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Hi all thanks for looking at my post I am having a really difficult time tracing my family tree, mostly because no one talks to each other so noone knows anything but after a lot of effort I have found my great great grandfather a William Bottwood Phillips who was a labourer. I got this information from his sons marriage certificate, he was named Thomas Phillips married a Laura annie lee in Chester He was 20 when he married on the 28th Jan 1925.

Can anyone help me find information about William Ive hit a brick wall

Thanks

All I can find is a potential birth for Thomas: Q2 (AMJ) 1904, Chester, 8a 399.

Get his birth certificate to determine his mother's name and maiden surname, then find his parents marriage to determine their age, then find them in the censuses.

Hi Fergal

What was the addresses given on the certificate please

I agree this seems most likely

Births Jun 1904

Phillips Thomas Chester district Volume 8a page 399
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If you order and stipulate the father's name they will not send if its the wrong one and just charge a small administration charge

If you receive the right certificate please post ALL the details

Thanks guys I have ordered the birth certificate and will keep you informed with what it says when I get it.

bex

Thanks Fergal but what was the addresses of Thomas & Laura on the marriage certificate
-given those we might be able to chase back on the censuses

Sorry Alec forgot about that. On their marriage certificate they were already both living together in No 12 Belgrave street in Chester

Be brilliant if you can find something for me

thanks

Thanks Fergal

Both there so may have been a convenient boarding house for the marriage but with luck coud be a relative. Is there any other scrap of information -biirthdates/places, occupations - anything no matter how unimportant it may seem

Hi alec i will tell u all that it says on marriage certificate. They married on 28th Jan 1925, Thomas was 20 and a colliers electrician, his father william was a labourer.
Laura ann lee was 21 when married and her father thomas lee was a toolman. . They were married in the parish of St John the Baptist in Chester


Their witnesses were Thomas Lee, Elizabeth Phillips, William Jones and Elizabeth ? (I cant read it properly - it looks like Astley but not sure)

Thanks, the witnesses could be very useful

brilliant i look forward to hearing from u

hope your lucky

No luck in 1901 Fergal

Turned a lot of image pages to find it Guess we'll have to wait for the birth certificate -I have some other 'maybes' regarding witnesses and will hold on to those until we know what's on the birth certificate especially birth address

1901
12 Belgrave Street St John, Chester

Charles Beer Head 38 born Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales Tailor
Maud F Beer Wife 38 born Ireland
William J Beer Son 13 born Chester, Cheshire Errand Boy - Port
Beatrice M Beer Daughter 11 born Chester, Cheshire

Hi Alec i received the birth certificates today and hope you can help me further. It says Thomas Phillips was born to William Bottwood Phillips and Elizabeth Phillips (formerly Hughes) Thomas was born on the 28/0.3/1904 On Pulford Road in Chester.

Very confused with Laura Annie Lee though because on the marriage certificate it says her father iis Thomas Lee but on the birth it says Arthur Lee who had married Agnes Lee (formerly Dodd). Laura was born 10/12/1901 in Great Boughton Road

Very confused ay help greatfully received. Thanks

Hi Fergal

Here's a start -I'm now searching for them in the censuses and will try the same for John after

Marriages Dec 1886

HUGHES Elizabeth Chester 8a 637
PHILLIPS William Chester 8a 637
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Marriages Mar 1899

Dodd Agnes Chester 8a 578
Lee Arthur Chester 8a 578
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Perhaps Laura Annie Lee's father's full name was Arthur Thomas or Thomas Arthur and he's known by both to different people as was my father

Hi Fergal are you still looking for information on this?

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