Dorothy Maud Jones

[keyboard86]

An Albert Edward Jones married possibly a Gertrude Clayton Dec qtr 1905 Billericay 4a 989
Keyboard86
So is this Gerties marriage?

[lizdb]

I think you need the birth cert.

Very unusual (impossible?) to be registered with a third persons surname, neither mother nor father.

You will see who registered the birth too.

If it is the Jones/Clayton birth then it wasn't West Ham where she was born.


The birth cert should make it clearer what her parentage was.

[keyboard86]

OK with help from a tree on Ancestry, Gertude Lily Jones nee Clayton did indeed marry Albert Edward Jones, sons Albert Edward 1906 Brentwood/Leonard Cyril 1909 Aldershot/Sydney Ernest 1911 Valetta/Archie F Valetta
Albert Edward snr died 1915 France & Flanders, Gertrude L 1959 Brentwood.
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[lizdb]

So - if we are on the right lines, it looks as if Dorothy Maud was most likely to be Gertrude's, who must have had a fling with someone after the death of Albert.


If sister Dorothy Kate had married Lowe in 1915, she would be Dorothy Lowe, and  if Dorothy Maud was her child then she would have been registered as Lowe with mmn Clayton, or if Dorothy Kate had reverted to her maiden name for any reason, then as Dorothy Maid Clayton. 

The birth cert will clarify though. Seems like the Billericay one is correct (that covers Brentwood area where Gertrude obviously was)

My money is on her being Gertrude's child!

[sallygray]

Thanks for that. I think she was Gertrude's child--it may have been "convenient" to let the belief grow that she was her sister's from her failed marriage!

[keyboard86]

Hi where was Dorothy Kate b c 1896 in 1939, in fact both her and Gertrude/Gertie b c 1886?


When/where did Dorothy K die?


Dorothy appears to have had only one child a Violet D P Lowe in 1915 died very young.
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[lizdb]

Hi where was Dorothy Kate b c 1896 in 1939, in fact both her and Gertrude/Gertie b

Gertie is living with the Woolener family incl future hubby.