Auntie Mary!!

[droopdrawers]

I know her maiden name and that she was married to Uncle Tom. They had one son called Peter..

I know they lived in Preston 60 years or so ago. I don't know the married name. Auntie Mary [nee Phillipson] was born in Carlisle 1907

How do I find Toms surname?

Any idea where I go from here please.

I am making a hash of this research as I do a bit then leave it a while.

Thanks DD

[craft1948]

sorry dd.....ancestry's server appears to have just crashed. Any idea when their son was born?

[dothawkes31]

Dawson? Possibly? Peter dawson birth Q3 1944 Preston, father Thomas Dawson mother mary Phillipson married preston Q2 1931. Also possibly had a daughter ann in 1936.

[droopdrawers]

Thats it dothawkes31,,,,my old brain is a bit on the tired side. I had it a long time see.

I have puzzled long and hard trying to remember her married name.

What I don't remember is a daughter tho. Peter I remember him visiting my parents with his Mother possibly late 40s early 50s.

Thanks for your kind help.

DD

[Rose Maybud]

Re Anne Dawson. There was a death for an Anne Dawson age 4 in Mar Q 1941 in the registration district of Amounderness, Lancashire. Ref 8e 1366 :(

[dothawkes31]

Amounderness is the regisration district based on the ancient Amonderness Hundred which was between the Leyland Hundred and the Lonsdale Hundred and was the administration area of the Quarter sessions as opposed to the Ecclesiatical area covered by the diocese.
In the 1940s for civil registration purposes it would have been the area Norht of Preston I think Fulwood up to Garstang, almost Doc Spock country infact!

[dothawkes31]

P.S. I am in Preston BTW.

[droopdrawers]

Thankyou again. My word you are a mine of information Dot.

Can I ask something to anyone who is reading and able to answer so many ancestry questions.

I assume you have paid huge subscriptions to have access to so much information. How does this work? Can anyone have this access?

I am in awe of your knowledge. I look at things but until it is spelt our to me I really do find it difficult

Thankyou DD

[Rose Maybud]

There is a website http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
which gives you free access to the index entries for the births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales since civil registration of these events started in September 1837. This is a great help indeed. The indexes are transcribed by volunteers and the task is by no means complete, so results get a bit patchy (not a criticism by any means! just an observation) around the time you have enquired about. It took me a while to work out the best way to use the site, and some knowledge of registration districts is helpful. For example, my parents, grandparents were born in Bristol, which was split over two counties (Gloucestershire and Somerset) and on a district basis you need to consider Clifton, Bristol, Bedminster, Barton Regis, Long Ashton as districts were rearranged and renamed. So it isn't always straightforward.
The other free site is http://www.familysear...I.asp&clear_form=true
which holds the data from the International Genealogy Index (IGI for short), which can be helpful in tracing events before 1837. Not comprehensive, as it relies on first, the information surviving and being available, and second, Members of the Mormon church collecting and presenting the data, so thus is a secondary source. Useful at times.

[Rose Maybud]

Part II - then as you say there are genealogy sites where you either 'pay as you go' or take out a subscription. For that you get access to Census returns (fully searchable) 1841 - 1911, Parish records pre-1837, again, not complete, but useful on occasions; and the Indexes to births, marriages and deaths, not at present fully searchable. You enter the name and date range and you get a list to check one by one, just as you would if you were handling the actual book. These sites also have assorted other records, eg military, migration and some specialist records. There are several sites: I went for FindMyPast, but Ancestry is probably more popular and the important question of 'how much does it cost?' is answered on the sites. There are other sites for Scotland and Ireland. As with anything, it takes a while to get the hang of using these sites efficiently and I'm still going through this process :)
Dot, Craft and the others are quite brilliant, as you have noticed, and of course the best bit about them is their willingness to help us lesser mortals. Big thanks to them!

[droopdrawers]

Thankyou for such informative posts Rose Maybud.

I will try and spend some time looking at those sites.

I struck gold when I was looking into Scotland for some information, in that via Google I found a cousin I never knew existed. He immediately put me in touch with an Adopted cousin in the States who had indeed done a lot of work on the Scottish side of the family. I got all her completed information and I was able to return the favour with the bits I had gleaned.
A long way to go yet tho.
Thanks to all on here for being so helpful

DD