Genealogy Chat

My grandad, Albert Horton, no longer alive apparently had a brother who died in the war and a sister who nobody ever seen due to medical conditions but no one in my living family can remember there names. I know their mother's maiden name may have been Price and their dad's was Horton, but this is al I have really. Any suggestions experts???

Do you know your grandad's date and place of birth?

If you can find his birth registration and he was born after 1911 then his mother's maiden name will be in the birth index. You could then look a few years either side of his birth looking for another Horton birth with the same mother's maiden name.

Kath. x

Is this your grandfather's birth reg'n?

Name: Albert E Horton
Year of Registration: 1920
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Mother's Maiden Name: Price
District: Aston
County: Warwickshire
Volume: 6d
Page: 970

Reg

Ye, I've got my grandads exact date of birth and his mother's maiden name, so that could work... cheers Kath x

If the above is correct then this is in the same district:-

Births Sep 1913
Horton Frederick V Price Aston 6d 784

and this:-

Births Dec 1914
HORTON Frank B Price Aston 6d 754

and this:-

Births Jun 1917
Horton Frank Price Aston 6d 723


Kath. x

Weldone Reg, u r a super star, that is my grandad! x

Ye, that looks good Kath, my grandad was born in Aston also x

No joy on the sister??? x

Have you tried looking on freebmd?

The info posted above is all from that site..........or the Ancestry version..............

Reg

As Reg says, have a look on FreeBMD. There are girls with the surname Horton and mother's name Price but in different areas, and as I'm not sure which areas are near to Aston, I can't be sure if any of them are "yours". There may also be more births on the complete index at a later date than FreeBMD covers.

Kath. x

Thanks guys x

The girl may have been born before MMN was added to the index.

You need to find out the names of the parents........then look for their marriage.

Reg

Wonder if this is the parents' marriage?

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page

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Marriages Mar 1909 (>99%)
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HORTON Frederick Henry Birmingham 6d 215
PRICE Eleanor Birmingham 6d 215

but there is a Solihull marriage in 1910 for Frederick George to Winifred.


Can't believe so many Hortons married Prices!

Good luck
Joan

If you put CWGC in your google search you can look for the brother who was killed...
Joan