Genealogy Forum UK

Hi All, I've recently found through family search that an ancestor was a royal engineer in world war one, however to gain access to the actual record I would have to pay (ancestry also have this). It seems pointless for me to pay for a month's fee since this is really the only information left of my...

Mary Ann Hotchkiss was born 1859 in Dudley - trying to find out parents name and where they lived. Especially where her parents are from originally so thought the census was best way to find these out. Might come up as Ann Hotchkiss, as many know they did use middle names since they named the childr...

Yes, in 1901 Benjamin snr was in boer war, you can google him. He was an Oldbury volunteer! This was why Maud moved in with her sister Ada, and their first born Gladys because we assume she didn't want to be on her own with her first child since Benjamin was in the war, Yes, the correct Benjamin we ...

Benjamin was born around 1902/03 in Oldbury to Maud and Benjamin - We only recently found him on the 1910 census so did not know he existed. He would be fathers uncle, but since my father lost his father young we never knew of Benjamin. He had an elder sister; Gladys, and younger sister Evelyn who d...