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Hi, At the minute I'm trying to do some research on my Wife's family tree and have hit a complete brick wall. Although I have a birth record for her Great Grandfather i.e

Births Mar 1915 (99%)
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McBRIDE Peter Stringfellow Prescot 8b 1556

However I can't find any marriage records for a McBride marrying a Stringfellow anywhere. At a guess they'd have married about 5 years either side of 1910.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Best wishes

John

location?

You really need to buy the Certificate to be 100% sure who you are looking for as it could turn out that they never married.

les

Have you also checked the spelling of MacBride

Unfortunately Ann I don't know where the marriage was possibly St. Helens, although as Les has pointed out they may not have married (didn't think of that.)

Hi, I've tried Mcbride and McBryde but not MacBride

It has been known John. I have a couple in my tree that never married but because he acknowledged the Children his Surname was given.

Les

I think you're right Les, I'll apply for the certificate when I get paid next... Thanks for all your help everyone

I know it's just a longshot but.....

1911 census - household transcription
Person: MCBRIDE, Peter
Address: 5 Clarence Court St Helens
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MCBRIDE, Peter Head Married M 23 1888 Coal Miner Hewers Filler Lanc St Helens VIEW
MCBRIDE, Catherine Wife Married
2 years F 23 1888 House Wife Lanc St Helens VIEW
MCBRIDE, Ellen Daughter F 2 1909 Lanc St Helens VIEW
MCBRIDE, John Son M 0 (4 WEEK) 1911 Lanc St Helens VIEW

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RG number:
RG14 Piece:
22793 Reference:
RG14PN22793 RG78PN1333 RD456 SD5 ED39 SN154

Registration District:
Prescot Sub District:
St Helens Enumeration District:
39 Parish:
St Helens

Are you absolutely certain that you have the correct birth reference?

Did Peter have any brothers or sisters??

Do you know anything about his parents?

Dea x

Cathy - the 1911 census you have posted is one I have been looking at but this is the marriage to match:

Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1910
Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference
MCBRIDE Peter BURKE Catherine Prescot Register Office or Registrar Attended Prescot R/84/121

Dea x

Not a Stringfellow unfortunately!

Name: Catherine Burke
Year of Registration: 1910
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Prescot
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 1061

Hi Dea + Cathy, I'm fairly sure I've got the right birth reference, not 100% though. Unfortunately I know nothing about Peter's parents or of any brothers and sisters.
I must admit though that the census records for the McBride family is very tempting. In fact I've just had a quick look for Catherine Burke on Free BMD/Ancestry and HER Mothers maiden name was Stringfellow!! Could that be a mistake by the registrar?

AoGG - the location's in the initial post - namely Prescot RD. John was right in his guess - the birth was rego'ed in the St Helens subdistrict of Prescot.

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1915
Surname Forename(s) Sub-District Registers At Reference
MCBRIDE Peter St Helens St Helens SH/337/70

Les suggests they weren't married.
If you click on the page # link for your hit at FreeBMD, then what you should see is another entry on that page for
Stringfellow Peter Stringfellow Prescot 8b
but that's not there. (In this case, the index is one of the 10 quarters thru 1932 that aren't completely transcribed - just 97-99% done - the completion rate for this quarter is 99% - again in initial post, so John should really look up "stringfellow" births, click on the image link, and see that this page looks like it's been done, so not in the incomplete 1%.) We don't know that the parents were wed, but that's what the registrar was told. If they weren't, then there's no hope of finding their names from a m.rego, so one would need to get their names from a b.cert. This is the only McBride-Stringfellow b.rego on FreeBMD 1911-1921.

There are a couple of other possibilities one would need Peter's b,cert for. It might show his mum was Mary McBride late Smith formerly Stringfellow, so we'ld need to look for the marr of McBride to the widow Mary Smith, and also the marr of Smith to Mary Stringfellow. Once we know his dad is, say, Donald McBride, we can try and find him on the 1911. Especially with a name like McBride, one can't discount a non-English UK marr, so maybe you'ld need to check Ireland or Scotland too.

Hi mgnv, I did try Ireland but there were no results for Stringfellows at all. However I couldn't find any sites for Scotland so Scotland is a possibility.

The Catherine Burke marriage MUST be the one ???

It is a strange coincidence the 'her' mothers maiden name was Stringfellow!

Parent's marriage:

Marriages Jun 1888

***Burke Thomas Prescot 8b 950
ROURKE Maggie Prescot 8b 950
***STRINGFELLOW Ellen Prescot 8b 950
WHITTLE James Prescot 8b 950

Perhaps when they registered the birth the registrar looked at Catherine and said 'mothers maiden name'??? - Stranger things have happened.

Dea x

I know Dea, it's too much of a coincidence! All this time I've been looking for a Stringfellow...

Thanks again one and all for your help!

Best wishes

John.

Name: Peter Mcbride
Death Registration Month/Year: 1931
Age at death (estimated): 43
Registration district: Prescot
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 857


Name: Catherine Mcbride
Death Registration Month/Year: 1924
Age at death (estimated): 37
Registration district: Prescot
Inferred County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 705

Name: John McBride
Year of Registration: 1911
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Prescot
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 728

1901 census - household transcription
Person: BURKE, Catherine
Address: 18, Clarance Street, St Helens
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BURKE, Thomas Head Married M 34 1867 Glass Beveller
St Helens Lancashire
BURKE, Ellen Wife Married F 34 1867
St Helens Lancashire
BURKE, Catherine Daughter F 13 1888
St Helens Lancashire
BURKE, Mary Daughter F 11 1890
St Helens Lancashire
BURKE, Elizabeth E Daughter F 9 1892
St Helens Lancashire
BURKE, John Son M 5 1896
St Helens Lancashire
BURKE, Winifred Daughter F 2 1899
St Helens Lancashire
BURKE, Agnes Daughter F 0 (2 MOS) 1901
St Helens Lancashire

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RG number:
RG13 Piece:
3526 Folio:
34 Page:
60

Registration District:
Prescot Sub District:
St Helens Enumeration District:
43 Ecclesiastical Parish:
Holy Trinity Parr Mount

Civil Parish:
St Helens Municipal Borough: