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Oh Margaret, I'm so pleased for you - just re-read this thread as it dates back a while, but when I stated reading I remembered what you have been through.

It's great news, finding a sister after all this is so exciting, hope it goes well for you both.

good luck
Flip

Hoping that it is all that you are wishing for and that you both have a lovely future relationship. :-D :-)

What wonderful news.

Ozi

Great news with help from Brenda moody blue, I have made contact with my sister Patricia. We had a lovely phone conversation and will be meeting up soon

Thanku very much I will look into this x

Could this be Catherines death?


England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2006 about Katherine Perry
Name: Katherine Perry
Birth Date: 14 Apr 1914
Date of Registration: Nov 2001
Age at Death: 87
Registration district: Colchester
Inferred County: Essex
Register Number: A85C
District and Subdistrict: 4691A
Entry number: 7


this would appear to be her birth in the correct year & qtr as per death above although the name is spelled with a "C" not "K"

Births Apr-May-Jun 1914
VEST Catherine Walker Durham 10a 959

Ime still searching

Hi Margaret Rose,

It's good you've got the file, but if we can find your mothers death (and possible te-marriage) you need to invest in her birth certificate.

Aren't Herts social services willing to do a search on your siblings for you? Most SS will, and at least place a letter on file or check if the siblings have already done so.

i have now recieved a file from herts archives dating back from my birth, it was kingsmead childrens home that myself and my siblings were placed and reading through it seems that we had a lucky escape from neglect. but would still desperatley like to find my siblings.

seemed to have tried all avenues, keephitting a brick wall , why is it so hard to find youre brothers and sisters!

It may be worth investing in her birth certificate - the most likely being this one:

Births Jun 1914 (>99%)
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VEST Catherine Walker Durham 10a 959

This should confirm actual dob for a search against death records (with just christian name) - assuming she died before 2007, and the person registering death knew her dob.

At least a list of names could give something to check against marriages. Also, if the correct death can be identified the person registering death may prove to be a lead.

thankyou its worth a try but ime not sure if she remarried at all x

Just a thought. Do we know when Catherine Perry died. I can see two possibles one Enfield and one Chelmsford. If she died in a reitrement/nursing home, there may be information available from staff who perhaps knew her history.

Vera

It is difficult to know which children could be her siblings after the 1911 census as there was another Vest/Walker marriage in the area in 1908. But, of those identified from the census I think these are their marriages:

Bertha married Ernest Foster Q4/1923 - 3 children
Mary Ann married George B Richardson Q3/1925 - 7 children
Jennie married Frederick P Mason Q4/1927 - 3 children
Robert married Ada Pickering Q4/1935 - 2 children

You should be able to find the children's details from freebmd, and some of them are still alive and on 192.com, but I can't see any of them on search trees on here or Ancestry.

Not sure if any of this will help, but who knows

Thankyou once again i have alot of info to look into, it makes me wonder if catherines parents died whillst she was young maybe she was in a childrens home also, perhaps thats why she couldnt be a mum to me and my siblings

Just a little snippet I found during my travels

http://www.stortfordhistory.co.uk/guide10/union_workhouse.html

In 1894, Rye Street Cottage Hospital (See Guide 7) was under construction; the same year a medical inquisition was held on the workhouse. With no hospital nearer than Cambridge or London to tend the working class sick, it was concluded the workhouse should also become the local Infirmary and be renamed Haymeads. By that time there were 112 beds for men and women needing medical care as well as a separate fever ward with bedding of flock, feathers and straw according to the case. Water and air mattresses were also available.

*In February 1929 the Herts & Essex Observer reported the visit to the town of 90 unemployed miners from Newcastle-on-Tyne, on their way to a rally in Trafalgar Square. They spent one night at the Workhouse as 'casuals', then continued on the next day to Ware.



Vera

As your Mum´s address at the time of the marriage was a hospital, was she perhaps a nurse living in the nurses home?
May be worth looking into.

It looks like both her parents died when she was still very young, I wonder who brought her up:

Deaths Sep 1915 (>99%)
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Vest Thomas 37 Lanchester 10a 328

Deaths Jun 1925 (>99%)
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Vest Elizabeth 41 Durham 10a 469

Thankyou everyone for youre help and yes sidneys father was albert ernest perry and the addres at the time of marriage was millend, takeley

Hi Mary, I've looked back through my notes and Sidneys parents were Albert E Perry (c1876) and Minnie L Foxwell (1874). Margaret Rose has had no luck with her fathers siblings so I wondered if she may have more luck with her mothers family.

Think the only way she may get the answers she is looking for will be from cousins - and family gossip.