Another fantastic trace
26th January 2017
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100 year old freeholder trace
We had a case in last week for a freeholder
of a property. Read how our people tracing experts found the right person
through genealogy trawls and historical data sweeps. (we have changed the names and
addresses to ensure our clients privacy)
We were
supplied details of Ivy Smith of 33 Cheshire Street Chelmsford.
We started with Ivy. Historical data sweeps
with the British library and other historical resources located numerous
newspaper articles about her role as an RSPCA worker. We also found some court details
regarding a minor infraction she was involved with from this data we soon found
that she was aged 39 at that time. However,
this article was published in 1930 meaning that she would have been born in or
near 1891.
We then reverted to the birth index and
quickly found matching results.
Great! We now had a full birth name and a
full date of birth. But did she marry? Did she have children?
As you can imagine with a name like smith
the marriage searches were long and tiresome. We sieved through countless possible
marriages only to discount them each time. We did consider that it was
reasonable that she did not marry.
We then reverted back to the genealogy
sweeps and obtained her birth certificate and constructed a small family tree.
She had one sister, Helen, born in 1895 and
one brother, Thomas, born in 1896. Her father Colin appeared to marry her
mother Eve, in 1890.
We then located a death for her father and
obtained a copy of his will. He died in 1950 meaning that Ivy was around 59
years old and this document had confirmed she was not married.
Death searches did locate several name
matches but none of these matches appeared to be our subject.
We then reverted to the rest of the family
and again searches for death records.
It seems that her brother, Thomas, married
Lilly in 1918 and had a child. Adam Smith in 1922. Again we confirmed the death
of Adam smith in 1999. Again, we located his will.
The will indicated that Adam had a daughter
who was married and was now known as Sarah Hughes. The address on the will was
out of date but we quickly traced a current address in Addlestone Surrey.
We wrote to Mrs. Hughes and asked her if
she had any knowledge of IVY.
GREAT NEWS! She Did!
She knew that Ivy was in a long-term
relationship with Simon Walters. Simon was married before. They never married
but Ivy took on the name.
Low and behold we found the death of Ivy
Walters in 1966.
We located her will which named, a new
beneficiary
CASE CLOSED!
Our client was fascinated with the lengths our
researches went to obtain the confirmation of Ivy’s death and locate the new
beneficiary.
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