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May have found a record of his death.....June 1970, St Austell, Cornwall?? 7a 383.  I am wondering if he married again, and if so would it have been considered bigamy??  He deserted my Nan, Ethel Maud Hughes circa 1924 -1926, she married again in 1939 after no trace of him. JM

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Couldn't the two Thomas Humphreys still be one and the same?  Perhaps Thomas changed his occupation from shoemaker to Ag. lab if he could find no work/ had to sell his tools/ sight deteriorated for close work??? 

Help!

J.M.

Thank you for looking.  Perhaps I should write to a local newspapaer in Ebbw Vale and see if any Pugh families recall an Arthur Pugh relation who suffered with malaria.  My friend has suggested that Arthur Charles Pugh may have married again himself.

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June

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If we grant a life span of say 86 years to Charles Arthur Pugh, a good innings, that would mean there should be a record of death anytime between 1924/25 when he disappeared and 1986.

He could have gone abroad or stayed in England under an assumed name.  What happened when people disappeared in the 1920s?  Was there a police search,( there may be a record of disappearance) or if the relatives did not report it, no one bothered to look? Perhaps he had ill treated my Nan , and she did not care to have him back. I would have thought his own relatives in Ebbw Vale would have made enquiries after him.

His mother lived in Ebbw Vale we think because my Aunty Maud, his and my Nan's first and eldest daughter, born 1921, had a postcard of a very severe looking old lady , all in black, a photo of Charles' mother on the back of which she wrote enquiring about the new baby( My Aunty Maud) and it was was franked Ebbw Vale 1921.

J M

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My Nan was Ethel Maud Hughes and she was married to Arthur Charles Pugh.  The story in our family is that Arthur walked out on her, he suffered from malaria, caught during service in the First World War,his temper was short and they had disagreements Ethel was living at Ivy Cottage, Wootton at the time with her widowed grandmother, Ann Hughes, and her first child my Aunty Maud ( christened Harriet Rosa Maud) and another baby, my Aunty Dolly,( Dora Ivy- after Ivy Cottgae) on the way.  Years later, (no contact with Arthur Charles and none attempted, I think- no financial maintainance for the children either),   Ethel ( Hetty) married my step grandad, Gilbert Smith, a widower with six children.  It was originally a marriage of convenience, but they both grew to love each other My Nan and step grandad both died in 1968 and are buried in Whittington cemetery.

I would like to have known what happened to Arthur Charles Pugh, whether he ever returned home( Ebbw Vale) or went abroad.
J.M.