Genealogy Chat

i have my dads soldiers service and pay book his name is EDWARD HENRY SCOTTdob 1/8/1915 but in the book it is put down as 1/8/1913 enlisted in BURSLAM S.O.TRENT.9/1/1935 his next of kin is GLAYDS SCOTT (WIFE) my dad was married before to this lady how would i find when he was married have tried to look through the BMD bit by bit but it is doing my head in is there an better way or not any surgestions kindly received

have you got your dads birth certificate eto confirm his date of birth ? did he have to be 21 to join so lied to get in?

no sorry i have not got actual birth cert but have looked up birth for him in 1915 its there on the 1/8/1915 with mothers name poole born in wolstanton unless he lied about his age that was when we had his birthday he died in 1979 aged 64

more likely he lied about the 1913 to make him 21 when he joined up, when and where have looked for the marriage to this gladys

have started in 1930 up to 1935 at the moment just trying to find all edward henry scott and cross referance them with maiden name os spouse to see if any are glayds long shot or what!!! i dont even know if they were married in stoke or colchester or dunnmow way as that where he was stationed at some point because if have some letters from him to my mother regarding the other wife (glayds) he must have been having an affair with my mum!!!!!

omg carole did you just find out about the other wife?? so you have checked quater by quater form 1930 - 1935? how many edward henry scotts have you found? dont think it is a long shot think t is a very sensible way of finding the marriage..do you know if she died, or they divorced?

i did know that my dad was married before because i was told at some point that i have two sisters and a brother but until i read the letters i did not know that he was seeing my mum at the time he was married!! i have checked quarter by quarter from 1930 to 1935 but i was hoping if he enlisted in 1935 he would have been married before if his wife is on the book he would have to have been 18 when he got married unless i will have to go forward a bit more and he was married later and his wife was added later as next of kin

dont suppose you have any idea of their childrens names and ages when the letters were written as that may be another way of tracking her down?

the children where JEAN and SYDNEY these are on his service book his youngest daughter was SANDRA i met her at my dads funeral she was about late 20's early 30's then so i was born in 1959 so i guess she was born any time between 1947 onwards

The age of enlistment was 18, not 21 and yes they could fight for their country at 18 but could not vote or get married without parental consent until age 21. Funny old world!! If child born about 1947 try looking for a marriage about 1945/1947ish and the best way is to trawl about 10 years through each quarter, easier to do on 1837 online than the books or fiche. Janet

ok let me see if i can find any of their births, and fingers crossed their mother had an unusual maiden name

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carol is there a date on your dads service book with sydney and jean in it? does it have their ages of dates of birth?

there is no date against there names the only dates arewhen he enlisted 9/1/1935

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how about the letters your dad wrote to your mum are they dated?

thr letters are dated 1948 and 1949 its begining to look like a helpless case!!!

carole dont lose heart it is not a hopless case at all, the information is out there its just a matter of narrowing down the search...sorry for asking so many questions but sometimes the smallest thing helps....another question, did you get the impression that Jean and Sydney were quite a bit older than sandra? i am wondering if they bere born before the war and sandra after? that could be why the 2 eldest are in the book and sandra isnt. what do you think? also does your father talk about any of the children in the letters to your mum? isf he does does anything he says give a clue to how old they are? was your father still in the army when he wrote the letters?

my dad was still in the army he met my mum there she was in the ATS he was based in GREAT dunmow essex i have a picture of the three children jean sydney and sandra( on the back it says jean micheal and sandra 23/9/1951) i dont no whether micheal has sydny as a name as well because my dad had a brother called sydney. Jean is the eldest in the pic about 10 or 11 micheal is about 6 or 7 and sandra looks about 2 or 3 in one of the letters my dad did mention the daughter being put in a home i seem to think it is jean because there is some mention of an illness!!!

hi webster need to go and feed the family there are getting hungry they feel i have left them for the computer will log on later thanks for all your help so far kind regards carole