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May Gertrude Burtenshaw
Registered Sept qtr 1905
West Ham 4a 185

Thank you Antony, that is very helpful.

Another question related to this please which I think you may know the answer to Antony. Would a birth certificate from the 1950s for a child born as one of twins show a time on the certificate?
Many thanks as always

Many thanks Antony, once the adoption process was made more formal I was not aware that there could be any contact at all between birth parents and the new family. If this was the case in this situation, a message saying that your child had died must have been very hard to both send and for the moth...

Adoptions now (as I understand it) are a closed book. If a child is adopted unless they want to get information on their birth parents when they are an adult, no contact is made. A birth parent is given no information about the child and I presume that this may stand even if the child subsequently d...

Cemeteries in large areas sometimes have their own website and maps online too, Nottingham for example. The Deceased Online website might have maps although I haven't found anyone I'm seeking on the site yet so can't say for sure. My experience of churchyards is less positive than meekhcs. Years of ...

Looks like Worth to me

I agree with Norfolk Nan. Thirtieth of June

Thank you both, most enlightening. Not an area I have delved into before. I will see if I can cross reference anything when I get back to it tonight

I am looking at the UK Apprentices indentured in the Merchant Navy records on Ancestry. The far right column carries the title Remarks and has the numbers 1, 2, 3 or 4 against each apprentices name. Also in the column sometimes is the phrase "Des" ships name place and date which when cross...