Hi Everyone,
I've actually posted this on the "new to family tree forum" but I was kindly referred to the Research Qs & As board. So here I am.
First of all there is something I would like to share with everyone which is exciting for me. I've been really hoping that I could find a living relative on my grandfather's side of the family (surname Brodie). This is I believe is my biggest breakthrough since researching my family history and I've actually found a second cousin who is the son of my grandfather's brother so I've been lucky to find a reasonably close relative of my grandfather's family I believe.
I've now learnt things from my second cousin that I never knew and both of us are now working together but there are still things about the family that he doesn't know so we are both still learning and his father (my grandfather's brother) didn't talk about his family and neither did my grandfather so there's a common denominator there. I've also been told by my second cousin that my grandfather and his father had a stepmother and that they had step siblings but my second cousin doesn't think that my g grandfather and this stepmother was married so the step children could be illegitimate???? maybe a skeleton in my family's closet :o, so I still have some things to work out with my grandfather's family even though my second cousin and I are working together to find out more about the family.
I think I'm going to need help with trying to find out some information for my g grandmother. My newfound second cousin has informed me (and neither one of us can be sure of this information) that my g grandmother died and that my g grandfather remarried or didn't remarry after my g grandmother's death and my g grandfather and the stepmother had children hence the thought of maybe illegitimate children. I can't find at the moment if and when my g greatmother died or separated or divorced from my g grandfather. Maybe my g grandmother could have had disappeared under suscpicious circumstances (this is only my speculation).
My g grandmother's details are -
Ethel Elizabeth BLACK - B abt 1883 in or around Ardwick as she resided in Ardwick in 1891 at 21 Chapel St (only guessing with place of birth and I got the address from one of the census)
Ethel Married John William Brodie 10 December 1902 in St Andrews Church Parish of St Andrew (I have a copy of marriage cert so I know this is correct)
Her residence as per the 1911 census was 280 Victoria Square Oldham Rd Manchester and the last child that I can find that she had with my g grandfather was born 24 Feb 1916 (Stella Brodie), so I am guessing that she's died or separated or divorced from my g grandfather after 1916. I'm stating the obvious here aren't I lol..............:D
I would also like to find out when my g grandfather possibly may have remarried or not remarried and had possible illegitimate children as my second cousin did mention that his father didn't like or get along with his stepmother and left home as soon as he could. So now both my second cousin and I are trying to piece this part of the puzzle as we both think that it would help with a couple of other things as well.
Anyway any help would be appreciated on where I might possibly be able to find this information to find out the details of what happened to my g grandmother and her year of death as well as how I might be able to find out other information of my grandfather's stepmother and any other possible children that my g grandfather may have had with this stepmother.
Thanks in advance to everyone for their help and I will hopefully speak with you soon.
Bye for now.
Joanne
I've actually posted this on the "new to family tree forum" but I was kindly referred to the Research Qs & As board. So here I am.
First of all there is something I would like to share with everyone which is exciting for me. I've been really hoping that I could find a living relative on my grandfather's side of the family (surname Brodie). This is I believe is my biggest breakthrough since researching my family history and I've actually found a second cousin who is the son of my grandfather's brother so I've been lucky to find a reasonably close relative of my grandfather's family I believe.
I've now learnt things from my second cousin that I never knew and both of us are now working together but there are still things about the family that he doesn't know so we are both still learning and his father (my grandfather's brother) didn't talk about his family and neither did my grandfather so there's a common denominator there. I've also been told by my second cousin that my grandfather and his father had a stepmother and that they had step siblings but my second cousin doesn't think that my g grandfather and this stepmother was married so the step children could be illegitimate???? maybe a skeleton in my family's closet :o, so I still have some things to work out with my grandfather's family even though my second cousin and I are working together to find out more about the family.
I think I'm going to need help with trying to find out some information for my g grandmother. My newfound second cousin has informed me (and neither one of us can be sure of this information) that my g grandmother died and that my g grandfather remarried or didn't remarry after my g grandmother's death and my g grandfather and the stepmother had children hence the thought of maybe illegitimate children. I can't find at the moment if and when my g greatmother died or separated or divorced from my g grandfather. Maybe my g grandmother could have had disappeared under suscpicious circumstances (this is only my speculation).
My g grandmother's details are -
Ethel Elizabeth BLACK - B abt 1883 in or around Ardwick as she resided in Ardwick in 1891 at 21 Chapel St (only guessing with place of birth and I got the address from one of the census)
Ethel Married John William Brodie 10 December 1902 in St Andrews Church Parish of St Andrew (I have a copy of marriage cert so I know this is correct)
Her residence as per the 1911 census was 280 Victoria Square Oldham Rd Manchester and the last child that I can find that she had with my g grandfather was born 24 Feb 1916 (Stella Brodie), so I am guessing that she's died or separated or divorced from my g grandfather after 1916. I'm stating the obvious here aren't I lol..............:D
I would also like to find out when my g grandfather possibly may have remarried or not remarried and had possible illegitimate children as my second cousin did mention that his father didn't like or get along with his stepmother and left home as soon as he could. So now both my second cousin and I are trying to piece this part of the puzzle as we both think that it would help with a couple of other things as well.
Anyway any help would be appreciated on where I might possibly be able to find this information to find out the details of what happened to my g grandmother and her year of death as well as how I might be able to find out other information of my grandfather's stepmother and any other possible children that my g grandfather may have had with this stepmother.
Thanks in advance to everyone for their help and I will hopefully speak with you soon.
Bye for now.
Joanne
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