Find Ancestors

Hi,am trying to find any info out about my granny and grandad..then hopefully work my way back from there.My granny was called Edna Grey and she was born in 1919 i think.She married my grandad George William Charlesworth born 1911,though have no dates for the marriage.They lived in Gainsborough..possibly Burns street.I know nothing about them..brothers or sisters of them are a mystery to me.They had 10 children including my mum.I would be gratefull if anyone could PLEASE help with anything regarding them.I am so new to this i have to dry behind my ears on an hourly basis!Thanks,Dawn.

Do you recognise any of these as your granny?

Births Sep 1917 (>99%)
Grey Edna M S Gregory Bristol 6a 3 Scan available - click to view
Births Mar 1920 (>99%)
Grey Edna Forster Tynemouth 10b 544 Scan available - click to view
Births Sep 1921 (>99%)
Grey Edna F Graham Sunderland 10a 1640 Scan available - click to view
Births Mar 1924 (48%)
Grey Edna Greenfield Glanford B. 7a 1187 Scan available - click to view

no,am sure she was born in Gainsborough.Pretty certain i have spelt Grey right,but now wondering if it is Gray.Thanks so much for getting back to me.It is really hard as my mum died when i was young and so can't ask her.

Think she was born in January..though not 100% on that.Sorry not much help.

Finding no birth for Grey in Gainsborough between 1915 and 1928, some for Gray but no Edna. Could this have been a middle name? Do you know her mother's maiden name?

Liz

No sorry,will try and get hold of some of my aunts in this next week and see what they can tell me.I promise i will get back to you with some info,but as in middle of six wks hols,not always easy to pin down a date.I will keep checking my threads.Thanks so much,so kind of you,and am really looking forward to finding out more about my family!Thanks

Sorry Dawn, not having much luck with George either. Try and find what you can and I'll keep an eye out for your thread.

Liz

Hi again,sorry for delay...right...best i can do is full names and dob' for my 2 grandparents.George william charlesworth born 22/1/1911 and edna gray born 17/1/1919.Is that any help.My aunt says my gran was not a big talker..and i can agree with that!If we can find anything on them would be brilliant.Thanks a lot for even trying.Dawn.

Here's the death entry:

Civil Registration event: Death
Name: CHARLESWORTH, Edna
Registration District: Lincolnshire
County: Lincolnshire
Year of Registration: 2005
Month of Registration: March
Date of Birth: 17 January 1919
District No: 6091J
Reg No: J2D
Ent No: 299
DOR: 0305

Still can't find a birth either Grey or Gray and nothing for George. Are you sure they were born Lincolnshire?

When did they marry? If you don't know, when was the first child born?

Regards
LfW

Am trying to find out dob for oldest child.I always thought they were from, lincs but iam double checking.My grandad died when some of the kids(there were 10..though 2 sets of twins) were quite young so they don't know much,and my granny was a lovely sweet person who never said a word barely about anything personal.Will keep trying for as much info as i can,and see where it gets us when i get it.Thanks so much for trying,really appreciate it.

Hi Dawn,
Nothing new to add except these two births which weren't there last time I looked. They've been newly transcribed and maybe your grandparents haven't been transcribed yet.


Births Mar 1919 (51%)
Grey Edna Borthwick S. Shields 10a 1254 Scan available - click to viewEntry added since last update
Grey Edna Veitch Sunderland 10a 924 Scan available - click to viewEntry added since last update


Liz


Births Mar 1919 (51%)
Gray Edna Evans Barnsley 9c 367 Scan available - click to view
Gray Edna E Vincent Stockbridge 2c 185 Scan available - click to view
Gray Edna J Wills W. Derby 8b 494 Scan available - click to view

ok,when i get hold of someone in my familt who am lled to believe will be able to help,i will ask him.Thanks a million.

These are the births for George Charlesworth in the 1st quarter of 1911

Charlesworth George Hunslet 9b 442
Charlesworth George Shoreditch 1c 21
Charlesworth George B Uttoxeter 6b 361
Charlesworth George W Pontypridd 11a 543

Teresa

Let us have the names of some of the 10 children - we could look for them to find oldest and work from there.

Teresa

Found the marriage:

Sept qrt - 1937

Charlesworth George W - Gray Edna - Gainsbro - 7a 2402

You could really do to get this certificate, it will hopefully give ages, occupations and addresses as well as their fathers names and occupations.

Regards
LfW

Children:

Births:
Dec qrt 1937 - Charlesworth Roy - mmn Gray - Gainsbro - 7a 940

Mar qrt 1940 - Charlesworth Pauline - mmn Grey - Gainsbro - 7a 2151

Sep qrt 1944 - Charlesworth John - mmn Gray - Gainsbro 7b 1362

Mar qrt 1948 - Charlesworth David - mmn Gray - Gainsbro - 3b 298

Mar qrt 1949 - Charlesworth Margaret - mmn Gray - Gainsbro - 3b 280

Jun qrt 1951 - Charlesworth Michael A - mmn Gray - Gainsbro - 3b 282

Twins:
Dec qrt 1952 - Charlesworth Joan - mmn Gray - Gainsbro - 3b 245
Dec qrt 1952 - Charlesworth Susan - mmn Gray - Gainsbro - 3b 245

Can't see anymore births for Charlesworth mmn Gray in the Gainsbro district, checked up to 1960. A couple of others I found are below.

Regards
LfW

Not sure about this one.
Jun qrt 1952 - Charlesworth John - mmn Gray - Kettering - 3b 723

Their are also 3 births in Lower Agbrigg which I don't think are connected with your family, here's one of them:
Sep qrt 1952 - Charlesworth Alan E - mmn Gray - Lower Agbrigg - 2c 605

ok,wow,thanks so much,you guys are all fab!!Yeah they are all my aunts and uncles and my mum bless them..right complete certificate virgin,so could someone please explain fully what i need to do,as i look at all the info yu guys write down and some of it looks foreign to me!!How exciting!THANKS xxxx

ooh,sorry in my haste a thought you had both sets of grannys twins on there,she had 1 set of identical and 1 set of non identical..we are missing a pat and cath..possibly patricia and catherine,but only ever known them by shortened version,thankyou.

Hi Dawn

These are the details you need to order the cert from the GRO.

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/

Select marriage cert.
When it asks 'Is the General Register Office Index known?' make sure you say 'Yes'
Year = 1937
I normally only use one spouses name - Charlesworth George

Fill in Reference information from GRO Index

Year 1937
Quarter* July Aug Sept
District name* Gainsbro
Volume Number* 7a
Page Number* 2402

Delivery service standard (cost £7) normally 7-10 days.

Make sure you double check the info before paying as the GRO don't refund if it's your error!

Let us know the details when it arrives :-)

Regards
LfW

Do you know if Pat and Cath were older or younger than the other twins?

Regards
LfW