Re: does anyone know Honor Blackman's parents names please

Roy you are very knowledgeable an your input is appreciated. "Will" you
are a dead ***!
Thanks for reading my news anyway........
Kindest regards to all
Terry & Jan Stephens

"Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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From: "Terrance Stephens" <terrystephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Trying to put Honor Blackman into our family tree but do not known her
parents names. My wife, Janice Blackman is a distant cousin and has
lost touch with family ties Honor born 22.8.1926 in Plaistow, London,
England. Resided in Cumberland Road. Thanks... Terry Stephens >

This is not FriendsReunited or GenesReunited, this is a list for serious
genealogical research. Why don't you do it properly, i.e. the way the rest
of us have to do it, using the resources available? Permit me to give you
a short course.....

1) Find out in which registration district Plaistow lies. This is easily
done
with Google or at FreeBMD. It proves to be a sub-district of West Ham.

2) You probably have the wrong birth date! Most websites show Honor
Blackman's birth as being on Dec 12 1927, though one site says it's
"either 22 August 1926 or 12 December 1927, depending on your
source". This, too, is easily found with Google.

3) Check out the General Register Office Birth Indexes, available at
several sites on the Internet. If the date of birth you have is correct,
then
she would have been most likely registered in either the Sep or Dec
quarter of 1926. The only female Blackman registered at West Ham in
those quarters is a Joan S Blackman in the Oct-Dec quarter, mother's
maiden name Harrington. However, there was a DAISY H BLACKMAN
registered at West Ham in the December quarter of 1927 and I suspect
this is her (would she have become famous as Daisy Blackman, I
wonder?), vol 4a page 91, mother's maiden name COULDRIDGE.

4) Look at FreeBMD and you will see the marriage at West Ham in the
June quarter of 1924 of James Blackman and Lucy Couldridge, vol 4a
page 806.

5) Apply for both certificates from the GRO. If you are not sure whether
you have the right one, you can put checking references and if it's not
right they won't issue it and you get some of your money back. An
obvious checkpoint on the birth certificate is whether the middle initial
H
stands for Honor.

6) Trace the ancestry of her parents farther back from the marriage
certificate, with FreeBMD and the censuses. If you are lucky they will
both be on the 1901 census. I can tell you there is only one Lucy
Couldridge at Hackney, which may well be the mother, but 117 James
Blackmans all over the place.

There, that's how it's done. I leave the rest to you!

--
Roy Stockdill
Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies
Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:
www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,
and that is not being talked about."
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