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Info on Blanche Smith-complicated!!

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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° Report 22 Nov 2008 00:14

Use the FreeBMD for the births. You can enter the surname with MMN but only ffrom 1911.

Also note
Not all the above births can be yours as the dates are too close together. You will need to order some certs which will cost you £7 each from the GRO

Shani

Shani Report 22 Nov 2008 00:07

Many thanks for that!! That gives me something to work on! Can I ask how you found those? I didn't think it was possible to work forward finding children rather than ancestors? I would like to find out the children of some other relatives but don't know how to do it other than trawl through records year to year?
Shani

Diddydoris

Diddydoris Report 5 Sep 2008 16:23

All Smith/Durbin births


Births Mar 1914
SMITH George H Durbin Bristol 6a 61
Births Sep 1914
Smith Ferra W Durbin Pontypridd 11a 1466
Births Sep 1915
Smith Leonard J Durbin Pontypridd 11a 1382
Births Mar 1916
Smith Rosina Durbin Bristol 6a 95
Births Jun 1917
Smith Winifred M Durbin Long Ashton 5c 753
Births Dec 1917
Smith Albert A Durbin Pontypridd 11a 1180
Births Dec 1919
Smith Blanche Durbin Pontypridd 11a 1529
Births Dec 1921
Smith Doreen M Durbin Bristol 6a 130
Births Jun 1925
Smith Joan E Durbin Pancras 1b 35
Births Sep 1929
Smith Bernard Durbin Pontypridd 11a 971

Diddydoris

Diddydoris Report 5 Sep 2008 16:17

Blanches parents?

Marriages Sep 1913
>>>Durbin Elizabeth J Smith Pontypridd 11a 1302
Jones Hannah Margery Pontypridd 11a 1302
Margery Edgar Jones Pontypridd 11a 1302
>>>Smith Albert A Durbin Pontypridd 11a 1302

Shani

Shani Report 5 Sep 2008 15:53

My grandma Blance Naomi Smith was born in 1919 possibly in Pontypridd, mother maiden name possibly Durbin - I am currently awaiting her birth certificate. Family understand she was dumped on Brighton Town hall steps as a baby as she had polio- not sure if true and apparently she was one of 24 children born to a romany family who passed most of their children onto other members of the family.
She lived most of her adult life in Norfolk Terrace in Brighton and had a couple of marriages before her death in 1998. She had 2 children, Valerie and Anthony (Tony) O'brien - my father (who I am also trying to trace)
Very complicated!! Any leads would be great!
Shani