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Marriage in the late 1940's
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Rosalind | Report | 27 Dec 2009 23:48 |
thanks for your interest and advise, Im of to bed now.x goodnight and happy new year to you. |
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Rosalind | Report | 27 Dec 2009 23:42 |
ps I have found a death of an Edith Roberts in Pancras district in 1947 (right age) as this is the closest to Islington, Im going to order a certificate and see what that turns up. |
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Rosalind | Report | 27 Dec 2009 23:40 |
I hold the certificate for both the first marriage and the second, he uses the name of Edward Roberts on the first and Stanley edward Roberts on the second. both names he used during his lifetime, proof through Kellys. and childrens birth certificate. |
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Ivy | Report | 27 Dec 2009 22:51 |
My guess would be that there would be no need to provide any proof to the Registrar. Most marriages had to give notice (reasonably effective as banns read out to a small village church congregation, not so useful as one of many pieces of paper pinned to a Registry Office noticeboard); the church was against a second marriage until the first partner died; and if found out, bigamy carried a custodial sentence. Most people chose not to take those risks and married only when they were certain their first spouse had died. If this was the case here, then you might find the death registration of the first partner a short time before the 1940's wedding? |
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Rosalind | Report | 27 Dec 2009 22:07 |
thank you for offering though |
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Rosalind | Report | 27 Dec 2009 22:06 |
Hi, no its difficult and complicated. I have no proof of his name apart from what he used on his second marriage cert. he used two types of a common name in his lifetime and i have found a marriage in 1908 which could very well be him but i just have to prove it. It is so very complicated there is no birth certificate as he was supposidly born in Austria? then he was farmed out to be brought up by two aunts in London, while his birth mother went of to India, His only remaining living child is now 92 and remembers very little about her fathers past before he meet with her mother in 1914-1918, she firmly believes they married then, she knows nothing of his first marriage and i shall not tell her, but i have the marriage cert of her mum and dad dated 1949 when he was a widower. I have been researching for a very long time on different lines of enquiry and i am determined to find the answer, i am just exploring all the other avenues now as ive done all the normal ones. |
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Lindsey* | Report | 27 Dec 2009 21:05 |
what were their names, maybe we can find him? |
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Rosalind | Report | 27 Dec 2009 21:01 |
thank you for replying, im trying to find out about my grandfathers first marriage, i only have his marriage certificate to his second wife, which states widower. I have no idea who his first wife was or how to trace this, and wondered whether he would of have to had notified the registry office of his first wifes details or not. I think I might get in touch with the registry office and find this out. This first marriage has been kept secret and I have only just found out about it within the last few months. |
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Lindsey* | Report | 27 Dec 2009 20:58 |
I don't think you needed proof on paper. |
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Rosalind | Report | 27 Dec 2009 19:01 |
Hi, does anyone know, If a couple married in 1949 at a registry office and one of them was widowed, Would they have to prove before marriage that there first spouse was deceased, or would there word be taken as the truth. |