Dame Clara Butt?

Just another q
If the 1911 census is her then she was 23,
1901 census 13 (a possilbe match)
Which should make the 1891 aged 3 - she is listed as aged 7??

A tree on Ancestry says she was born 16 Feb.1891, Newcastle, daughter of William Blacklock & Ann Atkinson.

Edit: OOPS! It's your tree!

There's an Edith Blacklock on the 1891 census but she's 7, making her born 1884. She was born Newcastle and her parents are John & Annie.

There seems a 'rabbit off' which is why it is bugging me.

Just checked incase the informant gave his dads dob but that was 1 June 1887.

There is also a family 'story' that the St Clair was because she was named after a Dame Clara ?? because a relative had been her dresser.

x

Men are notoriously bad at remembering peoples ages (apologies to men!!), but you would think he would at least have the day and month correct - in which case the Sept. qtr. birth would seem wrong.

I think you really need the marriage certificate to see what age she says she is on there (although again many people lie about their age on marriage certificates). At least it will hopefully give you her father's name.

Kath. x

It was her eldest son who was the informant.
x

Unfortunately you cannot view certificates online.

Kath. x

Who was the informant on the death certificate?

Edith may not have liked to admit she was older than everyone thought.

Kath. x

Which all fits in; other than the dob from the death certificate.

Is there anywhere online where I can pay to view the certificate; rather than waiting for it to arrive?

Possible marriage of parents?

Marriages Mar 1885 (>99%)
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BLACKLOCK John Stafford Newcastle T. 10b 13
Marshall Annie Newcastle T. 10b 13