Are you related to Charles Dickens (deceased)?

Are you related to Charles Dickens (deceased)?
Have you ever wondered if you are related to someone famous. Well, if your surname isn't Dickens, you may think you're not related to him. Well, you may wish to think again. In a book written in the 19th. Century by John Forster called the Life of Charles Dickens, vol.1, some interesting information is 'revealed'.
Charles Dickens was born at Landport in Portsea on Friday the seventh of February, 1812. Charles' father's name was John Dickens and his mother Elizabeth Dickens. However, his mother's maiden name was BARROW. So do you have any Barrow surnames in your family tree. If you do, you maybe, just maybe, related to someone who was once a famous author (and still is, even though he died some time ago!). Elizabeth Dickens had a brother called Thomas Barrow.
So are you related to Charles Dickens (deceased)?

Owen, son of John and Elizabeth Jones.

I recently took a photo. of the 'grave headstone' of Owen, son of John and Elizabeth Jones, at St. James' Cemetery, Liverpool, England. Anyone interested, please contact me.

Burial Place-

If you're trying to find a burial place, search graveyards/cemeteries close to where the deceased died. You may wish to look around the graveyard, but you are probably better looking up indexes of burials at a record office or where records are kept. You may find the deceased being buried upto a week or so after the death.

More information soon.

Kind Regards,

Colin

Hi,

When checking indexes, please make sure you double-check with the most accurate official one, if you can't find what you're looking for!

Kind Regards,

Colin

Hi,

Now for some information on death certificates. Search the official index (or one online, but they mightn't have a full index). An importnat thing to remember on this one. It makes senses, where appropriate, to search for the wife first. If she has died, the certificate will probably tell you if the husband has already died. ie. widow of ........

Good luck with your searching and I'll be back soon.

Regards,

Colin

P.S. All the information on this blog mainly relates to people searching for ancestors born in England.

Hi,

Marriage Certificates- you may need to search the index. If you don't know when people were married, try looking at the years immediately prior to their first child's birth. Marriage certificates can give a wealth of information. If you know where they got married, you may not have to send off for a marriage certificate, and may be able to get a copy of the entry in a 'Church Marriage Register', at the appropriate record office.

Regards,

Colin

In order to help further, and double-check information, you may went to order birth, marriage and death certificates.

I'll tell you today about birth certificates. Registration started in 1837, although not everyone registered a birth. You will need to check an index, online or at a local record office (there may be a charge online). You will need to look under the surname, and the year is split into quarters. Look at the quarter after which they were born. If not there, try the quarter they were born in, and the quarter after the first one checked. If you don't know what month he/she was registered in, you'll just have to check the year. Unfortunately, there may be people with the same name. You will then, unfortunately, have to go through a process of elimination (trying the person on the index, registered in the area, closest to wherre you thought they'd been born). There is no guarantee, though, that any certificates ordered are going to refer to any of the people you are looking for.

Once you have found a reference number, you can then use it to order a copy of a birth certificate from the General Register Office. This can be done online or through the post. It will tell you who that person's parents were etc.