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I'm struggling with a couple of look ups on Ancestry, so I'm wondering if a more experienced and knowledgable 'looker upper' could please help. Birth Required John Cable Harrison 1922 +/- 1 Birthplace expected to be Durham area Father Henry Hardman Harrison b. ?1893? Birth details would also be amazing Mother Sarah E Cable b.1893 (daughter of Adam Cable & Mary Ann) Marriage cert to Henry HH would also be great - expected to be abt 1920 in Durham ? area Any help on the above would help me get some sleep. GH

Should've added that Sarah E Cable was born in South Shields, Durham.

Could this be him, you really need to know mathers maiden name- Harrison John C MMN Graham S,Shields 10a 1680 Q3 1921

Keith, Johns mothers maiden name is Cable - sorry my post looks more confusing when the line breaks are taken out. Thanks for helping though. GH

Hopefully a repost will keep line breaks ------------------------------------------------ I'm struggling with a couple of look ups on Ancestry, so I'm wondering if a more experienced and knowledgable 'looker upper' could please help. Birth Required John Cable Harrison 1922 +/- 1 Birthplace expected to be Durham area Father Henry Hardman Harrison b. ?1893? Birth details would also be amazing Mother Sarah E Cable b.1893 (daughter of Adam Cable & Mary Ann) Marriage cert to Henry HH would also be great - expected to be abt 1920 in Durham ? area Any help on the above would help me get some sleep. GH

Hi Birth June Qtr. 1892 Sarah Elizabeth Cable South Shields 10a 796 Regards Vera

Hi again Graeme, sorry MMN did not register, I have checked 1920-1924 for a John C Harrison, MMN Cable but unfortunately I cannot see him. Keith

Hi, Have found a Henry Harrison.... I obviously can't say this is the correct one without seeing the birth certificate. Sept. Qtr Birth Henry Harrison S. Shields 10a 822 Regards Vera

Thanks Vera - thats the problem that I seem to have .... Henry is too common a first name. I would have thought that Hardman would make it distinctive but not if its not listed in the Birth details. ...oh its so much harder to do English look ups, I've taken Scotlands people for granted too much G

Hi Keith - whats MMN ? Thanks for the help

Graeme, MMN = mothers maiden name, was JC the first born? I am having trouble locating the marriage as well, checked 1920 and 21, checking other years now.

I'm not sure if JC was first or indeed only child For what is worth JCH gives his address in his 1943 marriage as the same South Shields address that an 8 year old Sarah Cable (& family) is listed under in 1901 Census. So Sarah cable is unlikely to have ever moved house... so why does her marriage to Henry H Harrison not come up under any listings ?? I'm baffled

Graeme have you seen this? Sarah Ellen B Graham 1904 Oct-Nov-Dec South Shields Durham Henry Hardman Harrison 1904 Oct-Nov-Dec South Shields Durham Name: Henry Hardman Harrison Year of Registration: 1904 Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec District: South Shields County: Durham Volume: 10a Page: 1260 Henry and Sarah Ellen Graham, could this be anything to do with your lot?

I'd spotted that ... it had me all the more confused because Sarah Cable and Henry Harrison are named as parents on JCH's(scottish) Marriage certificate. Plus if Henry Hardman Harrison married a Graham, then why would Cable have been taking as a middle name. However I suppose Sarah Cable could have been Henry Hardman Harrisons second marriage........after a Graham divorce or death

Hi again Graeme, Have checked the full images for the marriage between Henry and Sarah between 1913 when she would have been 21 and 1921 and yet again no luck. In fact not many Henry H Harrisons getting married. Thinking about this, if your Henry H was born when you suspect 1893, the marriage above cannot be him, he would only have been 11 or 12. As an afterthought, is it possible that they married after Johns birth? One possibe way to srt this is to get an electoral role look-up for say 1930 when John should have been at home and see who was on it then, if Sarah was there with Henry and under what name. Update Have now checked marriage index up to and including 1930 and still no marriage I can see.

Keith Thanks for your help on this one - You are coming to the same conclusions as I have. Although not helpful to me in finding anybody, it does reassure me that I'm not going mad! I only guessed HHH's birth date, as based on a similar year as Sarah Cable (1893) - but a 1904 birth would still mean that she was 11??? They could have married after JCH's birth, but surely they wouldn't have 'unofficially changed names' on a birth certificate. If anybody else would like to have a search then please help - it might just be a left field search that solves this puzzle!!!!!!!!!

Have also checked from 1920-1924 for a John Cable being registered, no luck there either!!!!!!

Hi Graeme I found this and wondered if Sarah had been married before possibly with first husband being killed in WW1, Sarah E Cable 1914 Jan-Feb-Mar Henry South Shields Durham Charles W Henry 1914 Jan-Feb-Mar Cable South Shields Durham but I cannot find a 'Henry' marrying a 'Harrison' at present. Regards Gail.

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