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Re: Looking for an elusive Marriage in Stoke on Trent around 1915-1920
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 17 June 18 19:13 BST (UK) »
Ooooooooo….. thank you so much rosie99!!!
So there was a tangled web there as the family thought!  George H Yorke (b1920) was my friend's grandfather - who never talked about his parents or brother and there was a suggestion that he might have grown up with his grandparents, so this might be the reason.
I have some digging to do but thank you so much for your lateral thinking on this!
very much appreciated :):):)
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Re: Looking for an elusive Marriage in Stoke on Trent around 1915-1920
« Reply #10 on: Monday 18 June 18 07:31 BST (UK) »
She married again June qtr 1959
BRIDGWOOD    Mary L    (SHENTON)   
SHENTON    William C    BRIDGWOOD

Mary Lizzie Shenton
Birth   03/01/1893
Death 04/1984
Stoke On Trent Staffordshire

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Re: Looking for an elusive Marriage in Stoke on Trent around 1915-1920
« Reply #11 on: Monday 18 June 18 08:53 BST (UK) »
Thanks rosie99!  She was keen on this marrying lark wasn't she!!
Thanks to you, I've gone some way to solving the mystery. Mary Lizzie was 20 when she married 18 year old Bernard Parratt and their first son (also Bernard) was born not long after, followed by a daughter Alice the next year(1914)
I found Bernard's discharge papers from the North Staffs Regiment dated July 1919.  Son George Parratt(aka Yorke) was born in January 1920.  Unless Bernard came home on leave before he was discharged, then he can't have been the father of George, which might account for the two surnames being registered.

I then found Bernard on the Canadian Passenger list - he arrived at Port St John 16 days after his 'son' George Parratt/Yorke was born in Stoke.    Bernard's widowed mother and two of his sisters had emigrated to Canada in 1913.

Back in Stoke, Mary Lizzie had a second child who was registered with two surnames - Richard, born in 1921 died as an infant.  A fourth child, Irene was born in 1924 - she bore the Parratt surname.

Mary Lizzie went on to marry George Bridgwood in 1928 and then (as you've found today) William Shenton in 1959 and died aged 91.

So, it looks like Mary Lizzie had a fling whilst husband Bernard was away at the end of WWI, he came back, found her to be pregnant and so left to join his mother & sisters in Canada.

I still don't know who the mysterious Mr Yorke was, and I know that nowadays you can have a father's name on a birth certificate without being married, but I'm not sure when the rule about having to be married before a name could be added was changed?
I also haven't figured why the daughter Irene Parratt, born in 1924 is simply registered with the surname Parratt.

Still some mysteries to solve!!

Thanks again for your help :)
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Re: Looking for an elusive Marriage in Stoke on Trent around 1915-1920
« Reply #12 on: Monday 18 June 18 09:20 BST (UK) »
Irene was not just registered as Parratt  ;D

Birth March qtr 1924   
Bridgwood    Irene    mmn Grice    Stoke T.    6b   416    
Parratt    Irene    mmn Grice    Stoke T.    6b   416

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Re: Looking for an elusive Marriage in Stoke on Trent around 1915-1920
« Reply #13 on: Monday 18 June 18 09:25 BST (UK) »
If the father was present when the birth was registered then his name could be added.

She probably went to register the birth 1921/22 births with Mr Yorke but she would have had to put her name as Parratt nee Grice, hence the assortment of names
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Re: Looking for an elusive Marriage in Stoke on Trent around 1915-1920
« Reply #14 on: Monday 18 June 18 11:04 BST (UK) »
If the father was present when the birth was registered then his name could be added.

She probably went to register the birth 1921/22 births with Mr Yorke but she would have had to put her name as Parratt nee Grice, hence the assortment of names

If you get the birth certificate it will no doubt state Mr. Yorke's full name and occupation.

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Re: Looking for an elusive Marriage in Stoke on Trent around 1915-1920
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 05 January 19 19:28 GMT (UK) »
Hi my grandmother was Mary lizzie grice she married a Bernard parrot had two children Bernard and Alice I believe  she often told me she had a son called George Henry York who made contact with her before she passed away she also had Irene bridgwood and my dad Leonard bridgwood

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Re: Looking for an elusive Marriage in Stoke on Trent around 1915-1920
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 05 January 19 19:55 GMT (UK) »
I maybe I can help you Mary lizzie grice was my grandmother

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Re: Looking for an elusive Marriage in Stoke on Trent around 1915-1920
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 05 January 19 23:02 GMT (UK) »
George Henry Yorke was the one Rosie mentioned way back  born 1920 Mother's maiden name Brice

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