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Looking for information on Henry Ballard who resided in the Manchester area with wife Lily (nee Fryer) and children Lily (b/1917), John (b/1919) and George (b/1923).
To date have not been able to find marriage or death record for the parents Henry & Lily. Would like to find the marriage record to continue the Ballard line back.

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Looking for any information on Henry Ballard and his wife Lily. Know that they lived in the Stretford/Salford area of Manchester area circa 1920s. Henry Ballard's wife Lily was born 1895 in Salford. She had a daughter Frances in March 1916 with no father's details on the birth certificate. The following year in August 1917 she gives birth to another daughter Lily whose birth certificate shows father as Henry Ballard & mother as 'Lily Ballard formerly Fryer'. This would suggest Henry Ballard & Lily Fryer married between those dates however unable to find any marriage record on the County Record Office Indexes and from GRO. Have not been able to trace any death records for Henry & Lily Ballard.

Thanks

So what was the surname of the child Frances on her birth certificate with no father ( Fryer ?)

EDIT : found it

Births Jun 1916
Fryer Frances M - Fryer - Chorlton 8c 1454


Births Sep 1917
Ballard Lily . F_yer .Chorlton 8c 1229

Can't see a marriage on freebmd.

Maybe they didn't actually marry ...lots didn't.

...... and his name could have been put on the birth certificate IF she told the Registrar that she was married


............ you didn't, and I think still don't, have to show a marriage certificate as proof that your were / are married

There are alos these Ballard / Fryer children.

Are they "yours?


Births Jun 1919 (>99%)

Ballard John H Fryer Chorlton 8c 981


Births Mar 1923 (>99%)

Ballard George E Fryer Salford 8d 174




sylvia

??????? death of Henry

with no idea of when he was born, we are rather looking for a black cat in a coal cellar!




from freebmd.org.uk


Barton is the Registratrion District that includes Stretford


Deaths Sep 1939 (>99%)

Ballard Henry 73 Barton 8c 713




sylvia

Could Lily have possibly been married before?


For example, I found this marriage on freebmd

Marriages Dec 1911 (>99%)

Elleray Edwin Salford 8d 240
Fryer Lily Salford 8d 240
McDermott Mary J Salford 8d 240
Rylance Willie Salford 8d 240



according to Lancs bmd

FRYER Lily RYLANCE Willie Salford Register Office or Registrar Attended Salford SAL/111/128





sylvia

Thank you all for your prompt response.
Little is known about the parents Henry BALLARD and his wife Lily (nee FRYER b/ 1895) and what became of them. I have the birth certificates for Lily together with those of her 4 children:-
1. Frances Morrison FRYER b/ 1916 Hulme, Manchester
2. Lily BALLARD b/1917 Moss Side, Manchester
3. John Henry BALLARD b/1919 Ardwick, Manchester
4. George E. BALLARD b/1923 Salford, Manchester.
It is also believed there was a subsequent child Dennis of which I have yet to find any trace.
I have now resigned myself to the fact that possibly never married. In the meantime I will follow up the 1939 Death record for a Henry Ballard provided by Sylvia. Am hoping that if I can find death/burial records it will enable progress going back on the Ballard side of things.

I have found a baptism record for a Henry ballard born 20/9/1898 parents listed as henry and emily ballard, emilys previous surname was Garner. Henry and Emily were married in Salford 29/1/1898 Emily's father was Henry Garner a metal worker and Henry's father was James henry Ballard who was deceased at the time of their marriage. Could be the right line back?