Thread: greenwood family

HI every one I am tryeing to find out about william greenwood born in bradford 1900 his father is fredrick but his mothers name as been hard to find as there is no birth certificate . if any one can help paulettex

Hi Paulette



your elusive William!?!?



I know you said he was born Jan 1900....was this a confirmed DoB?? I know I couldnt find a ref in BMD (although it's not 100%) and I couldnt find him on 1901



Do you know when he died? OR if he had been baptised the Parish Registers would be ideal to search...as by that time I'm sur they listed both parents



Lol you will find him eventually...these things are just sent to test us!



Loz

hi loz yes its a tricky one ,i have tryed parish register and births aithough he was found in marriages, 1922 he married my gran called ellen surridge at st josephs church in bradford. i suppose as you said his date of birth could be wrong.but we have always celebrated his birth as 14 jan 1900 he always said he was born the same year as the queen mother.also he told me that both his parents died when they were 38yrs old. but i havent come across this yet, fathers name is frederick on marriage lines but no mothers name on that.thanks paulettex

Hi Paulette



Do you know when William died? as if this was after 1969 then his date of birth will be listed



My Nan always celebrated her birthday on 6th March.....as she was approaching 60...and bus pass time..she sent for her birth certificate and she was born.....FIFTH March!!!!



Another more recent one...I worked with a guy and as his b'day was approaching we asked how old he was ...he said 37 next. A few days later we were talking about years of birth...he mentioned his and we all burst out laughing he was actually only 36 next b'day!!



Apparently his wife had always told him she was a year older than him.....so he believed what he was told!





Loz

Hi Paulette



lol I just been looking over the other posts and realised he died in 1985. Well the indexes do give his DoB as 14 Jan 1900...but if everyone believed that was true..thats whats recorded!



ANyways I've had another look and found this one:



Mar Qtr 1904 Bradford Vol 9b Page 125

William Greenwood



You could contact SOuthport and ask if parents are Fred and Margaret, the ones from 1901 Census !?!?!?





Good Luck



Loz

Hi

Just found this, so he was about in 1901 we just gotta find him lol



William Greenwood 14 Jan 1900 Sep 1985 85 Halifax Yorkshire

Just found this birth reference



Births from period Jan-Feb-Mar 1900



William Todmorden vol 9a page 24? looks like 0

I checked for Greenwoods who died age 38 in Bradford up to 1920 and the only one which looked at all likely was -

Death Ellen Greenwood 1/1919 Bradford 9b 378 age 38

Gillian

hi gillian thank's for that i will check this out ,sounds as though we could have another ellen in the family Paulette x