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was they ever married?
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Emma | Report | 12 Jun 2009 17:21 |
thankyou every one, this information you have all given me has helped loads.......best wishes to u all looking for your own relatives and ancestors |
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Choccy | Report | 12 Jun 2009 11:32 |
Have PM'd Emma with a possible marriage in view of possible living relatives |
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KathleenBell | Report | 12 Jun 2009 11:30 |
My husband and his brother both have their father's name on their birth certificates and then mother's name and formerly....... indicating that she was married to the father but this was not so. They never actually married ....just lived as man and wife because he was already married to someone else in the 1920's. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 12 Jun 2009 10:06 |
How far back have you looked for the marriage. Don't forget there was WW2 around that time so they may have married and then the dad wasnt around cos he was in the War, for example I know of a couple who married in 1939 ,he was called up and was away in the Army and didnt come back home till 1946. their only child was born in 1947. |
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mgnv | Report | 12 Jun 2009 03:07 |
No, they couldn't put any surname they liked (forenames were a completely different matter, however). If a woman were married, she'ld have to say Joyce Walker formerly Weight. If she'd wed as a widow, she'ld say Joyce Walker late Smith formerly Weight. The "lateness" refers to her use of the name, not to the status of Mr Smith - she'ld say exactly the same if she divorced Mr Smith. It was assumed the father was her husband, and she (or the informant) would name the father as Reginald Walker. If she were not married, the mother would be named as Joyce Weight (or Joyce Smith formerly Weight), and the kid would get the name Weight (or Smith). If the father went in and acknowledged paternity, his name would also be entered, and Keith could call himself either Keith Weight or Keith Walker, whatever he fancied (one occassionally sees "Keith Weight or Walker"). |
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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! | Report | 11 Jun 2009 18:39 |
Did your dad have any siblings? |
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Emma | Report | 11 Jun 2009 18:32 |
joyce winifred waight born ipswich lived in brentwood essex around time my dad was born. reginald born gloucester and lived in pitsea essex then basingstoke.......regards |
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basman | Report | 11 Jun 2009 18:25 |
Hi Emma, |
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Emma | Report | 11 Jun 2009 17:55 |
my dads birth cert says mother joyce winifred walker formaly waight. think i have found her =birth may 1924 death joyce newman 2003. his dad was reginald a walker=birth 9 dec 1917, death jan 1991. cant find a marriage between them but my dads birth certificte indicates they got married. were they allowed to put any name on the b.cert back then? if anyone can help would be most grateful |