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OK thanks everyone, I shall take your advice!

Derek

Hi, that's very helpful. Much of the data such as place, date, name of spouse is in the public domain. I have never used FHL records before. Is it likely that more information e.g. in this case, name of bride's father is going to be on the film?

I have tracked a relative to Cork, Ireland and from Ancestry have discovered year (in this case of marriage), volume, page and FHL film no. I have never crossed swords with Irish records before and wonder how I now access this information (specifically I need to see bride's father's name). Everythin...

Thanks a lot for that information, I will see what that turns up. Some of what I want to see is in the Chancery Division and is likely to be civil as opposed to criminal and I guess that's likely to be elsewhere. Does anybody have an idea where that might be?

Thanks again.

Derek

I wonder if anyone has attempted to trace court records from the late 19th century. There are a couple listed in the London papers as due to be heard on a given day which may have a bearing on my family research and I wondered whether it was possible to trace the records, and if so how I should go a...

Thanks, I hadn't noticed there was one.

My great great grandmother was born in India during the period of the Raj. I notice the most likely entry for her and many others seems to be repeated sometimes at least twice. Her entries read; Place Year Regt. Vol. Page Cavanagh, Mary A Trichinopoly 1845 105th 31 69 Cavanagh, Mary A Trichinopoly 1...

Sorry, I omitted to say that I have been unable to trace any of these these people in the 1871 census but they do appear in the 1861 census in Buckingham Place, Marylebone (which no longer exists). It is quite possible that Henry Hayes was dead by 1871.

Jane's birth is recorded. Henry William Hayes was born in Ireland and seems to have set up home with Annie Nettleton in the Great Portland Street area some time in the 1850s. There is however no record of any marriage between them and as Annie was in her 90s when she died in 1920, her birth (recorde...

Yes that's her. The name of her brother-in-law was actually Salvatorre CIZZIO. He was Italian Swiss and disappears from the record shortly afterwards there being no record of his death (possibly due to the complete inability on the part of officialdom to spell his name correctly - the marriage certi...

I started researching my ancestors about 20 years ago and got some way down the road, only to hit a number of brick walls, the most irritating of which was my great grandmother - Lillie Hayes. She seems to have had an aversion to any kind of officialdom and first seems to have troubled the registrar...