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can someone tell me how to use the census as i cant work it out and am not getting anywhere on my dads side of family

What dates are you looking at? The latest one we can view is the 1901

all i have is my dads birth cert and i cant find his mum and dad and dont no how to as i dont no much about his family so im getting stuck

i have his mum married date it is charles wareham to ethel childs on amj quater 1930 volume 2a page 1263 thats as far as i can get

You can't look at any census after 1901........

Perhaps you are thinking of the wrong resource........do you actually mean birth, marriage and death records? (bmd)

When was your father born?

Reg

30/12/1930 alfred william wareham on the record it is dated in january 1931

OK...........you need to buy that marriage cert.........it will tell you how old each of them was when they married, plus the names of each of their fathers.


You can't learn any more without getting the marriage cert..........

Reg

got the cedits that how i found marrage because someone gave me it but i cant do it myself
they gave me charles wareham to ethel childs or tucker 1930 volume 2a page 1263
but cant go past that

so do have to buy a birh certificate every time

As I said before, you need to buy the marriage cert..........you cannot find out anything else until you get it.

Reg

You need to order the marriage certificate from the General Records Office - GRO - You will need the volume and page numbers to do this. Online it will cost you £7 but you can order them by phone (I think it costs about £8.50 by phone).

When I order a cert on line I tend to just use one of the names - so in your case I would use Charles Wareham and not mention the wife at all.

Good luck - come back with any other questions. Don't worry you will get used to it!

You need the registration district as well I think. ...

Hold on - I'll look it up.

am i allowed to order the birthcert as never done that i tryed doing this last year got no where so trying again

OK - GRO

Follow the links to ordering a marriage certificate. (There's a lot of useful info on their site about ordering certs so it's well worth reading some of it.) If you are ordering on line make sure you tick the box to say that you know the GRO index reference - that's the volume and page number.

I looked at the marriage details again.

Charles A Wareham. 1930. June quarter. Kingston. 2a 1263. (married Ethel Childs or Tucker - so we can assume at this stage that she had been married before and it's not clear which is her maiden name and which her first married name. The cert will clarify all of that for you.)

Jill

Yes, you can order the birth certificate online from this address:-

www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates

This is the information you need:-

Alfred W. Wareham, mother's maiden name Tucker
March. qtr. 1931, volume number 2a, page number 763

Make sure you tick the box to say "yes" the full GRO reference is known.

It will cost you £7.

However it is his parent's marriage certificate that will help you most.

Kath. x

If this is your direct line - although you can "manage" with the parents marriage certificate it is good practice to order birth cert as well. This gives you a clear record of evidence when you're tracking back. It will also give you exact date of birth, an address at the time - which may differ from address(es) at marriage and father's occupation - which again may differ from that on the marriage cert. So all the details help you build that picture.

Jill