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by woodchal
25 Aug 2020, 14:52
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Vincent Linho missing
Replies: 9
Views: 4258

Re: Vincent Linho missing

apropos of nothing for your genealogy - a diversion maybe! It's an odd surname and had me wondering if it had anything to do with the private Lindo wing, where there have been royal births and several celebrity births which was financed by businessman and hospital board member Frank Charles Lindo, w...
by woodchal
24 Aug 2020, 09:12
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Brick Wall - Raymond Carey Webb b.1893
Replies: 11
Views: 5581

Re: Brick Wall - Raymond Carey Webb b.1893

It would be really useful if posters can refer to other forums at the outset, then information gathered here can be additive not repetitive. The rootschat has been live for a year
by woodchal
23 Aug 2020, 15:47
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Brick Wall - Raymond Carey Webb b.1893
Replies: 11
Views: 5581

Re: Brick Wall - Raymond Carey Webb b.1893

Interesting that it’s Raymond that registered the births. Try newspaper websites.

He would probably have been called up to WW1- have you looked at military records
by woodchal
23 Aug 2020, 01:12
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Brick Wall - Raymond Carey Webb b.1893
Replies: 11
Views: 5581

Re: Brick Wall - Raymond Carey Webb b.1893

Ultimately DNA may be your answer, but an odd idea.... There is clearly a circumstantial connection to the Raymond Webb b.1893 in Brinkworth, Wiltshire and married Daisy May Carey. I doubt if there are too many “Carey”s. On the 1939 register this Raymond Webb is a haulier DOB given as 6/9/1891. Raym...
by woodchal
19 Aug 2020, 17:29
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?
Replies: 18
Views: 7974

Re: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?

Question: [/b]as this query is on the WDYTYR Facebook page, does this mean yesterday's query posted on this Forum is a "prank" thread? Such as the "prank" (duplicated) threads we'd see on the WDYTYR Forum from time to time? :roll: :x I guess there has to be some reason why two p...
by woodchal
19 Aug 2020, 11:47
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?
Replies: 18
Views: 7974

Re: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?

Ok I see now - it was a link to a Facebook group and the posts within the group move on - I found the specific post you meant by searching for Breeks within the Facebook group. Interesting - there are so many forums these days its difficult to keep up with them all!! I wonder why there is so much in...
by woodchal
19 Aug 2020, 11:08
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?
Replies: 18
Views: 7974

Re: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?

Rosemary Collins, a WDYTYA site Admin asked this the other day. I put a lot of links on the page. Might be worth checking them before anyone spends a lot of time searching. https://www.facebook.com/groups/wdytyareadergroup/?ref=bookmarks What are we expecting to see there - I followed your link but...
by woodchal
19 Aug 2020, 10:54
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?
Replies: 18
Views: 7974

Re: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?

VALLMO - Did you mean Elizabeth Breeks age 51..... Haven't found birth/baptism records for Elizabeth Breeks yet. But this could be her 29 March 1883 marriage in Marylebone: Margaret Breeks, age 51, spinster George Frederick Weston, 63, widower, Clerk in Holy Orders Witnesses: D. Thomson, Agnes Jane ...
by woodchal
19 Aug 2020, 00:01
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?
Replies: 18
Views: 7974

Re: Were Margaret Breeks and Emily Birdwood related?

I don't know how this works but I think we are fairly sure that the maiden name is Wilkinson There is Agnes Jane Breeks born 1833 and Eleanor Breeks 1838 We are looking for a Margaret Sarah Breeks born before a baptism on 22 Feb 1840, but we find a GRO birth indexed as Agnes Sarah Breeks 1st Qtr 184...