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Hi all! It's been along time since I've been on here, but I have a brickwall that has been driving me nuts! I am hoping someone here may be able to help. I know how great the memebers on here are! (Northern Lass and Pete!)
My grandmother had three older siblings, Mary Elizabeth Kearney, born in 1899, Richard Stephenson, born in 1901 and then another sister, born sometime after Richard but before 1907 when my grandmother was born. This sister dies before the 1911 census, because her father William says he had 4 children, but 1 has died. I am trying to find this sister. All of this happened in Sunderland. I have no name for her, just a picture of the three, Mary, Richard, and the mysterious sister together. I think the photo was taken around 1905. I have looked all over the BMD, trying to find who matches, using both Carney and Kearney, looking for family names, and I am just stummped.
Even if no one is able to help, at least I got to vent about it! Thanks for letting me do that!

have a look on this site as sunderland was a part of co durham

http://nd.durham.gov.uk/gro/newgro.nsf/ ... 531052009$

take your pick

birth sunderland register

KEARNEY Annie 1905 Select
KEARNEY Elizabeth 1902 Select
KEARNEY John 1905 Select
KEARNEY John 1910 Select
KEARNEY Mary 1904 Select
KEARNEY Philip 1906 Select
KEARNEY Richard 1901 Select
KEARNEY Thomas 1908 Select
KEARNEY Thomas 1909 Select
KEARNEY William 1904 Select
KEARNEY Winifred 1907


here the link

http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/pages/registrars/

you could say you only want the cert if parents are so and so ?


deaths free bmd

Deaths Sep 1900
Kearney Kate 0 Sunderland 10a 319


Deaths Dec 1900
Kearney Isabella 1 Sunderland 10a 432


Deaths Dec 1901
Kearney Margaret 1 Sunderland 10a 396


Deaths Jun 1904
KEARNEY William 0 Sunderland 10a 334


Deaths Dec 1905
KEARNEY Mary Jane 1 Sunderland 10a 361


Deaths Sep 1907
KEARNEY Philip 0 Sunderland 10a 327

Thanks Peterd!
First, I will take out all of the boys. Then, take out Mary Jane, silly to have two daughters named Mary, but I know it has been done. Could be Elizabeth, I will have to look into that one. Not Kate, Isabella, or Margaret, their birth dates clash with Mary (25 Dec, 1899) and Richard's (18 Oct, 1901). Plus they died too early. The girl is still alive about 1905 to possibly 1911. Winifred is my grandmother!
Would have been nice if Grandma had not said she was an only child.........
I am off to look at that site you gave me peterd. Thanks for the help. Maybe a fresh set of eyes can set me on the right path!

Hi Lady jane welcome back missed ya!

Hi Coz! Nice to be back!
Well, I checked the names peterd found in the 1911 census, and they are alive so I can now count them out. One name has intrigued me and that is Martha Hannah Kearney, born Sept. quarter 1903. She is not in the 1911 census, not in the Sunderland marriage registers, or in the BMD for a death that I can find so far. She could have moved from the area. But I keep looking at her. Her mother Sarah had a sister named Martha and Sarah's mother was named Hannah. I will have to look more into her. Enough hair pulling over this for the moment, I have to go pull my hair at work now. Have a lovely reast of your day!

Is this still a Brick Wall?
Or have you solved it?

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