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I’m trying to trace the groom from a 1917 marriage at South Shields Register Office, but unless he died in 1916 and rose from the dead then I’m completely stumped!

Robert Grieves, 37, Bachelor, Private Northumberland Fusiliers (marine stoker), 56 Albion Street, Jarrow.  Father: Alfred Grieves, Ship Driller
Gwendoline O'Toole, 38, Widow, 56 Albion Street, Jarrow [NB also known as Winifred]
Wits: Wm C Barclay & Elizabeth Badger

His service number was 10175, and the Shields Daily Gazette of 27 July 1917 has an article about him being charged as a deserter.  He told magistrates that he enlisted at the outbreak of war, served for a week, and then left the camp and went to sea.  His age is given as 37 and he was found in Albarry Street (sic).

His pension cards give addresses of 46 Rose Street, Hebburn (his address in 1921) and 6˝ Villier Street, Sunderland.  The latter ties in with a Merchant Seamans record giving his birth as 27 Mar 1883, Sunderland, Next of Kin: Alfred Grieves, 6˝ Villier Street, Sunderland.  NB The 1921 census gives his age as 40 years & 3-months, born Sunderland, so born Mar 1881

Despite all of this information I can’t find him before marriage, unless he is the Robert Graves who married Margaret Kirven in 1906 in Jarrow.  In 1911 he is with Margaret at 57 High Street, Jarrow, aged 30.  With them is his widowed mother Hannah Graves (nee Day) aged 57 born Hull.

I have this man’s birth certificate – born 11 Feb 1881 High Street Jarrow, parents Robert (Iron Shipyard Labourer) and Hannah (nee Day).  Registered 7 May 1881

This Robert is reported to have died 31 May 1916 whilst serving aboard HMS Queen Mary.  Margaret’s widows pension says Robert was in the Royal Navy Reserve, No. 2973, but his RNR records (from TNA) give his DoB as 11 Jun 1885!

To further complicate things there are school records in Sunderland in 1893 and 1897 for a Robt Grieves born either 6 Mar 1885 (father Alfred) or 27 Mar 1886 (father deceased). 

Can anyone help me sort this out please!

I've had a few occasions lately when I've struggled with obscure locations and/or place names, and it occurred to me that I haven't seen Stan on the boards for quite a while. 

His profile says he was last active on 6 Oct 22, which is a little concerning, so I was wondering if anyone has been in contact with him since then?

I don't really know much about US marriage laws / procedures so I'm hoping that someone can enlighten me as to why the words "Don't Publish" might be written on a marriage document? 

Was there some sort of requirement that marriages were formally published somewhere, or maybe they just didn't want it appearing in the local newspapers?

The marriage was between Jacob Schwab & Maria Morgan(s), who were married on 24 May 1893 by Edgar E Scovill, Congregational Minister. 

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I've been searching for some time for George Collier, born 17 Sep 1840 South Shields, Durham, England to parents Thomas Collier & Isabella Gleghorn.

I have him on the 1851 census in Newcastle upon Tyne (aged 9) and then breaking into a school in 1854, but after that he vanishes.

There is a possibility that he may be the George Gleghorn, born c1842 South Shields who is in the 1861 census at Shorncliffe Camp, Kent, serving in the 1st Battalion 16 Regiment Of Infantry (Foot).

From the newspapers, this regiment travelled to Canada in 1862, and in 1871 I've found the following family in Lambton, Ontario:

George Cleghorn 29 Engineer b England - CofE
Catherine 24 b East Indies - Catholic
Isabella 4 b Ontario - Catholic
May 2 b Ontario - Catholic

In 1881 they are in Embro/Oxford North, but the youngest daughter's name has changed and they are all CofE (as Clighorer on FindMyPast:
George Cleghorn 40 Labourer b England
Catherine 33 b East Indies
Isabella 14 b Ontario
Catherine 12 b Ontario

I can find no more trace of the Cleghorns, other than on online tree which says that Isabella married Robert George Shaw around 1882, and died in 1887 in Lambton, Ontario as Bella Shaw.

Any help in tracing George & family after this would be greatly appreciated.