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I cannot find any record of the birth of my Great Aunt Georgina M Wears. I know she existed as she is recorded in the home of her mother and father Margaret and Robert Wears in the 1881 Census as '2' , along with her sisters Lizzie A '4' and Ada '1'.

Georgina is also in the 1901 Census in the home of her grandmother Margaret Bell - her own mother Margaret having died aged 25 and leaving four little girls, Lizzie, Georgina, Ada and my grandmother Mary.

While I have the birth certificates of Lizzie, Ada and Mary I cannot find her on freembd and have tried twice to obtain a certificate from the GRO under Georgina M or Margaret Georgina for the two year period between 1878-1880.

The reason I chose the latter names is because I found a marriage of Margaret Georgina Wears to an Edward Rose ( Freembd) and also their emigration to Canada on the passenger lists. I thought this must be Georgina as I cannot find her in deaths or the later 1911 census. The GRO cannot find their marriage certificate as I wanted to check if it was her.

I can see all the other births on Freembd and all took place at East Heaton Farm, Newcastle on Tyne.

I want to locate her certificate because I am writing about the life of these little girls who lost their mother when she was only 25 and what happened to them and their lives. Can you please help.

Thank you

Name: Georgina M Wears
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 31 Mar 1901
Gender:
Age: 22
Relationship to Head of Household: Grand Daughter
Birthplace: Newcastle, Northumberland
Schedule Type: Household
Registration District: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Sub-District: Byker
Ecclesiastical Parish: St Mark
Civil Parish: Heaton
District/Parish/County: Northumberland

Name: Georgina Wears
Age (Original): 2
Gender: Female
Birth Year: 1879
Birthplace: Newcastle, Northumberland, England
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Occupation:
Address: East Heaton (Laxes Farm)
Event Place: Heaton, Northumberland, England
Disability:
Record Type: Household
GS Film number: 1342224
Affiliate Publication Number: RG11
Piece/Folio: 5070 / 144
Page Number: 21
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Robert Wears M 25 Ponteland, Northumberland, England
Wife Margaret Wears F 21 Newcastle, Northumberland, England
Daughter Lizzie A Wears F 4 Newcastle, Northumberland, England
Daughter Georgina Wears F 2 Newcastle, Northumberland, England
Daughter Ada Wears F 1 Newcastle, Northumberland, England
Son George B Wears M 0 Newcastle, Northumberland, England

forgot to say "Welcome to the boards" :-)

Hello Susan, did you order the marriage certificate using the volume and page number as shown on this record?

England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915

Name: Margaret Georgina Wears
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1901
Registration district: Newcastle upon Tyne
Inferred County: Northumberland
Volume Number: 10b <<<
Page Number: 30 <<<

Records on Page:
Name
John Ferry
Paulina Jewitt
Edward Rose
Margaret Georgina Wears

Could you let us know what was the year the immigration record to Canada?

EDIT: I have found passenger lists, and subsequent Canadian records for a Georgina M Rose but she was married to a James

I think you may have connected the wrong couple on that 1902 marriage, it looks like Margaret Georgina Wears married John Ferry:

1911 England Census

Name: Margaret Georgina Ferry
Age in 1911: 32
Estimated birth year: abt 1879
Relation to Head: Wife
Gender: Female

Birth Place: Byker, Northumberland, England
Civil Parish: Stockley
County/Island: Durham
Country: England
Street address: 21 New Row, Oakenshaw, Willington, Durham

Marital Status: Married

Registration district: Durham
Registration District Number: 551
Sub-registration district: Brandon
ED, institution, or vessel: 14
Piece: 29936

Household Members:
Name Age
John Ferry 37
Margaret Georgina Ferry 32
Roland Ferry 8
Harold Ferry 6
Margaret Ellenor Ferry 5
Maud Ferry 2

They had been married 9 years

Hello Everyone and thank you so much for your responses. I am not sure if I am responding to everyone all at once.

Firstly - no I did not put the the volume and page number but I will try that again today.

Secondly - the travel dates are 19 Nov. 1915/Ship name 'Corsican'/dep. Liverpool
There is another time she travelled with her husband Edward Rose but I appear to have mislaid it at the moment.

Thank you for your welcome Ann and message. Margaret's son George died before she did as did two other children but the four girls survived. I have been lucky enough to find Ada's granddaughter who ended up living close by here in Australia.

It is 5.06am here. I say this because I often do this work when I cannot sleep and so may not answer right away because of the time differences in the world.

Thank you very much again.

Regards
Sue

Hi Sue - before you order the marriage certificate, take a look at that 1911 census I posted!

