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Don't know what to think about Eric RJ at the moment, my head is spinning, can't understand why as you say, things just don't pan out.

Don't know what to think about Eric RJ at the moment, my head is spinning, can't understand why as you say, things just don't pan out.

Any thoughts about Eric RJ?

It's just that his parents are a little odd that makes me think about him, there having to be some reason why the info on your parents' marriage certificate (age, father's name) just doesn't pan out.

I see bogus names around every corner, as everyone here can tell you, having such a plethora of them in my own families. ;)

Unfortunately none of us ever spoke about my father to my mother. She neither offered any information, I suppose on the basis that we never asked. pretty much the same now,in as much that my elder brother knows I am looking but doesn't know or is not saying much either.

That couple I was looking at ... oddments ...

Births Mar 1900
Thompson Alfred William J W. Ham 4a 66

Births Jun 1900 ?
Neal Lilian Maud Stepney 1c 392

Alfred W J Thompson + Lilian M Neal Jul-Aug-Sep 1919 Lewisham Kent

Alfred W J Thompson + Lilian M Neal Jul-Aug-Sep 1923 East Stonehouse Devon


only the one apparent birth to the marriage.

And it looks like Alfred married again ... there is no other AWJT birth to account for the marriage:

Marriages Jun 1943
Connolly Patricia M Thompson Poplar 1c
Thompson Alfred W J Connolly Poplar 1c 404
- mistranscribed as Albert by Ancestry

with a birth in 1946 possibly. PMC probably born 1920 Poplar.

Can't find a death for either one ...


Just thinking that this sort of background could account for not knowing one's father's name accurately.

It's also possible that Ronald simply lied about his age if he hadn't told your mum he was older than her.


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Hm - this seems to be the AWJT who married in 1943:

Name: Alfred William J Thompson
Birth Date: 25 Jan 1920
Death Registration Month/Year: Mar 1988
Age at death (estimated): 68
Registration district: Hackney
Inferred County: London
Volume: 12
Page: 1374

but ... there is no birth to match. Two Alfred Ws in Q1 1920 (no Alfred J):

Alfred H W Thompson Jan Feb Mar 1920 W Ham mother Hogg
Alfred W Thompson Apr May Jun 1920 Lambeth mother Gibson


I'm still really curious about this one.

Before I started my search, Cardiff in Wales was the favourite place to start looking as it had been mentioned many times throughout the years between my sisters that he was welsh and came from there. To be honest, of all the birth certificates I have obtained there was a Ronald John Thompson Born 22nd June 1927 30a Cowbridge road, Cardiff.
Only thing wrong with this one, like all the other 30 b/certificates his fathers name does not match the name of John Henry that was on his marriage cert when he married my mother. The fathers name on the birth cert reads Harold Thompson. Of all the b/certs I have got, that's the closest I have got.

A, a merchant seaman. Could mean he was native to the Plymouth area, seafaring being a big occupation, or he was just in town on business. ;)

You weren't the only or oldest kid -- does an older sibling not remember anything about him, or ever meeting a grandparent?

Trying to track this one around ...

Name: Eric *R J* Thompson
Mother's Maiden Surname: Neal
Date of Registration: Oct Nov Dec 1923
* Registration district: Devonport
Registration county: Devon/Cornwall/Seilly
Volume Number: 5b
Page Number: 416

Now, there is a marriage in that name in oct-nov-dec 1948 (!) in Ealing, which could be the person of the same name born in apr-may-jun 1931 in Chelsea (wife Doris O Clayton born 1929 Brentford) (Eric Richard J, died 1984 Waltham Forest).

But this is that EJRT's parents' marriage:

Lilian M Neal * Alfred WJ Thompson Jul-Aug-Sep 1923 East Stonehouse Devon


As mentioned above, the father's name on the marriage certificate could be bogus for one reason or another.

Ronalds occupatio on his marriage certificate was a Merchant seaman, that was in 1948. Not a clue where he went after the divorce although Cornwall has been mentioned in the past but that could be just another wild goose chase.

You're doing everything right, have no fear. Everybody was searching away behind the scenes and coming up with no more than you, from what I can see, and so just asking for any more info you might have or come up with or think of in response to a question. ;)

I am answering but I don't know if I'm doing something wrong!

What was Ronald's occupation? Where did he go after the divorce?

Rose

Hi Marie, no unfortunately I don't know whether he is still alive or not.

Hi Mary, Ronald John F R yes got that one, doesn't match, and as Rose has said,he married in the same quarter in 1948 although I did have a bad feeling about that as well until I checked the birth cert against the fathers name.

Hi patchem, no exact birth date, hence me trying to match all the birth certs I have obtained to the name given as his father John Henry Thompson

Hi Gwyn, John Hennry (deceased) occupation/proffession was stated as Furniture Remover, and unfortunately there were no other Thompson witnesses at the marriage.

Hi Marie, I don't know whether he is still alive.

Could be he lied and said he was 21 when he was actually younger.

Rose

Ronald J F R isn't the one because he married the same quarter in 1948.

Rose

Hi

What about the John H Thompson marriage in 1924 Burton Staffs to a Emmie E H Owen. ?