Q I'm looking for details of the parents of my great grandmother, Minnie Bickmore (born 1866). The family story is that her father, John Bickmore, died at sea and her mother, Hannah, died young. On some notes I've found, she was called Minnie Peacock, but this seems unlikely. When she married in 1887, she named her father as John Bickmore, deceased. On the 1891 census, her place of birth was Little Baddow, Essex, but in 1911 it was Sandon, Essex, and in 1901, Standon. I can't locate her in 1871 or 1881. I've found two possible birth certificates for her including one for Little Baddow, but no father is named. I'm also unable to find a marriage for Hannah and John Bickmore.
Jo Woodworth
A The clue here is the surname Peacock…