Question

I cannot find any record of margaret adelaide heap's birth. born 17 feb 1940, married john gilfoyle in 1958. help?

Answer 1

Helps to have all info and a good place to store new info. Took a while to find your wikitree sites still looking for the country we are talking about.

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Heap-3

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gilfoyle-2

any info of peacocks in wythenshawe?

i am trying to find out who my mother, margaret adelaide heap was brought up by. i remember them as gran and grandad peacock, from the wythenshaw area of manchester, my mothers parents died before she was 10 years old.
she married john gilfoyle, my father in 1958

http://www.familytreecircles.com/any-info-of-peacocks-in-wythenshawe-46832.html

 

Answer 2

Where were you looking ?

The UK BMD has the birth on FindMyPast...

 

( http://www.findmypast.co.uk/ ) 

Name: HEAP, Margaret A

Registration district: Manchester

County: Lancashire

Year of registration: 1940

Quarter of registration: Jan-Feb-Mar

Mother's maiden name: Fleet

Volume no: 8D

Page no: 411

 

And the FreeBMD has the birth as well...

( http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ ) 

 

Births Mar 1940

Heap Margaret A Fleet Manchester 8d 411

 

Cheers,

Answer 3

Steve,  To address your follow-up question...

To make use of records you are going to need more information but as a start below are the marriages of male "peacock"s in manchester in the 20 years before Margaret's birth:

 

Marriages Mar 1923

Peacock  Abraham  Tittle  Manchester  8d 225   

Marriages Jun 1925

PEACOCK  Charles E  Fleet  Manchester S  8d 414   

PEACOCK  Samuel  Cutts  Manchester S  8d 3   

Marriages Jun 1926

Peacock  Edgar G  Briscoe  Manchester N  8d 1058   

Marriages Sep 1926

Peacock  Alfred  Barber  Manchester S.  8d 14   

Marriages Dec 1926

Peacock  Abraham  Speet  Manchester N.  8d 706   

Peacock  James  Williams  Manchester N.  8d 734   

Marriages Jun 1927

Peacock  Alexander  Bertenshaw  Manchester N.  8d 1213   

Peacock  Ernest  Fern  Manchester S.  8d 101   

Peacock  Herbert S  Ferneyhough  Manchester S.  8d 547   

Marriages Mar 1928

PEACOCK  Frank A  Curtis  Manchester South  8d 223   

Marriages Jun 1928

Peacock  Charles R D  Meachin  Manchester N.  8d 1053   

Marriages Sep 1928

Peacock  Charles  Taylor  Manchester S.  8d 545   

Peacock  Frederick  Hartshorn  Manchester S.  8d 330   

Marriages Dec 1928

Peacock  Samuel  Smith  Manchester S.  8d 357   

Marriages Mar 1929

Peacock  James H G  Valovitch  Manchester N.  8d 859   

Marriages Jun 1929

Peacock  Ernest  Littlewood  Manchester S.  8d 145   

Marriages Sep 1929

Peacock  Henry  Horricks  Manchester North  8d 1512   

Peacock  Thomas  Glennie  Manchester North  8d 1565   

Marriages Sep 1930

Peacock  Harry L  Jones  Manchester S.  8d 30   

Marriages Dec 1930

Peacock  Albert  Mosley  Manchester N.  8d 829   

Marriages Jun 1931

Peacock  Charles  Jones  Manchester S.  8d 235   

Marriages Dec 1931

Peacock  Arthur  Sarson  Manchester N.  8d 878   

Peacock  Tom F  Travis  Manchester S.  8d 181   

Marriages Dec 1932

Peacock  John  Evans  Manchester S.  8d 310   

Marriages Jun 1933

Peacock  Edward  Adey  Manchester S.  8d 511   

Marriages Sep 1934

Peacock  Robert  Baker  Manchester N.  8d 1371   

Marriages Mar 1936

Peacock  Stanley  Beesley  Manchester S.  8d 213   

Marriages Jun 1936

Peacock  Joseph  Jackson  Manchester N.  8d 1227   

Marriages Dec 1936

Peacock  Harry P  Shipton  Manchester S.  8d 303   

Marriages Sep 1937

Peacock  George H  Byrne  Manchester N  8d 1549   

Marriages Dec 1937

Peacock  John R  Dale  Manchester S  8d 222   

Marriages Dec 1939

Peacock  Henry  Storrow  Manchester  8d 904   

Peacock  Thomas  Ross  Manchester  8d 519