As you know I am having trouble tracing my Great Grandfather Richard Woods birth. I have had various pieces of advise about this but still not been able to pin point the correct one. A baptism was found for a Richard Woods who lived at the same address as my family in 1881 but it stated he was 2 1/2 at baptism in 1875. As far as I was concerned he should have been born between 1877 - 1880.
So to check a theory I decided to order a death cert for a Richard Woods aged 4 in 1877 to see if he could have been an older brother who died and then my Great Grandfather was born and named after him.
Anyway I ordered this death cert, stating a check for his father name as I only wanted it if his fathers name was John, and after a week I hadnt heard anything so I called the GRO and they said there was nothing to say a refund had been authorised or that it had been dispatched. The lady kindly said she would look into it and get them to deal with it as a priority. I then received an email about this.
Today I have come home to 2 envelopes and believe it or not, both envelopes contained the same cert and the father of the child who died was John Richard Woods!!!!!!. The child died in a workhouse. Now as this was in between census I have no idea if he is related to mine or not as the mother's name was not given. AARRRGGHHH!!!!!!!
So to check a theory I decided to order a death cert for a Richard Woods aged 4 in 1877 to see if he could have been an older brother who died and then my Great Grandfather was born and named after him.
Anyway I ordered this death cert, stating a check for his father name as I only wanted it if his fathers name was John, and after a week I hadnt heard anything so I called the GRO and they said there was nothing to say a refund had been authorised or that it had been dispatched. The lady kindly said she would look into it and get them to deal with it as a priority. I then received an email about this.
Today I have come home to 2 envelopes and believe it or not, both envelopes contained the same cert and the father of the child who died was John Richard Woods!!!!!!. The child died in a workhouse. Now as this was in between census I have no idea if he is related to mine or not as the mother's name was not given. AARRRGGHHH!!!!!!!
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