Hello Everyone,
I'm hoping someone out there will be able to help me with a mystery in my family tree. I'm hoping to find out some things about my great Grandmother. I'm mostly hoping someone can point me to a birth record for her, or a marriage record. Any other information would be wonderful!
I know for certain.1. She went by the first name Gertrude and came from Ireland.
2. According to her children's birth records, her maiden name was Connolly.
3. She had a relationship with my Great Grandfather, Robert Edmund Wheldale, born April 1905 in Hull, died March 1987 in Hull.
4. She had four children with my Great Grandfather. They are
Winifred (who was born in Ireland)
Robert E (1929 in Hull)
a boy(1936 in Hull)
a girl (1942 in Hull)
5. At some point in the 1930s, her mother came to live with her in Hull and died there.
I surmise but don't know for certain/have been told by family members.1. She was probably illegitimate.
2. I am told her father was either a German man or an Italian man (not massively helpful)
3. She probably married Robert Edmund Wheldale in Ireland.
4. According to her death record she was born 12 July 1902. However I was told by a family member she was born 23 June 1901 in Newcastle in Ireland. Another record suggests she may have been born in Galway.
5. She is supposed to have had a sister called Ruby.
6. There was a legal battle over a farm. Gertrude or her mother had to sell the farm to pay the legal fees (I presume this means they won the case or it wouldn't have been theirs to sell).
I don't know1. What her mother was called.
I have not been able to get any further then this and it's driving me mad. I can't even request a birth or marriage certificate for her to confirm any details because I wouldn't know where to start.
Thank you for reading.
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