Update on "Locate a Grave"

[kat2206]

Hi all and thank you to everyone who gave their comments, support and most importantly those who gave me the information that I needed to locate my dads deceased mother.

I spoke to the Spalding Registration Office on the Monday morning and any day now I should be receiving her marraige and death certificates, with these in hand we can, hopefully, locate more information. We are also going to try to locate the old newspapers within the local library to see if anything was written up about the fire in which she died.

I will, of course, keep you updated.

[jackthehat]

Excellent news...........:o)

[cazzz1975]

thank you for the update kat x

[kat2206]

I have, today, received the Death and Marraige certificates...

Death was caused by "shock resulting from burns caused through her clothing igniting whilst warming herself at kitchen fire". What a shame, poor woman!!

She died 29th October 1931 aged 26. My dad was just 1 yrs old at that time.

Marriage certificate doesnt give me a great deal of information, other than the date of marriage being 27th December 1928 in Spalding and her fathers name of John Kellett (deceased). So I still no nothing about her date of birth, where she was born etc...
From what I can decipher on the marriage certificate though I'm pretty sure it sure it states that her father was a "local miner" it might read something totally different to that though.

[jackthehat]

What a dreadful way to die.......:o(

You know her name and a rough year for her birth, so why not try looking on here http://www.1911census.co.uk/ for her. She will be in the household of her father John, a Miner (providing he wasn't already dead by then).

[jackthehat]

Actually, I had a shufftie and although I couldn't see Jennie, there is this record on 1911 census...
KELLETT JOHN M 1879 32 Grimsby Lincolnshire

To see the complete details, though, would cost money. Perhaps that may be something you would like to consider ?

[kat2206]

I have found The Baptist Church in Spalding and have written to them not sure if I'm "barking up wrong tree" but on their marriage certificate it states that they were married at The General Baptist meeting House in Spalding.

I will definately follow up on her father, thank you for sourcing that information for me.

[kat2206]

I followed up on the 1911 census for John Kellett, unfortunately it didnt give me any information other than name and place of birth.

[kat2206]

I think I may have found a document/census for Jennie but on that document it states that her fathers name is Jesse but on her marriage certificate her fathers name is John. Can John be another name for Jesse, as in Peg was another name used for Margaret etc?

[jackthehat]

Morning :o)
I don't think that John/Jesse are interchangeable. However, that doesn't mean that it is not the same chap...........mistakes can be made.

Where was John Kellet born and when ?

What details did your census searches turn up ? There may be other avenues to explore based on the information.

[kat2206]

Hi, on the 1911 census there were loads of John Kelletts... I entered Jennie into ancestry.co.uk and up came Jesse Kellett (father) and Ester (mother). Jennie being born in West Yorkshire, year of birth approx 1900. Well, we have deduced that she was born around 1905 so it could be her..