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I must go and have a shower, been up since 5, it's now 10.30 and not dressed yet.

One of my son's spent a year in Australia about 7 years ago, spent a lot of time in Cairns working, he's a chef, then he went back to UK and a year later went to New Zealand for 3 years..

We're all alone here in Portugal, all family in UK, very lonely at times and miss the grandchildren so much.

Christine

It seems quite likely, but only the birth cert would give his parents names, back to the money issue again.

Christine

Addictive my husband thinks hes a widower.
Is that lead your sending me about thomas' parents

Do you think the thomas roddy and anne reynolds marriage record could be my thomas roddys parents, Pam

Looks as if I'm on the right track as I have found this Anne Reynolds in 1901 and she is in the same area of Leigh as the marriage for Thomas and Mary was. Westleigh, St Peter


1901 England Census
about Anne Reynolds
Name: Anne Reynolds
Age: 17
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1884
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Patrick
Mother's Name: Margaret
Gender: Female
Where born: Wigan, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: Leigh
Ecclesiastical parish: Westleigh St Peter
Town: Leigh
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Leigh
Sub-registration district: Leigh
ED, institution, or vessel: 21
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 256
Household Members: Name Age
John Byrne 38 lodger
Mary A Byrne 36 lodger
John Halligan 26 lodger
Anne Reynolds 17
Edward Reynolds 7
Margaret Reynolds 40 born Castle Eden, Durham
Patrick Reynolds 40 born Wigan, coal miner
Thomas Reynolds 12

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 3594; Folio: 157; Page: 46.

Understand what you mean about giving out credit card details, thought maybe your parents were in England.

It becomes addictive this hobby so beware.lol

Christine

I dont quite understand the threads thing.Guess I better find out so I dont tread on anyones toes.
Keep in mind im new to this site. But so far its the best.
Pam

No mum and Dad hate giving out their credit card details which I understand in this day and age with all the stories you hear. And I dont have one as we are doing the gypsy thing around Australia in a caravan and got rid of all our financial trapings, and you always seem to need a credit card with these things dont you? but God I love this family tree thing and I finally have a bit of a sense of belonging. Being born in Australia and all relatives living in England I have always felt displaced while my friends had auntiea uncles grandparents and cousins I just had mum and dad there no feeling of roots there,

I've just been reading the other thread abot Mary Chadwick and saying you were short of money for buying certs, could you persuade your mum to get the birth cert for you ,lol.

There is also this marriage but again it's a guess

Name: Thomas Roddy
Year of Registration: 1903
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Leigh
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8c
Page: 454

Lancs BMD has the spouse as Anne Reynolds.

There are no Thomas Roddy's living in Leigh in 1901 so it looks as if you're going to have to get a cert to get any further back as you could be tracing the wrong family.

Christine

I could kiss ya thanks for that

Found his death

Q4 1972 Leigh 10d 16

Thomas Roddy birth date 6th Nov 1906

Christine

I dont think so i just rang my mum and she said he died within about 12 months of his first wife in the late sixties or early seventies but he managed to remary in that short time and maybe died of a heartattack in a laneway the dont seem to even know where he was buried
maybe the early seventies he died
Pam

Do you know if he lived in Salford later in life as I have found this death, which is obviously the one born 1903


Name: Thomas Roddy
Birth Date: 6 Jan 1903
Death Registration Month/Year: Jan 1989
Age at death (estimated): 86
Registration district: Salford
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 39
Page: 641

Christine

There is also a birth 1906

Births Dec 1906 (>99%)

Roddy Thomas Leigh 8c 302

This is possibly more likely as it's in Leigh but again it's a guess.

Christine

no but i think he died after 1970 cause his first wife died about then and he remarried quickly
pam

It's difficult to go any further without his actual age and father's name as there area lot of Roddy's in the Lancs area in 1901.

Do you have any idea when he died or if he had siblings?

Christine

thank you now ill have to figure out their births
Pam

This is the site

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/index.html

You can order the certs through there by printing off a form or from

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

You have to quote the ref no I gave if you order from the Gro, certs are £7, only use that site as some other's charge a lot more.

Christine

what is the lancashire bmds ive not used it before

You have made my day thanks so much Pam

The marriage was

Q3 1930 Leigh 8c 609

Thomas Roddy to Mary Chadwick

It's also on Lancahire BMD which can be searched free and it gives the church as Westley, St. Peter.

Christine