Its a long shot, but would anyone know of a Mike Brodie, who came from St. Briavels & would be around 77 years old now. His sister was a nursing siter at Gloucester Royal Hospital in the early 1970's & Mike was an engineer with Bowker-King Shipping working out of Avonmouth. My father Dennis (Jack) Poole, would like to get in touch with Mike as they worked together at that time & he sometmes came back to Cheltenham to stay with our family, when on leave with the Merchant Navy. My father has tried contacting the Royal Fleet Auxiliary assn, (Mike was on RFA Pearleaf in the 60's), but had no luck on that score as yet. Any info would be appreciated.
Rob

Hi Rob,
As you may know this forum isn't intended for searching Living Relatives, hence this and other similar sites doesn't include recent PRs, see
http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?

I've seen your forum enquiries re the Bowker-King line, have you also tried researching his sister's Hospital links for possible guidance ? (Do you know her name, I guess not ?). I suspect you've already searched this site's PRs for clues, if you have you'll know the Brodie/Brody etc surname is very rare in the Forest. Indeed searching all of Gloucestershire for it within GlosBMD gives very little, if anything, to help except maybe the Marriage below ??.

I suggest you searched FreeBMD which gives good coverage for our area up until the 1960s or so, be warned the site will only search the exact surname spelling you enter.
Could this be your Michael, many are listed but this is the only one close to the Forest and abt the right timeframe that I can find ?

Surname Given Name Mother District Volume Page
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Births Mar 1937
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Brodie Michael A Bunton Bromyard 6a 731
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

This is possibly his Marriage, unfortunately not giving Ms Evans' full name without more research,
Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
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Marriages Jun 1964 (>99%)
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BRODIE MICHAEL A EVANS BROMYARD 9A 5
COLLETT BARRY COOMBS BROMYARD 9A 5
COOMBS JENNIFER A G COLLETT BROMYARD 9A 5

A possible son, perhaps, from GlosBMD:

Marriage Details

Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building Year Register Entry
BRODIE Michael WILLEMSE Margareth Forest of Dean Forest of Dean Register Office (post 1974) 1983 6 209

???

SO, as in the past with similar enquiries, my best advice is to write open letters to the local newspapers, and perhaps father north into Herefordshire too, they will clearly have a far greater readership than this forum. This prior thread may help, altho be advised I've also searched his surname in the FoD Council Cemeteries site without finding any variation of it at all.
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=42616

Good luck !

Jeff:

Ancestry -

Michael A BRODIE - married Jean M EVANS - A/M/J Qtr 1964 - Bromyard, Herefordshire

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??? Not sure how many M A BRODIE's there would be.....

Ancestry: British Phone Books - 1980-1984

Peterborough

M A BRODIE - 41 Ellingham Ave - Telephone No: MARCH-3862

A possible son, perhaps, from GlosBMD:

Marriage Details

Groom Surname Groom Forename Bride Surname Bride Forename District Parish Building .Year Register Entry
BRODIE Michael WILLEMSE Margareth Forest of Dean Forest of Dean Register Office (post 1974) 1983 6 209

I suspect this is an unrelated marriage ( to Bromyard birth 1937) and you would have some luck looking in the Malvern area for this Michael and Margareth, as this Michael is approx. 70

Company address: FIELDGRANGE (MALVERN) MANAGEMENT LIMITED
21 WORCESTER ROAD, GREAT MALVERN, WORCESTERSHIRE, WR14 4QY

MICHAEL BRODIE was Born circa 1943
MARGARETH BRODIE was born circa 1947

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1911 Corndean Farm, Winchcombe, Glos

Alexander Gardiner Brodie 42 farmer from Ayrshire
Emily Mary Ann Brodie 30 Worcestershire
Alexander Thomas Franklin Brodie 5 Glos
George Gardiner Brodie 2 Glos
William Gordon Brodie 3 months Glos

Name:Alexander T F Brodie
Spouse :Dorothy M Bunten
Date of Registration:Jan-Feb-Mar 1936
Registration District:Stow on the Wold
Inferred County:Gloucestershire
Volume Number:6a
Page Number:699

children:- 2 sisters for Michael

Michael A Brodie Jan-Feb-Mar 1937 Bromyard Gloucestershire

John F Brodie Apr-May-Jun 1939 Bromyard Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Herefordshire

Jane M Brodie Oct-Nov-Dec 1941 Bromyard Gloucestershire

Philip J Brodie Jul-Aug-Sep 1943 Bromyard Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Herefordshire

Janet E Brodie Jan-Feb-Mar 1951 Bromyard Shropshire

Name:Alexander Thomas F Brodie
Birth Date:10 Jul 1905
Date of Registration:Mar 1986
Age at Death:80
Registration District:Bromyard
Inferred County:Herefordshire
Volume:29
Page:230

Name:Dorothy Mary Brodie
Birth Date:29 Aug 1911
Date of Registration:Dec 2004
Age at Death:93
Registration District:Bromyard
Inferred County:Herefordshire
Register Number:25C
District and Subdistrict:513/1
Entry number:113

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