William Albert BELLENGER (1862-1936) was born in South Cerny, Gloucestershire. It should be noted that like other members of his family, he sometimes changed his surname to BERRY, as well as using the normal variations of Bellenger.
In October 1881, he married Annie Jane HEWITT. He was 20 and a bachelor, working as a gardener. She was considerably older at 35 and was a widow. She gave her father's name as John COLBOURN, a farm bailiff.
The couple can be found together in 1891, 1901 and 1911, where her birth place is given as Hungerford, Berks.
Assuming her maiden name was COLBOURN, I have searched for her birth. The best I can come up with is a Jane COLBOURN born in 1841 in Hungerford [Q3 1841 Hungerford 6 178], which may or may not be her. If it is then she was lying about her age when she married, as she would have been 40 not 35. I have also searched for a baptism with no luck.
Given that she was called HEWITT when she married Albert, I searched for a HEWITT-COLBOURN marriage. The only one I could find was 1873, which may or may not be her [Q3 1873 Merthyr Tydfil 11a 660].
So I have no idea when she was born or where she was in 1851, 1861 and 1871.
I believe she died in 1912 in Wandsworth, though I have not yet acquired the death certificate to be sure [Q4 1912 Wandsworth 1d 724].
Anyway in June 1931, William re-married. His new wife was possibly a relative by marriage, as she was called Annie BELLENGER at the time of the marriage. She was aged 66 and a widow. Her father was William MUNDAY (deceased), a general labourer.
I know absolutely nothing about his second wife, as I can't find her in any records.
So in short I need lots of help.
