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Hi peeps ok so im a plat member but havent a clue im trying to find births n names of grandparents n so on my dads name is ken francis mcbride born liverpool 1944 mothers maid name is gaskell gewndoline gaskell born 1923 it says her mothers maid name was service but i cant find anything on fathers names or how to figure out my great grandparents names n so on im also trying to find all the real children of ken mcbride but dont know how to ????? can anyone help xxx :-(

Your best site - if you aren't already using it - is Freebmd for births, marriages and deaths 1837-1950ish:

www.freebmd.org.uk

Jan

To start you off, I put in the two surnames and came up with just one result (lucky you, the names are unusual!):

Marriages Sep 1921
Gaskell Frederick Service W.Derby 8b 1135
Service Letitia Gaskell W.derby 8b 1135

GR is not a good place to try to do ANY research.................so many much better options

On freebmd you just put in the surnames and hey presto !


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Marriages Sep 1921
Gaskell Frederick - Service - W.Derby 8b 1135
Service Letitia -Gaskell - W.derby 8b 1135


Buy the certificate which will give you their ages and father's names

Births Mar 1923 (>99%)
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Gaskell Gwendoline Service Liverpool 8b 227


I wouldn't normally do this, as I firmly believe it's better for you to find info yourself...................

But....this is from freebmd (as advised by Jan)

Marriages Sep 1921 (>99%)
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Gaskell Frederick Service W.Derby 8b 1135
Service Letitia Gaskell W.derby 8b 1135

It's the best, and easiest, way to get BMD info......and it's FREE.

When your Platinum membership expires, take a tip.................renew on GR as a BASIC member, and use other sites for research

Kerry, a suggestion if you don't mind! Try to space your query and use a bit more in the way of full stops, as it can be hard to decipher what you are asking.
Try Freebmd as suggested. You will also find you need to order a certificate from time-to-time to confirm findings or take research back further. Once you get back to 1911 you can look at census reports. If you do not have a sub to Ancestry or Findmypast just ask on here and we can look things up for you.
jan

Another FREE site you really should put in your favourites is.................

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

From Lancsbmd..........

Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1921
Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference
GASKELL Frederick SERVICE Letitia West Derby, Register Office or Registrar Attended Liverpool REG_WD/385/141


So ............. they married at the Register Office, or they were Catholics.........or non-Conformist

When you refer to the 'real' children of Ken Mcbride........I'm guessing that you mean legitimate?

First step.........find out if he married.............. if he didn't, there can't be any

Looks like there is a possible marriage 1966 - do you already know about this?
Jan

Thank you, all of you so much. And thanks for all the other sites you have named , I will try them all xx I appriciate all you have done xx

1966 ?? im not sure ... Iv been told i have 17 brothers and sisters out there , Fathered by my dad Kenneth McBride. I have been looking for 4 years now but i cant seem to work out what i am doing.

Unless he was married to the mother(s) you are unlikely to find their births

My dad was a bit of a player lol ... i know he was married a few times and i have found a few people on here with my brothers n sisters names on their trees. BUT i cant get any info ....
Its so fustrating .
Call me thick i just dont know what im doing on this thing lol

Kerry, have you tried contacting the people with those names in their trees? Doesn't always work as a lot of people no longer use the site, but worth a try.

yes Potty i have been trying to contact them since 2009 and yet still no responce ... But on a good note i know that my half sister Katrina Abbott was Mcbride has also been looking for me and our other brothers n sisters on a site called missing you but that was in 2006.
So im now going frantic lol xx

Kerry have you tried contacting Katrina on this site ?

she is a member with herself in her tree

people only receive notices of messages if they still have the same email address as is in their account here, or if they come to the site to find them

you can tell whether someone has read your messages by looking in your 'sent messages' ... if the envelope is still purple it hasn't been read

she and her husband are on the electoral roll together but unfortunately only up to 2007 and I do not see a current telephone listing at BT on line.

yes chrissiex hun i mailed her on here last night. I have also joined that missing you site and left a message there in a couple of places for her and i have hounded a few with her name on facebook to i dont know what else i can do could u inbox me the address u have for the 2007 electoral roll hun maybe i can work from that some how xx

all I can see with a free search is ... hold on, now i'm seeing her listed in 2011 -- same place as her birth, but I can only see the town county and partial post code.

the listing for that surname with initial K at BT on line in that location is not her unfortunately

it could be worth buying credits at www.192.com to find the full info if no one here is able to access it