Sorry if it sounds a bit muddled but getting nowhere fast with him.
My father in laws age is stated as 22 years when he married on the 31st March 1956.
Am I right in estimating his birth to be between March 1933 and March 1934? I have gone through the years 1933/34/35 to try and locate his birth, giving me several potential births. I’ve tried to narrow the search area of birth registration to where we believe the family to have lived.
All we know from the family members who knew him (there was a lot of bitterness after they separated in the early 1960s and no contact with the paternal family throughout the last 40 years), is that his family lived in a particular area and that as far as they are aware, always lived in the same place.
I have his fathers name and trade from the marriage certificate, but no details whatsoever to identify other family members. He (f.i.l) died in 1979 and I have this registration giving only an estimated year of birth as 1934, (m.i.l. died in 1968). .
I’ve already received 2 birth certificates for him, one which has the correct father’s name, but the area and trade are different to what we are led to believe as it was a neighbouring district. The other is wrong on both counts.
How else can I try to narrow this down? Is it likely a butchers’ assistant would become a gardener in the 1930-1950’s time scale? Both areas were predominantly mining areas and are only about 7 miles apart. Also as I have another potential match, what’s the likelihood of him being Ronnie on B.C and Ronald on M.C?
Thanks for any suggestions.
My father in laws age is stated as 22 years when he married on the 31st March 1956.
Am I right in estimating his birth to be between March 1933 and March 1934? I have gone through the years 1933/34/35 to try and locate his birth, giving me several potential births. I’ve tried to narrow the search area of birth registration to where we believe the family to have lived.
All we know from the family members who knew him (there was a lot of bitterness after they separated in the early 1960s and no contact with the paternal family throughout the last 40 years), is that his family lived in a particular area and that as far as they are aware, always lived in the same place.
I have his fathers name and trade from the marriage certificate, but no details whatsoever to identify other family members. He (f.i.l) died in 1979 and I have this registration giving only an estimated year of birth as 1934, (m.i.l. died in 1968). .
I’ve already received 2 birth certificates for him, one which has the correct father’s name, but the area and trade are different to what we are led to believe as it was a neighbouring district. The other is wrong on both counts.
How else can I try to narrow this down? Is it likely a butchers’ assistant would become a gardener in the 1930-1950’s time scale? Both areas were predominantly mining areas and are only about 7 miles apart. Also as I have another potential match, what’s the likelihood of him being Ronnie on B.C and Ronald on M.C?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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