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Filling in gaps

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Alison

Alison Report 5 Sep 2018 10:19

I know from the 1911 census that my maternal great grandparents had 11 children 5 of whom died in infancy. By looking at other census years and obituaries in the local paper , and in one case a lucky guess I have managed to track down all but one of the children.I have made a list of the children who were born and died in the area over the appropriate years but this leaves me with several hundred names ( that comes of being called Jones !) . Is there a way of finding my relative from this long list without ordering 100 death certificates ?

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 5 Sep 2018 10:41

You can look on the GRO site for births and it will show mmn before 1911

By elimination on births years and deaths you already know you may see a gap where another child could have been born and died

Plus you can confine your search to area of the births already known

greyghost

greyghost Report 5 Sep 2018 10:54

Use this site for births (and deaths) - you have to register but it's free otherwise.

Gives mmn Q3 1837 to 1917 and ages at death 1837 to 1957 - (freebmd and commercial sites from 1911 - births - and 1866 - deaths)

A bit fiddly as you have to pick a year and can search 2 years either side of that at a time - so you can do 5 year blocks really. You also have to specify male or female each time too. (Watch out for alternate spellings too)

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp

Birth and death certificates can be purchased for £6 - pdf versions to your own computer and can be downloaded. Fine if you don't need then for official purposes and a saving of £3.25

malyon

malyon Report 5 Sep 2018 12:54

can you tell us your gt.grandmothers maiden name

Alison

Alison Report 5 Sep 2018 20:46

Mother's maiden name Lizzie Heath, father George Frederick Jones but sadly children born between 1887 probably 1903 so before the mother's surname was included on the registration.

Alison

Alison Report 5 Sep 2018 21:41

Thanks to all, I didn't know this facility existed on the GRO website, I have successfully tracked down the missing baby.

greyghost

greyghost Report 6 Sep 2018 07:51

Glad you got there Alison. It's really useful and "relatively" new. Brought out as a pilot version with the £6 price, stopped and then restarted with an indefinite end date now.

My g grandma said she had 13 children on the 1911, I'd only come across 10. The other 3 had been born and died between census, but I found them. More fun was the g. uncle - surname Clark/e who married a Clark/e.

One thing I didn't say is that they are unable to distinguish between weeks/months/ years for age at death. The column heading is age in years, so you have to allow for that if you're expecting a very young death. 4 years could be 4 months etc!

mgnv

mgnv Report 7 Sep 2018 21:46

Greyhost - it was true that in the early days, deaths of kids aged < 2 years showed age in months, but they've now "corrected" those entries so the age is always in years.