Graham
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
In the past I’ve had great help from forum members in finding my past family, especially when I went on a quest to find my long lost half brothers. https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=10357&highlight=long+lost+half+brothers
Now from the Birmingham Council Register Office I’ve bought quite a few birth certificates and marriage licences. But even with the help of John Yates I can’t get hold of my granddad’s John Sheldon, birth certificate. It is possible that he was born outside of
Birmingham and John Yates advises me to use UK Document Services. All well and good but they need a birth date and all I have to go on is his 25 November, 1905, marriage licence that states that he was then 23 years old making his birth year 1882, and his father was a Joseph Sheldon. Some time ago forum members posted that his father, Joseph Sheldon, was born in 1841 and that the wife of Joseph was a Jane, no maiden name, born 1845. But I’m not sure of his parent’s names John Yates can’t find a John Sheldon with these parent’s names.
My granddad, John Sheldon, died in WW I and no one in the family knows anything about him and I would also like to get hold of a copy of his death certificate but I think I need to know his birth date and place before I can go on with this request.
Can anyone help me please? Thanks, Graham.
Now from the Birmingham Council Register Office I’ve bought quite a few birth certificates and marriage licences. But even with the help of John Yates I can’t get hold of my granddad’s John Sheldon, birth certificate. It is possible that he was born outside of
Birmingham and John Yates advises me to use UK Document Services. All well and good but they need a birth date and all I have to go on is his 25 November, 1905, marriage licence that states that he was then 23 years old making his birth year 1882, and his father was a Joseph Sheldon. Some time ago forum members posted that his father, Joseph Sheldon, was born in 1841 and that the wife of Joseph was a Jane, no maiden name, born 1845. But I’m not sure of his parent’s names John Yates can’t find a John Sheldon with these parent’s names.
My granddad, John Sheldon, died in WW I and no one in the family knows anything about him and I would also like to get hold of a copy of his death certificate but I think I need to know his birth date and place before I can go on with this request.
Can anyone help me please? Thanks, Graham.