I'm not sure if anyone can help me but I/m having great difficulty finding my great grandfather (John Charles WIntour) birth details and so his parents etc. My family history trail has come to a halt at the moment. Any one have any suggestions please? The details I have are 24th August 1872 in Whitecroft, Lydney but there don't seem to be any records that I can find. Ty

This should get you started:

Birth Registration from GRO Index:
Name: Mother's Maiden Surname:
WHINTOUR, JOHN CHARLES LEWIS
GRO Reference: 1872 S Quarter in MONMOUTH Volume 11A Page 30

This tells us that mother's maiden name is LEWIS.

Possible marriage of parents:
Marriages Jun 1870
Lewis Caroline Monmouth 11a 36
WINTOUR Richard Monmouth 11a 36

A transcript of this marriage can be found in the Parish Registers on this site.

Mike

Thank you so much for finding these details.....certainly gives me something to go with :-)

This I assume is John Charles WINTOUR's marriage to Elizabeth Ann WOOD - Lancaster - as later census confirms he was born in Whitecroft

27 December 1897 at the Parish Church of St George Mossley, in the County of Lancaster

John Charles WINTOUR - aged 25 - Locomotive Engine Driver - residence at time of Marriage HollIinwood
father: Richard WINTOUR - Labourer

Elizabeth Ann WOOD aged 22 Spinster born Mossley, father: Frederick WOOD - Grinder

witnesses: Jesse WOOD, Emily WINTOUR

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1911 census, John was a Locomotive Engine Driver for Manchester S. Canal born Whitecroft

There is a Public Members Tree on Ancestry

Richard WINTOUR - 1848-1900 - married Caroline LEWIS (2nd Cousin 4x) - 1853-1918

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On the tree: and the Witness at John Charles... wedding i.e. Emily WINTOUR

was born 1881, Pontypridd, Glamorgan.

Richard WINTOUR and his family are on the 1891 Census, in Derbyshire - Richard aged 39, is a Carpenter on the Railways - born Forest of Dean Gloucestershire with his family - and John (is called by his Second name i.e. Charles)

Charles WINTOUR - Son - 18 - Engine Driver, bonr Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire

Thank you so much for all the information and advice...... I have managed to go further back in to my ancestry than I thought. I'm now around the 16th - 17th centuries. :-)