1st marriage puzzler

[cerip23]

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help. I'm researching Evans in ruthin/st. asaph and have a Robert evans marrying edith alice Roberts (nee blythin) in 1931 and living in st. asaph but this is his second marriage.

On his marriage certificate it says he is a widow so we know his first wife died but we don't know anything about her.....we have a certificate of marriage between a Robert henry evans and Beatrice Pritchard but this is wrong, we have also got a marriage to a keziah ann price, but this, we believe is also wrong.....

I have done a bit more digging and found a Robert evans marrying an Elizabeth Salisbury in Ruthin in 1916 but as I don't have the certificate, I can't confirm or rule-out this marriage. If anyone has this marriage or can do a marriage look-up for me, please feel free as I am puzzled, annoyed, brick-walled....please....any help would be greatfully accepted as myself and my cousin are going out of our minds.....

[Gadget]

Hi

I've just checked on the North Wales BMD and the 1916 marriage was a civil marriage (non- C of E/registry office)  so there is no way of checking this up other than getting the certificate.

Maybe an outside possibility of a newspaper report.

added - did he serve in WW1?

Gadget