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Hi to everyone and thank you all very much for your time and kindness in replying to my post.
Some of you may have gathered that I am indeed a complete novice and have never undertook anything like this previously so please forgive me for my lack of knowledge of how to go about researching this on my own but my aim is to establish if I have any potential living relatives today as I know the family is rooted in the Portsmouth Hampshire area.
I have only just started on this journey by beginning to build my family tree and already I'm feeling blown away by what I an discovering, I had until recently not known who my great grandparents were or that my grandfather had a brother and several sisters, this is all news to me.
I'm sure that in the fullness of time there will be more to discover once I start to research all of the other people in my family tree more fully and individually but, once again please accept my heartfelt thanks for your time and kindness in replying to me.
Just to clarify for one member my great grandfather was indeed Thomas James Hanrahan born 1859 in Barnes Surrey, he resided in Jubilee Road Portsmouth and was a Foreman of Stores, Royal Navy Ordnance Department, he died in 1912.
Kindest regards.
Brian Hanrahan
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The start of lovely hunting on your part.
Investigate several sources:
Check out search/search all members trees as I suggested yesterday.
Www.freebmd.co.uk is a useful source which can then lead you into the GRO.
Library services in the UK usually have free access to Ancestry and sometimes Find My Past, which can save you on subs.
Local archives, sometimes found in local main libraries.
The Hampshire family history society is actually called the Hampshire Genealogy society. I think the Portsmouth section of this may have moved to Gosport,
Added: the National Archives at Kew hold some records of HM Dockyard workers.
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Deaths Jun 1972 (>99%)
BLAXHALL Norah Pretoria 12Se1900 Gosport 6b 922
Births Sep 1924 (>99%)
Blaxhall Betty Hanrahan Portsmouth 2b 852
Marriages Mar 1946 (>99%)
Blaxhall Betty Pitchforth Portsmouth 2b 1227
Pitchforth Jack Blaxhall Portsmouth 2b 1227
1939
First name(s) Betty
County Wiltshire
Last name(s) Keast (Pitchforth,Blaxham)
Country England
Birth date 15 Jul 1924
E. D. letter code WRHJ
Birth day 15
Schedule 349
Birth month 7
Schedule sub number 1
Birth year 1924
Archive reference RG101/7118G/007/37
Sex Female
Piece number 7118G
Marital status Single
Item number 7
Occupation At School
Line number 37
Address 26 Castle Road, Salisbury
Record set 1939 Register
Place Salisbury M.B.
Second surname change for this woman was recorded in 1969
Keast
Betty
15/07/1924
14/08/1983
Wiltshire Memorial Inscription Index
Trowbridge Cemetery, Wiltshire
Deaths Sep 1983 (>99%)
KEAST BETTE 15JY1924 TROWBRIDGE 23 2147
3 Pitchforth/Blaxhall births....NOT posting here as they are too recent
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Name Jack Pitchforth
Topic Other
Residence Date 18 Dec 1987( Died 10th April)
Residence Place Chatham, Kent, England
Publication Date 18 Dec 1987
Publication Place Chatham, Kent, England
Newspaper Title Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham News, etc.
Probate granted to his children....C***** Mackenzie and A***** Keast
Deaths 1987 (>99%)
PITCHFORTH JACK 21AU1924 CHATHAM 16 689
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