EDIT: I've also found Edward and Pauline Rose together in the 1911 so the pairings in 1901 were:

Margaret Georgina Wears married John Ferry
Paulina Jewitt married Edward Rose

Is this yours...?

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ccavenagh&id=I597

Evening again everyone. I am so grateful! I will certainly check the census and I'm afraid it's too late for the GRO - although I will try to amend.

The roots web URL is Ada's great granddaughter and all the documents she has posted were given to her from our family collection after I discovered her online.

All very much appreciated and will let you know how things turn out.
Regards
Sue :-D

Dear Ann, Marie Celeste and Erin

I have today received the marriage certificate of my Great Aunt Georgina and I am so thrilled to have completed that final puzzle of the four girls and thank you also for the 1911 extract.

If she was Margaret Georgina Isn't this possibly her birth?


Births Jun 1878 (>99%)
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Wears Meggie Newcastle T. 10b 135

Another son...........


England & Wales, Birth Index, 1916-2005
about Cyril Ferry Name:Cyril Ferry
Mother's Maiden Surname:Wears
Date of Registration:Apr-May-Jun 1916
Registration district:Durham
Inferred County:Durham
Volume Number:10a
Page Number:745

England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005
about Roland Ferry Name:Roland Ferry
Spouse Name: Gladys Jane Johnson
Date of Registration:Jan-Feb-Mar 1931
Registration district:Durham
Inferred County:Durham
Volume Number:10a
Page Number:521



England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007
about Roland Ferry Name:Roland Ferry
Birth Date:abt 1903
Date of Registration:Dec 1945
Age at Death:42
Registration district:Durham Western
Inferred County:Durham
Volume:10a
Page:216


England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
about Roland Ferry Name:Roland Ferry
Probate Date:28 Jan 1946
Death Date:27 Oct 1945
Death Place:Durham, England
Registry:Durham, England

Of 58 New-Row Oakenshaw Willington County Durham.

To Gladys Jane Ferry widow

Effects: £231 18s 11d

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
about Maud Ferry Name:Maud Ferry
Date of Registration:Jul-Aug-Sep 1908
Registration district:Durham
Inferred County:Durham
Volume:10a
Page:461


England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
about Maud Ferry Name:Maud Ferry
Gender:Female
Baptism Date:8 Nov 1908
Baptism Place:Oakenshaw, Durham, England
Father: John Ferry
Mother: Margaret Georgina
FHL Film Number:2107289
Reference ID:
item 8 p 22



England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005
about Maud Ferry Name:Maud Ferry
Spouse Name: Alfred W Barclay
Date of Registration:Oct-Nov-Dec 1936
Registration district:Wandsworth
Inferred County:London
Volume Number:1d
Page Number:1188



England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007
about Maud Barclay Name:Maud Barclay
Birth Date:15 Jul 1908
Date of Registration:Mar 1978
Age at Death:69
Registration district:Lambeth
Inferred County:Greater London
Volume:14
Page:0385

Hello Flip and Prickly Holly

I am overwhelmed and fascinated by this information. Can you tell me how you did it?
I would never have thought of "Meggie". Can you tell me how you found this.

Similarly I don't know how Prickly Holly found the individual information on Maud. Can you please tell me what sites you used? I know freebmd.

Also since I put John and Margaret's info and children onto my Genes R tree I have found tree matches which I am sure are my relatives - awaiting their response.

If you could let me know how you found out the above info. I could learn how to do it myself. Very much appreciated. Really thankful.
regards
Sue

Hi Susan

I use Ancestry for my research.

Prickles. :-)

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
about Margaret Eleanor Ferry Name:Margaret Eleanor Ferry
Date of Registration:Jul-Aug-Sep 1905
Registration district:Hexham
Inferred County:Northumberland
Volume:10b
Page:433



England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005
about Margaret E Ferry Name:Margaret E Ferry
Spouse Surname: Ernest W Wells
Date of Registration:Jul-Aug-Sep 1939
Registration district:Wandsworth
Inferred County:Surrey
Volume Number:1d
Page Number:2377



England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007
about Margaret Eleanor Wells Name:Margaret Eleanor Wells
Birth Date:13 Aug 1905
Date of Registration:Sep 1978
Age at Death:73
Registration district:Waveney
Inferred County:Suffolk
Volume:10
Page:2611



England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007
about Ernest William Wells Name:Ernest William Wells
Birth Date:24 Aug 1907
Date of Registration:Dec 1996
Age at Death:89
Registration district:Waveney
Inferred County:Suffolk
Register Number:A12C
District and Subdistrict:7531A
Entry Number:282

Hi Prickles

Thank you for your response. Do you have to pay a subscription for this type of research and if so what category?

Thank you
Sue