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The medal index rolls only list one Gerald Price without a middle name. He was in the machine gun corps service number 96314. The service records (and keep in mind that some 60% of WWI service records were destroyed in WWII bombing) for this chap did survive and as Suzanne said do show a middle...

Have you tried looking for him on the National Burial Index? It is available on CD and FindMyPast also have it as one of their resources.

if you are referring to 1761 - 1924 they appear to be GRO Regimental Birth Indices (1761 to 1924) Doug

Re: Help please-am I going mad Re Elizabeth Perks(Crow) then (Birch) born about 1876 If you purchase the marriage certificate you should get the full name and marital status (e.g. widow, widower) of each party.

A search on Ancestry for a death of Lydia Bull in 1885 returned two hits. One was age 64 and the other 29. Obviously neither could be your lass.

Have you tried finding them on another census? Hopefully another census would contain more information - especially one close to when they were born.

Do you know about the FreeBMD site? In the March Quarter 1902 it records the following two people in the marriage index: Ball Louisa Aston 6d 429 Heath Alfred Aston 6d 429 Using this information you can purchase the marriage certificate from the GRO. The certificate will give you the names...

I suspect the 3,500 NZ military personnel who served in Vietnam would be surprised to hear that. Doug

I have done a search for a Mavis Dobson born 1917 +/- 10 years. There is this possibility but it is only a guess. Name: Mavis B Dobson Mother's Maiden Surname: Culling Date of Registration: Mar Qtr 1926 Registration district: Newport M Registration county: Wales Volume Number: 11a Page...

And this appears to be his birth: Name: Cresswell H J Wood Mother's Maiden Surname: Barraclough Date of Registration: Jun Qtr 1916 Registration district: Foleshill Registration county: Warwickshire Volume Number: 6d Page Number: 1282 Doug

I would suggest that you purchase the marriage certificate. That will give you the name of her father and his occupation and hopefully her age. That may assist you to find her birth. It should also give you her second name and this may enable you to find her death. This appears to be the...

Marriages March Qtr 1947. Registration district: Nuneaton, Registration county (inferred): Warwickshire Volume Number: 9c, Page Number: 1577 Name: Cresswell H J Wood Spouse Surname: Dobson Name: Mavis B Dobson Spouse Surname: Wood Doug

For similar images from the U.K. in the same time frame the BFI has the Mitchell & Kenyon films available on DVD.

Do you have the exact date of birth for her? Did she have a middle name or names? Doug

There is this one: Deaths February 1999, Hilda May Bailey, Age 98, Registration district: Birmingham, Inferred County: Warwickshire Register number: D12B District and Subdistrict: 0611D Entry number: 154 Doug

Are you talking about a tree on the internet or a program on your computer? if the latter I use The Master Genealogist and love it. Having said that it has lots of features I don't use. It is really a matter of personal preference as to what you use. This site has reviews of their so called...

Re: Sarah Jane Coulthard Hi Jean, A thing to remember when ordering certificates is that the more fields that you put in for the GRO to match the higher the chance of rejection. Remember that while the father for example may have been named John Albert Smith by his parents he may have...

Re: Sarah Jane Coulthard Hi Jean, If you change the spelling from what is recorded in the indexes the GRO will usually reject the request as it does not match what they have. If you also included the parents names it may be that they did not match and it is the wrong person. Unfortunately...

Re: Sarah Jane Coulthard Looks like it is all coming together then. :)

Re: Sarah Jane Coulthard Thanks for the clarification. I must admit to not being the best at reading old handwriting. :) Doug