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Re: Help finding both people in a Harrogate marriage
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 12 July 18 16:32 BST (UK) »
Sorry I only just noticed.....

Bride: Doris Maughan, otherwise Taylor

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Re: Help finding both people in a Harrogate marriage
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 12 July 18 16:41 BST (UK) »

Frances I BAKER, Birth in the Registration DISTRICT of Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland in the September Quarter 1935.


This girl can be found in 1939 and is a different family.

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Re: Help finding both people in a Harrogate marriage
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 12 July 18 16:59 BST (UK) »
I have a definite birth date for the Leslie Baker born in 1911 (24 Jul),

Try 24 Jul 1906.

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Re: Help finding both people in a Harrogate marriage
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 12 July 18 17:18 BST (UK) »
Now, this birth is slightly after the 1911 census, but Gladys is easily found as living, unmarried, with her parents, her father being a Charles H Baker, a bricklayer. This Charles H Baker is also the only Charles Baker who has died in the Knaresborough district by 1929

I believe you will find Dorothy living with members of this family in 1939.  Presumedly she died before 1991 or someone has had her record opened.

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Re: Help finding both people in a Harrogate marriage
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 12 July 18 23:32 BST (UK) »
Now, this birth is slightly after the 1911 census, but Gladys is easily found as living, unmarried, with her parents, her father being a Charles H Baker, a bricklayer. This Charles H Baker is also the only Charles Baker who has died in the Knaresborough district by 1929

I believe you will find Dorothy living with members of this family in 1939.  Presumedly she died before 1991 or someone has had her record opened.

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Yes, thank you! That's definitely her. I'm not sure why I didn't check the 1939 register for her, but that is her birth date and Winchester was her married name. In 1939 she's living with her father's maternal uncle (the son of Charles Holliday Baker and Sarah Smith), assuming her father is indeed the Leslie Baker born in 1911, which at this point it's pretty obvious that he is.

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Re: Help finding both people in a Harrogate marriage
« Reply #14 on: Friday 13 July 18 03:28 BST (UK) »

Married: 5th April 1927
District: Knaresborough
Groom: Leslie Baker
Groom's age: 22
Condition: Bachelor
Profession: Motor Mechanic
Residence: 97 Valley Drive, Harrogate
Groom's Father: Charles Baker (deceased)
Groom's Father's Profession: Builder

Bride: Doris Maughan, otherwise Taylor
Age: 22
Condition: Spinster
Profession: Waitress
Residence: 25 Burke Street, Harrogate
Father: None stated
Father's Profession: None stated

People Present: Samuel Stanley North and Alan Mais (?)


Were they married in 1927 or 1929?

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Re: Help finding both people in a Harrogate marriage
« Reply #15 on: Friday 13 July 18 03:30 BST (UK) »

Try 24 Jul 1906.

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Should be.... try 24 July 1906 in 1939.

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Re: Help finding both people in a Harrogate marriage
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 15 July 18 00:47 BST (UK) »

Married: 5th April 1927
District: Knaresborough
Groom: Leslie Baker
Groom's age: 22
Condition: Bachelor
Profession: Motor Mechanic
Residence: 97 Valley Drive, Harrogate
Groom's Father: Charles Baker (deceased)
Groom's Father's Profession: Builder

Bride: Doris Maughan, otherwise Taylor
Age: 22
Condition: Spinster
Profession: Waitress
Residence: 25 Burke Street, Harrogate
Father: None stated
Father's Profession: None stated

People Present: Samuel Stanley North and Alan Mais (?)


Were they married in 1927 or 1929?

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1929. Not sure why I said 1927.

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Re: Help finding both people in a Harrogate marriage
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 15 July 18 03:03 BST (UK) »
I have a definite birth date for the Leslie Baker born in 1911 (24 Jul),

Try 24 Jul 1906.

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Found him. He's living in Haltemprice, East Yorkshire with an inferred spouse named Margaret. The birth date and occupation match up, so I'm 99% sure it's him. I'm not sure why he continued with the false age. I don't see how the 1911 Leslie Baker could have been someone else, though, unless they were both from the same family anyway. A very confusing bunch.

Charles Holliday Baker himself is a little confusing, since he was born Charles Baker Holliday and he stayed that way for the first couple of censuses, presumably because his parents married shortly after he was born (even though they were both his biological parents).