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    Looking for information on Medforth family from Yorkshire England.
    Wilkin Medforth b. 1917 is last we could find.
    Anyone with information please let me know.

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    Hello Ronaldmac and welcome to Brit-Gen.

    Please can you elaborate on what exactly you are looking for; is it births; deaths; marriages; census, all four, or something else? The Wilkin Medforth you mention - is 1917 a birth year and are you wanting to trace his ancestry?

    If you are looking for living people we cannot post their details on the forum. However, if you are hoping to trace ancestors who have died we can help with them.
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    Hello Ronaldmac,

    Welcome to British-Genealogy.

    Are you looking for descendants (i.e. those born since 1917) or ancestors (those born before 1917)? If you're looking to trace descendants we can probably only give you clues on how to search because the forum does not allow publication of the names of potentially living people.

    There is no Wilkin Medforth birth registration in England or Wales between 1900 and 1920, so you will have to review that particular piece of information.

    If Wilkin is a family name there are two birth registrations - one in 1849 and another in 1889, both in Patrington registration district.
    https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/patrington.html
    If you're not familiar with the English registration system a registration district refers to an area though sometimes the name of the area is also the name of a town within that area. (As is the case with Patrington.)

    Not withstanding the fact that your Medforths might not be living in the Patrington district in the early 1900s, Medforth is quite a common name in the area with at least fifty births registered there between 1900 and 1920.

    If you'd like to give us a few more names, dates, and slightly more precise place(s) than just Yorkshire - which happens to be England's largest county - our sleuths will see what else they can find.

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    Thanks for the welcome. Yes 1917 was birth year. Basically trying to find any information on anyone who may still be alive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronaldmac View Post
    Thanks for the welcome. Yes 1917 was birth year. Basically trying to find any information on anyone who may still be alive.
    If they were born in Yorkshire in 1917 then you can choose between Robert, Alan, Alice or Doris. No Wilkin.
    In fact, they were the only Medforth birth registrations in England or Wales for 1917. (Scotland, Northern Ireland and Eire/Southern Ireland have separate registration systems)

    Strange as it may seem, most Medforth births between 1900 and 1920 seem to have been registered in Yorkshire so you should find it fairly easy to trace both ancestors and descendants.

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    There's lots of Medforth's living in Yorkshire. As Pam explained the forum doesn't allow publication of living persons names.

    Some options are to hope your post attracts a Medforth and they reply, or you could buy some pay as you go credits or a monthly subscription on Find my Past as that site has recent electoral rolls 2002 - 2014, which will give you addresses.

    Alternatively you could look for births and marriages and with the information gleaned see if anyone can be found on a social media website. https://www.freebmd.org.uk/
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    Great minds think alike because I was also going to refer you to Findmypast, and suggest that you search the 1939 Register. Admittedly the only Medforths you will find on there will be dead ones, but you will find families and in the case of the female Medforths if they married after 1939 their married names. So you can then probably trace their (non-Medforth-named) children, though that does depend to some extent on how common their married surname is.

    Not all of the Medforths living in England and Wales will be found in the recent electoral rolls. We have a system whereby you can opt out of your details being made public I think that was from 2003 onwards.
    For completely up-to-the-minute records you could also try the BT Phone Book. (Google/other search engine for the URL.) Again not everyone will be in the phone book - some will be ex-directory; some won't have a landline.

    When looking for deaths consider that some people could have died while serving during WW2 so search https://www.cwgc.org/

    The Probate Index could be useful as addresses are given prior to 1996.
    https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills
    The online GRO Index of BMDs ends in September quarter 2007 but the Probate Index is ongoing though only for names. It has three 'sections' - check you're looking in the correct section. You'll get a nil return if you search for a death in 2008 in the 1858-1996 section.

    FreeBMD for which Alma gave you the link is a work still in progress, and its records will end in 1983.
    The full GRO Index can be found on Findmypast and Ancestry. It might also be on FamilySearch though that's something you will have to investigate. FamilySearch might also yield some baptisms, marriages, and burials.
    You could also check out FreeREG - transcriptions of parish registers. Again, still very much a work in progress. (Parish registers began in 1538; civil birth registration in 1837.) https://www.freereg.org.uk/

    Findmypast also have various records for Yorkshire - you can search for Medforths for free, only paying if you want to see a record. In the top banner of their homepage click search, and from the dropdown menu select 'A-Z record sets', then type Yorkshire.

    Pam
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    Marriage Registration
    Wilkin Medforth, Jan Qtr, 1912, Reg Dist Thorne, 9c 927 - on the same page Ethel Nelson

    Birth Registration
    Archibald WILKIN Medforth, Jun Qtr 1912, Reg Dist. Doncaster, 9c 1791 - mother's maiden name Nelson (a second son Charles Herbert Medforth was registered Dec Qtr 1915)

    What is the source of your 1917 year of birth?

    Note - An Ethel Medforth, wife of W. Medforth, of 43 The Park, Woodlands, Doncaster, died Leeds Infirmary, Feb 10th 1918, age 28.
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    Archibald Wilkin MEDFORTH d. 1984 Doncaster Q3 Vol 3 Page 400, dob given as 11th May 1912

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    Quote Originally Posted by helachau View Post
    Marriage Registration
    Wilkin Medforth, Jan Qtr, 1912, Reg Dist Thorne, 9c 927 - on the same page Ethel Nelson

    Birth Registration
    Archibald WILKIN Medforth, Jun Qtr 1912, Reg Dist. Doncaster, 9c 1791 - mother's maiden name Nelson (a second son Charles Herbert Medforth was registered Dec Qtr 1915)

    What is the source of your 1917 year of birth?

    Note - An Ethel Medforth, wife of W. Medforth, of 43 The Park, Woodlands, Doncaster, died Leeds Infirmary, Feb 10th 1918, age 28.
    Don't you start with incorrect quarter names as well! I've checked this one and you mean March quarter 1912.

    And I know that you know what you're doing but it would be helpful to any newbies who read other people's queries to explain how you know Archibald's second name is Wilkin as his birth registration only gives an initial. Info is from Archibald's death registration in 1984.

    Good find by the way. I hadn't investigated any further than the four not-Wilkin births I'd found registered in 1917 as I was waiting for Ronaldmac to get back with a few more details as he's insistent that 1917 is the corect year.

    Pam
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