looking for parkinson in manchester.
coppice
I am trying to trace my fathers family, Norman Parkinson, he was born in 1906 and his father is Thomas, mother Annie. However I have hit a snag in that they do not apperar to be married. I obtained my fathers birth certificate which gives mother as either Henshaw or Openshaw. The writing is difficult to decipher. Where can I go from here? I started by tracing my partners family and have done much better with that but cannot find my own. There is no-one still alive to consult.
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SilverVixen on 2012-04-04 11:41:45Thomas Parkinson married Mary Openshaw 1897 Bury, Lancashire, Q1 8c 706.
SilverVixen on 2012-04-04 11:48:10Quite strange because in the 1911 census she is Annie and she and Thomas are living in Openshaw which is where apparently they were both born. Norman has a brother and sister Mary 1903 born Bolton and George 1904 Openshaw
coppice on 2012-04-04 14:14:59I did wonder if it is a name error, she was known as Annie by my mother but there is also a Mary, daughter, who I have never heard of, all the other siblings I either knew or knew of them but not Mary. This is turning into more of a detective tale than an ancestor hunt. The other two children are Mildred born 1909 and Arthur, nit sure of his birth.
SilverVixen on 2012-04-04 15:00:35There is a death registered for a Mary Parkinson aged 4 in 1908 in Burnley, Lancashire
coppice on 2012-04-05 12:57:20Mary is a strange one, she is listed as 8 in the 1911 census but sister Mildred is entered as dead. I remember Mildred at eighty and still going strong so it is definitely wrong. I do wonder if Mary had died but surely then she wounld not be on the census.