GRO put Birth and Death indexes online

Something's missing, in their files... maybe it's......
quite a few people apparently.
I know of one female who didn't appear because the Father named her something other than he told his wife, Family found out a few years ago when researching,:(, but the above is way more than that. Maybe a page went missing along the way or they can't spell 'Hampstead', one letter will put search off.

I just tried a few more styles of search. Nada.
 
The pages on Ancestry are out of order. You need to go back one ( I think) via the arrow key. They have them 238, 240, 239, 241. Looks like someone put them in the ring binder the wrong way round :rolleyes:

Well, she's on page 240 anyway ;)

Can't get her to come up on the GRO though :mad:
 
Jellylegs said:
The pages on Ancestry are out of order. You need to go back one ( I think) via the arrow key. They have them 238, 240, 239, 241. Looks like someone put them in the ring binder the wrong way round :rolleyes:

Well, she's on page 240 anyway ;)

Can't get her to come up on the GRO though :mad:
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Sorry... that's not her....I followed through on that one and it says different mother and a different place. Also on Ancestry it says pg., but then takes you to page. 240.
 
I have reported the missing index for Hampstead, Dec, 1882.

This is what they say:-

"Report a problem with a GRO Index record


Thank you for your query in regards to the online index, all reports will be investigated and where an error is found, we will update the Index to reflect the correct information. Updates to the indexes will be made on a weekly basis."

So give it a week or so and see if they update their records
 
OK, people, a bit of a tutorial needed here.

I'm quite used to searching Australian BDM records from the various states where online stuff is available and find them relatively easy to follow. The stories I hear about GRO and particularly their marriage records (man on one page woman hopefully on another, match up numbers etc before making a choice) have made me cautious about searching for my lot.

If I am searching births or deaths in (say) Bolton, Lancashire, what information do I have to put into the search engine to even come close to finding out what I would really love to know? Are they easier than marriages? Not looking for anyone to do it for me, just need the mechanics so that I can hit the records myself (and not end up chasing myself and my shadow up the wretched wall).

I'll leave marriages way out of the picture until I at least try to conquer births and deaths.

Yours in complete ignorance................. :confused:
 
First of all, what information are you hoping to find on the GRO record?
 
Chimp said:
First of all, what information are you hoping to find on the GRO record?
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The parents' names (confirming that the person is really who I'm looking for), father's occupation, and maybe (if the fairies are on my side) an address.
 
Just by searching the online records on the GRO website or FreeBMD you won't get that information. The best you can get is this:-

Using one of mine as an example

Births Dec 1922
Drayton Marion R Humphries Clun 6a 849

Where:-
Quarter: December
Year: 1922
Surname: Drayton
Forenames: Marion R
Mothers Maiden Name: Humphries
District: Clun
Vol.: 6a
Page: 849

The only way to see who the parents are is to then send for the Birth certificate.
 
The best you can hope for is finding a marriage for surnames of parents (if they are not too common) but the wife or husbands name is only linked after March 1912

Marriages Jun 1916
Drayton Arthur H C Humphries Stourbridge 6c 37
Humphries Lilian R Drayton Stourbridge 6c 37

You still wont get address or occupation though.
 
Philippa said:
If I am searching births or deaths in (say) Bolton, Lancashire, what information do I have to put into the search engine to even come close to finding out what I would really love to know?
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Actually, for Bolton in Lancashire there is always the Lancashire OPC (Online Parish Clerks) site. If they are there you get a little more information. (Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths)
Code: 
http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html
 
A death in 1843 gave this info.,
Death caused by fall from ship's rigging causing a fracture & dislocation of his back. Post Mortem.
Informant P.F.Curry -Coroner, Liverpool.
While his wife's death mentioned him as a mariner. She, being a woman of no consequence was not mentioned on this death cert. yet I feel it was that of my rellie.
I had known John to be a mariner.
 
Bonzo Dog said:
Whoopee!! Have found my g grandma's birth registration at long last.her birth was registered in Solihull, not Birmingham. Certificate ordered. :)
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The certificate has just arrived, and all questions are answered. She was born on a farm about a mile from where I grew up; remember it well. It was then situated in Yardley, which was in the Solihull Registration District until 1911.
 
I've actually found one death registration too many. Searches on FreeBMD, FMP, and presumably Ancestry, for the death of William Jewsbury in 1857 will show just one, in the June quarter, Birmingham 6d 120. The GRO adds to this the fact he was 15 when he died, plus an entry for another 15 year old William Jewsbury in the same year quarter, Birmingham 6d 121. The image shows clearly page 120. :confused:
 
:confused: So what have I done wrong?
I have followed the link and instructions, I have found a birth but it has no mother's maiden name, and the death I found had no age. It's the same as it used to be.
 
That's unfortunate :(

The missing maiden names are mentioned above in posts 22, 23 and 26 (maybe others too) - it seems to indicate illegitimacy, or possibly that they couldn't read it. If you have an alternative surname (eg from searching on page number at FreeBMD) you could see what happens if you enter that at the GRO site.

I haven't heard of a missing age at death before - maybe that was illegible too? Or maybe the death was reported by someone who hadn't a clue, and the registrar wasn't prepared to accept a guess? :confused:

Would you like to tell us who you were looking for, just in case it plays properly for someone else?
 
It was birth of Lily Welton, J quarter 1887 Nottingham vol 07B p336. I don't know her parents

I tried the death and it now seems to be working now!
 
Good about the death, but the birth surname is frustrating.

On the same page (from FreeBMD) there is a Lily Ann BISHOP, for which GRO has maiden name WINDLEY. Any possible connection there?

I'm just wondering if the parents could have been Mr Bishop and Mrs Welton (widowed?, but not married to Mr B) nee Windley. That might possibly produce the results in the GRO version. (Though the Lily/Lily Ann difference might count against that.)
 
Well I don't know!
She was down aged 4 as the daughter, I think probably grand daughter, of Charles Welton in 1891, in Nottingham. He's 60, probably widowed, and living with 6 children, 5 of whom are likely to be the parent. In 1901 she is with the siblings in Nottingham again, as the neice of Lavinia Welton aged 45. I haven't found any of them with anyone of those names
 
Have you tried the option (at the bottom of the search page) to report a problem to the GRO?
You have all the details and as birth is on the FreeBMD index
They may be able to come back to you with an answer (finger's crossed)
 
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