Who Do You Think You Are?

BIG QUESTION

Can you help me track down my forebear’s birth record, and tell me whether she was married before her wedding of 1808?

JULIE WILKINSON wrote to us for help with her awkward ancestor Jane Addington

Q I’m trying to solve the mystery surrounding one of my ancestors, Jane Addington. She married William Birdsall in Tadcaster in December 1830. The 1851

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