Forum: Brickwalls

Please can you help me trace Joan Mary Butler (deceased). I am very new to genealogy and seem to have hit a brick wall whilst creating our family tree. We believe she was born between 1921 and 1924. In 1942 we know she lived at 31 Spencer Road, St Marks, Cheltenham and was working as a...

I have run into a brickwall on my GGGG Grandfather Peter Bray. I have He was born in England in 1718 and came to United States in early 1740 or late 1730 with possibly two brothers. He married Martha Scott in 1742 in Maryland or Virginia. He was described as a short,redheaded,Englishman. He was...

Hello all. I'm a new 'un so any help appreciated. I have a James and Mary Dowd in the 1851 U.K census but I am trying to find out where they were from in Ireland.They were spelt as DOUD on the census.I know they had a child born in Derby but how would I find out the info I am after? Dowd.

Hi all. I'm going round in circles and getting nowhere fast. John Brown. Born about 1807. Farlow. Shropshire. Married to Elizabeth (?). Born about 1802. Hopton Wafers. Shropshire. By 1851 they have a family of at least 4 strapping lads. James. b 1834 John. b 1837 Samuel. b 1839 Edward....

I have been trying to find the birth record of the above for the last couple of years without success. She was my grandmother but there was always something mysterious about her background, hence the interest. She was born 15 July 1891 in Manchester and her father (according to her marriage...

Sarah Jane Wells b 1891 marries Algernon Helmer and he dies 1918 in WW1. She remarries in 1921 to Thomas Schollar and has a daughter 1928. I started searching the death indexes from 1928 onwards to 1952 and found Sarah J. Schollar 1951 age 90 vol 4a p 123 3Q Bedford. Now why she should be...

I am throwing to you guys a brickwall of mine for an ancesttor who seems to have been both a swimmer and an alien (ie appeared apparently by UFO, possibly swam to australia, fathered children then dissappeared again apparently on the same UFO he arrived on). His name was Jack Wallace Macpherson...

Hi everyone! I have been trying to find some info on hugh mcinteer b.1852-54. 1881 census shows him as living in Dawdon,durham. 1891 census, hugh 37 police constable 1901 census hugh 47 police sargeant.lived at 75 beaconsfield street,norton.I do know he was born in ireland but after much searching...

First of all thank you for such a nice warm welcome. I cannot believe you are actually offering to help me so readily. I guess I have got used to peoples eyes glazing over and that sort of sideways shuffle they do as they try to edge way from me when I get going about it LOL. Right. I am looking...

Ok... this will be confusing, but I'll do my best to explain... My Grandfather Herbert John Prothero (b. 1888, Llanbedr, Wales) was frequently known by the name David - even on official documentation. As an example, his eldest son Leonard (b. 1922) has 'Herbert' listed as the father on his...

How can I research where my McDonough family line came through I believe it was Galway, Ireland, Cork County? The only substantial research is that a William & Margaret McDonough on the 1840 - 1850 census for Washington DC. and in the 1820 Census there is a John William McDonough listed as the...

Not so much a brick wall as a house – and the hospital has refused to issue me with any more bandages for my battered head – so perhaps someone may have a bright idea about my missing Mitchell from Dorset. This is a bit long but I wanted to set out what I have got to save anyone looking for...

My Great Great Grandmother was Ann Archer, after 20 years of research all I know is that she was Living in Nantwich Cheshire in 1821 when she married my Great Great Grandfather James Eachus. On the 1841 census she stated that she was not born in Cheshire, her given age was 56. Therefore she was...

Matthew Talbot b September 29 1699 UK d 1758 VA USA, said to have travelled to the US to visit Calvert cousins and went into shipping business with Nicholas Hale in Maryland. Looking for that elusive connection to parents in England among the Shrewsbury Talbots (a cousin has an heirloom salt cellar...

Hi B-G Forum members I have hit a brickwall in trying to locate my gardmothers parents and their ancestors. I know my grandmother was Ada Phillips who was aged 22 (born abt. 1891 if correct) according to her marriage certificate when she married George Goodey in 1914. I know her sister...

Here's hoping someone can help! William AIKIN/ATKIN appears on the 1881 census in CRONDALL (Hants) as a VISITOR in the house of JOHN SNELL (shoemaker) and his wife FRANCES CHARLOTTE (nee BROWN). RG11; Piece: 1250; Folio: 64; Page: 35. John is from HENNOCK (Devon) but when he marries Frances...

hi, if anyone has access to the 1851 census for leicestershire may i please request a look up. name william hallam born abt 1821 whitwick wife elizabeth hallam born abt 1818 staffordshire william occupation was carpenter. children reginald hallam born abt 1845 and agnes born 1850, i do have them...

Marriage of George Radermacher and Mary Anne Whitehead.Have all other info on kids and whatever as was given this info on here previous.Could not find the marriage details though.George was born in Hamburg in 1833 whilst Mary Anne was born in 1842 in Newcastle Under Lyme.She apparently died in Dec...

I have been searching for months for my nan`s birth record but unable to find it- Annie Elizabeth Clarke - her death cert states she was born in Dover,Kent but my father mantain`s that she was born in the Bow Bells area (thats what she told him)! Birth Sept 1890?- Death oct 1974 Father name...

Hi Forum members I am searching for the parents of my Grandmother Ada Phillips. Her father was Henry (or possibly Harry) Phillips. I don't know her mother's name but I believe her grandparents were from Swansea in Wales. Ada who was born in 1891 I believe and had 4 sisters; Lillian Edith,...