Genealogy Chat

Does anyone have any connection to the above PLEASE ??? Dea x

I'm not sure quite what your request is about. If you're trying to find people who recognise the names as part of their tree, then your first port of call would be the name-search, I would think - especially as ANKERS is an unusual name. If you're after a record of the marriage... I used www.ukbmd.org.uk to get to the URL for the local RO-BMD site for Lancashire http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk where I found this: Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1896 Surname Forename(s) Surname Forename(s) Church / Register Office Registers At Reference ANKERS Annie, WILSON Charles, Stowell Memorial, Salford, C26/3/463 This is a church marriage, so it should be possible to get a photocopy of the register page (for the price of a photo-copy, and maybe a fee) instead of having to pay for a formal certificate. There appears to be a microfilm for this church's registers in Manchester Central library: Marriages-1871-1897- MFPR 349 Their site, http://www.manchester.gov.uk/libraries/arls/registers/index.htm, says: <<Copying from parish registers Copying of original registers is not permitted, but visitors to the Library are welcome to make microfilm print-outs on the self-service printers in the Social Sciences Library. Manchester Archives and Local Studies can normally supply microfilm print-outs by post* – assuming the register is on microfilm - if the precise church and date of the event is specified, and as long as the date is from 1754 onwards for a marriage or 1813 onwards for a baptism/burial. See the print-out order form for further details. * We regret that this service has been temporarily suspended, until further notice, due to staffing changes. Copies of whole microfilms can also be sold, where the parish in question has given permission – contact the Principal Archivist for more details.>> there may be someone on the Records board who is planning a trip in that direction and could help you? Christine

Hello again Christine, Thanks again - I have the cert - I have searched the trees + done a quick search - I was just hoping someone might recognise the name - there are one or two Ankers on the site but I haven't received any replies to my direct mails. I thought it might be worth a try. Dea x

An understandable thought. perhaps my reply will help to keep the message in plain sight! Christine PS - have you tried googling? It's amazing what you can turn up that way - just don't forget to put ''inverted commas'' round any multi-word thing you want Google to treat as a single item, such as a name.

I just did a quick google and found this interesting looking site: http://www.stpetersfarnborough.org.uk/ It's the Hampshire Farnborough and has MI transcriptions! Nothing to do with your quest, as far as I can see, but just interesting. Christine

And this site (sub-page) came up with google, too: http://webfamily.org.uk/Ankers I've been looking for it for ages amongst my bookmarks and couldn't find it! Christine

Hi Christine, I DO appreciate your efforts - I tried the 'webfamily' site - That's a wierd one!! - You need to register and you 'cannot register at this time' - They have LOADS of Ankers on there - they are all post 1900 and they are all dead!! Don't think that's the one to follow! - BUT I will try the others you suggested tomorrow. Many thanks again for your help. Dea x

Yes, that site is very strange. I had a bit of a play on it this evening again - I'd forgotten about the no-registrations-at-this-time message! - until I encountered it again this evening. Then, after a while, it decided to time me out??? Christine

Dea, The first place I would look is The Guild of one name studies. (Just put that into Google and then select the list showing the 7000 names, and variants of surnames already registered) In this particular instance nobody is doing ANKERS, but some one name studies are highly organised, and carry vast volumes of information and contacts. You will come across other names you need more information on Regards, Ray Whincup

Thank you Ray - Will keep the site for future reference. Dea

I am sure it must be Brenda - Thank you - I will look into it further. More importantly, you reminded me to look at the cwgc site for war graves and there are another 4 pages of them - OOOhh 'so many things to do' !! Thanks again, Dea

Just looking to see how this thread is going and that reminded me to have a look at my great uncle's record. We have now achieved an upgrade from no age & no parentage, to both being recorded on the site! Christine