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Did your cousin stay with her father and brothers - or was she brought up elsewhere? Just wondering if they ever talked about her mother - for instance what leads you to believe she was of Irish background? There must be some snippets of information she can remember if prodded.

does the marriage certificate give her address,
names of witnesses to the marriage ????

Thanks Reggie
I have a marriage certificate and a (death certificate) but it doesn't have her mothers maiden name only her dads name as Richard Clifford a printer journeyman he was dead when she married in 1930 I have tried to go back through the census to find him with no luck if any one could help with how I get a mothers name I would much appreciate it

Have you obtained the marriage cert since you last posted in 2012?

If you wish to find out about her, you need to know who her father was................

I take it that this is her death?

Deaths Jun 1941 (>99%)
Bostock Mary M 36 Mansfield 7b 165

thank you everyone for your help I will try all avenues :-)

I would like to thank everyone for their replys and wil look I into them all :-)
I only know what I have put in upto yet and will try and get a marrige certificate
I have been told Mary May clifford also known as May was probably born of Irish decent and I think that is why i can;t find a definate birth place as I know she was born 1905 she was married and died in Huthwaite I have

Thanks Cynthia a great help when your a newby

This looks like the May I posted earlier in the 1911 census with her family:-

1911 census transcription details for: 5 Nechells Row Taylor St Birmingham

National Archive Reference:
RG14PN18252 RG78PN1101 RD385 SD3 ED22 SN21
Reg. District: Aston
Sub District: Duddeston
Parish: Aston
Enum. District: 22

Address: 5 Nechells Row Taylor St Birmingham
County: Warwickshire

Name Relation Condition/
Yrs married Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born

CLIFFORD, George Head Married M 29 1882 Wood Dealer Birmingham
CLIFFORD, Lottie Wife Married 8 years F 25 1886 Birm
CLIFFORD, Lottie Daughter F 8 1903 School Birm
CLIFFORD, Amy Daughter F 6 1905 School Birm
CLIFFORD, Annie Daughter F 4 1907 School Birm
CLIFFORD, May Daughter F 0 (6 MONTHS) 1911 Birm

5 children born to this marriage. 4 living and 1 has died by 1911.
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This looks like the marriage of the above couple:-


Name: CLIFFORD, George
Registration district: Aston
County: Warwickshire
Year of registration: 1901
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's last name: Not available before 1912
Volume no: 6D
Page no: 627

Name: HORTON, Lottie
Registration district: Aston
County: Warwickshire
Year of registration: 1901
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's last name: Not available before 1912
Volume no: 6D
Page no: 627

Kath. x

The marriage gives her name as just May:-


Name: BOSTOCK, Godfrey
Registration district: Birmingham North
County: Warwickshire
Year of registration: 1930
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's last name: Clifford
Volume no: 6D
Page no: 1080

Name: CLIFFORD, May
Registration district: Birmingham North
County: Warwickshire
Year of registration: 1930
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's last name: Bostock
Volume no: 6D
Page no: 1080

This is the only likely birth I can see (a bit later than you thought):-

Name: CLIFFORD, May
Registration district: Aston
County: Warwickshire
Year of registration: 1910
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Mother's maiden name: Not available before 1911 Q3
Volume no: 6D
Page no: 261

Kath. x

Do you know roughly where Mary was born..
Sue

Do you have the marriage cert ?

I am looking for any information on the above, for a cousin in Austailia she married a Godfrey Bostock in 1930 at what was the north Birmingham registry office then lived in Huthwaite in Nottinghamshire she died aged 36 in 1941 my cousin never new her mum as she was only 3 at the time
I have been told she might come from an Irish background