Hi all while usually I am posting about my ancestors, last week I was with my friend who runs our community library in London and she mentioned in passing that she had never seen a photograph of her father.
I said that as I am used to digging around I would see if I might be able to find anything. Well amazingly I was able to make contact with a cousin of her father and yesterday she received an email with a photograph. It was an amazing thing and I am delighted for her, especially as she does so much in our community.
Now though, I am moving on to see if I can try and find out some more about her family. This relates to the fact he had a first wife and was said by her to have had a daughter. We have no name of the daughter who would be my friend's elder sister and I am trying to see if this was indeed true.
We have the marriage certificate which took place in The Register Office, Pontypridd on 28th May 1948. This was between William Cowie Dunbar, a 22 year old Aero Fitter, and Dorothy Dunn, a 17 year old Factory Typist.
Her father was James Arthur Dunn, a general labourer. The witnesses were Walter P. Gay and Elizabeth F. Gay.
Now I know that William and Dorothy divorced as on his second marriage in 1953 it states marriage dissolved.
But I can't find a birth for a person with the name Dunbar and maiden name Dunn between 1948 and 1953 and I can't trace Dorothy's birth in Wales in c1930-1931 so I have no idea where she was born.
Has anyone therefore please got any ideas which might be helpful? If my friend has a half sister she would very much like to know. Her father died in 1955 when she was a baby and her mother when she was 16 so there are many gaps to try and fill in.
Many thanks,
Jon