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Australia Resources & Offers / Re: OFFER : NSW State Records Office - photos of probates and divorces
« on: Saturday 10 August 19 16:06 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much, Ros! I look forward to it. 
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Australia Resources & Offers / Re: OFFER : NSW State Records Office - photos of probates and divorces
« on: Saturday 10 August 19 13:17 BST (UK) »
Hi Ros,
Rootschat's 'Cupoflife' suggested that I ask you if you could supply me with an image of the divorce papers of Marjorie Emma Judd and Raymond Athelstane Judd #1032/1930.
This lady was my father's (Edwin Charles Simmonds) first wife - and it turns out the union (in London, UK) was probably bigamous. She seems to have led a string of besotted men a merry dance! She left him after only 7 months, and he had to wait seven years to marry my mother.
I'd be most grateful for any help you can give me.
Rootschat's 'Cupoflife' suggested that I ask you if you could supply me with an image of the divorce papers of Marjorie Emma Judd and Raymond Athelstane Judd #1032/1930.
This lady was my father's (Edwin Charles Simmonds) first wife - and it turns out the union (in London, UK) was probably bigamous. She seems to have led a string of besotted men a merry dance! She left him after only 7 months, and he had to wait seven years to marry my mother.
I'd be most grateful for any help you can give me.
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Australia / Re: Owen Robert Colverd
« on: Saturday 10 August 19 13:00 BST (UK) »
This is astonishing! I had Dad and Marjorie's 'marriage' year wrong - it was 1933 not 1931. But they married on June 1st 1933 - apparently well before Marjorie's Decree Nisi at the end of July!
Thank you so much for taking this trouble - I will certainly follow up on your suggestion to ask Ros if I can take a look at the divorce papers, as well as reading through the links you have so generously supplied.
Her mother also had a colourful history, first marrying a Harold George in 1904, but at some point he is gone from the scene and she gets wed to a Cuthbert Alvin Fisher apparently twice with one marriage to him recorded in Bombay in 1919, and a second recorded, to the same husband, in Calcutta in December 1930. When Dad visited her (and first met Marjorie) in Sydney in 1924 Marjorie's mother was definitely Addie Leigh Fisher (born Adeline Leigh Muckleston in Newcastle NSW.)
I shall press on with my researches! Thank you again.
Thank you so much for taking this trouble - I will certainly follow up on your suggestion to ask Ros if I can take a look at the divorce papers, as well as reading through the links you have so generously supplied.
Her mother also had a colourful history, first marrying a Harold George in 1904, but at some point he is gone from the scene and she gets wed to a Cuthbert Alvin Fisher apparently twice with one marriage to him recorded in Bombay in 1919, and a second recorded, to the same husband, in Calcutta in December 1930. When Dad visited her (and first met Marjorie) in Sydney in 1924 Marjorie's mother was definitely Addie Leigh Fisher (born Adeline Leigh Muckleston in Newcastle NSW.)
I shall press on with my researches! Thank you again.
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Australia / Re: Owen Robert Colverd
« on: Friday 09 August 19 15:59 BST (UK) »
Thank you! Most grateful.
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Australia / Re: Owen Robert Colverd
« on: Friday 09 August 19 14:09 BST (UK) »
Still can't find marjorie Emma marrying a Wallace. Maybe she took it as a 'stage name' and that's why both appear on her 1946 marriage certificate?
BTW - is 3/06/1946 June 3rd or March 6th???
BTW - is 3/06/1946 June 3rd or March 6th???
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Australia / Re: Owen Robert Colverd
« on: Friday 09 August 19 13:32 BST (UK) »
Thank you very much to both of you who have responded to my query. The web link will be very useful, and now I have not only the wedding date but the possibility that my Dad's first wife was even more of serial marrier than I realised! 'Wallace' hadn't appeared yet in any of the records I had accessed so far.
Marjorie Judd, divorcee, married my father Edwin Charles Simmonds in 1931 in the UK, but deserted him after only seven months. He always said she 'ran off to be an actress' and used the stage name 'Marjorie (or Margery?) D'Or (rather than Daw.) I can't find anything about this. Now I need to chase the Wallace connection!
Dad had to wait seven years of course before he could apply for a divorce; this came through in January 1941 and he and his second Marjorie (nee Gowan), my mother, married on January 22nd 1941. I arrived two years later. It amuses me that Ancestry refers to Marjorie No.1 as my stepmother when I wasn't even a twinkle in Dad's eye.
Marjorie Judd, divorcee, married my father Edwin Charles Simmonds in 1931 in the UK, but deserted him after only seven months. He always said she 'ran off to be an actress' and used the stage name 'Marjorie (or Margery?) D'Or (rather than Daw.) I can't find anything about this. Now I need to chase the Wallace connection!
Dad had to wait seven years of course before he could apply for a divorce; this came through in January 1941 and he and his second Marjorie (nee Gowan), my mother, married on January 22nd 1941. I arrived two years later. It amuses me that Ancestry refers to Marjorie No.1 as my stepmother when I wasn't even a twinkle in Dad's eye.
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Australia / Owen Robert Colverd
« on: Friday 09 August 19 01:10 BST (UK) »
I am trying to find the date of Owen Robert Colverd's marriage to Marjorie (nee George; then Judd; then Simmonds) in about 1946, probably in New South Wales. He was born in 1892, she in 1905. can anyone help, please?