Genealogy Chat

Sheila L Coburn was born on the night the Family Home in St Helens Road, South End on sea was Bombed 11/12/1941
Volume 4a Page 1179
Registered Jan Feb March Quartern Born
She was Adopted

Unfortunately as her name will have been changed it limits help that can be given here

Read the info at https://www.gov.uk/adoption-records/the-adoption-contact-register

You can also add a 'postem' on her birth reg at freebmd.org.uk

Have you done anything yourself to try to find info?

Yes the above info is all I have her Father was Robert Coburn, Mother Violet Clark

Yes the above info is all I have her Father was Robert Coburn, Mother Violet Clark

You refer to her as 'aunt'. Your aunt?

No notation against Sheila's birth registration on freebmd indicating adoption

Parents' marriage

Marriages Dec 1939 (>99%)
Clark Annie E V Coburn Southend 4a 3451
Coburn Robert Clark Southend 4a 3451

Annie (E V) Clark's life in 1939
289 London Road, Southend-On-Sea C.B., Essex, England

Clark household
(11 people)
First name(s) Last name(s) Birth year DOB Sex Occupation Marital status Schedule Schedule Sub Number
James H Clark 1891 29 Sep 1891 Male Horse Keeper Married 256 1
May V Clark 1893 26 Mar 1893 Female Unpaid Domestic Work Married 256 2
William T Clark 1924 04 Aug 1924 Male Shop Boy Single 256 3
John E A Clark 1928 29 Apr 1928 Male At School Single 256 4
The record for this person is officially closed. Can I get around this?

Annie (E V) Clark 1915 18 May 1915 Female Cinema Ushirette Single 256 6

Well if it's the same Annie she was born in Dublin and died in 1987 under her maiden name:

Death:
First name(s) ANNIE ELIZABETH V
Last name CLARK
Gender Female
Birth 18 May 1915
Death quarter 2
Death year 1987
District Hounslow
Register number 687
County Middlesex
Volume 13 Page 1097

Erika we are looking for my Husbands Aunt, My mother in law's adopted sister.

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Erika we are looking for my Husbands Aunt, My mother in law's adopted sister.

:)

Thank you again

Well, follow the advice you were given by Rambling on July 28th

Austin Q that would make sense that the 1939 Annie was born in Ireland, I hadn't found her birth or a marriage for parents in England or Wales.