Hi Admin,
I have my great-grandfather's marriage cert. in my hands. His mother is not named on this. His father's name is George Smedley and I have found reference to a George Smedley in Parkend. The records show that George marries a lady called Caroline Griffiths a year before my great-grandfather is born. This Caroline is from Yorkley. My grand mother (so my great-grandfather's daughter) is also called Caroline. I still have not located his birth, so I can't be sure that this George is his father. The marriage cert. has him living in Yorkshire by then (at age 24). Hubert (my great-grandfather) is listed as a coal miner and so is George. Any ideas of where to go from here? The birth cert. just doesn't seems to be anywhere.