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Albert F died Pontypool, Mar 1959, age 47.

Births of two children in Wales Pmd.

Hi Sylvia - got your PM, and the thread here is absolutely where you should reply. This way the info is available to anyone who might help (and I don't have to toggle back and forth, making me crazy).

I doubt I'm going to be much help here myself ...

Are you in touch with the other children of Albert you name -- Andre, Phillip, Maurice, Jeanette - whichever ones aren't your man? ;)

For instance, there are marriages for an Andre F Gerard, a Maurice A Gerard and a Jeanette Gerard, on a quick search. Many Philips. (The births of Jeanette and Maurice are recorded in Abergavenny, but not the others.)

For the sibs, there is a Pierre JA Gerard marriage in 1946.

You likely don't have Ancestry access, but I'd recommend that you at least take out the 14-day free trial. It could be worth having a browse through the births, marriages and deaths that aren't yet available at FreeBMD, but you could also try there:

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

At Ancestry, you want to look at these indexes:

Deaths 1984 - 2005 (transcribed)
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=7579

Marriages 1916 - 2005 (transcribed)
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8753

Births 1916 – 2005 (transcribed)
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=8782

That way you could read through lists of search results for surname Gerard and see whether any look likely -- it's hard for a third party to browse on someone's behalf like that. ;)

You can try searching those indexes w/o even the free trial subscription just to see what some of the names are, without seeing the date and place details and so on, that you have to pay to see.

If you can identify a marriage for someone of interest, then you can search for children by the surnames of the two spouses.

I checked post-1983 deaths for Emile and Pierre but no luck. At the moment, 1916-1983 isn't searchable at Ancestry, and coverage is spotty at FreeBMD after 1930, but both are catching up and Ancestry's full deaths index is supposed to be available soonish.

If any of that might be useful, let us know!

thankyou for your reply. Very, very comlicated and don't know where to turn to. Albert is my deceased husbands father. I am trying to find his birth certificate and previuos marriages of which there may have been two prior to his marriage to Hilda. Albert and Hilda had 3 sons, Andre, Phillip and Maurice and a daughter Jeanette. Andre and Phillip were both born in Jersey. Not sure about the other two.
Alberts fathers name on marriage certificate is Peter Gerard (gardener domestic)
We believe that some of the names of Alberts siblings are, Emile, Pierre and Adelle/Edelle. From previous marriages he is believed to have had 5 children.
HELP PLEASE

Editing here to add -- Sylvia is now looking for help with finding Jersey BMD records, specifically to find the birth of Albert Francois August Marcelle GERARD (or Girard). (See the 1901 and 1911 census info down the page.)


I'm deleting what I had initially posted here as it my questions have been overtaken by events. ;)

Do you have Albert's father's name from his marriage certificate? The names of any of the siblings?

Born 1912 (ish) died 1959. Place of birth possibly France. Lived, married and died Abergavenny. Possibly came from France but also resided in Jersey. Widower married Hilda Temperance Davies 22 april 1944 Abergavenny. Does he appear in your tree? May have 11 siblings.