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Thank you all who assisted me on this.  I now have them all "grafted" onto my tree and hopefully, at some later date, DNA will confirm the facts and then I may find some "step/half siblings" (or whatever they are).


Richard

That I never considered !!!
Food for thought there.

But I still need to identify Cyril’s family (and tree) to try a DNA approach.  If this was an ancient member of my tree I would most likely leave it as another “wall”.  But this is a Step Father and any other children he had are my 1/2 siblings.

If Sheila lied on her marriage cert then the only way I can see to prove (or not) is to find Cyril. If he died in the war then she told the truth. If he lived then she may have told a “porky pie”, and even been married to 2 men at once.
(Sounds like a movie plot)

Richard

Sheila was my mother and she married my father ( Fredrick William Schoch) in 1947.  She had a complicated life ..3 husbands, 6 children to the 3 men. 
She had her 1st son Micheal John Francis in 1943.  So obviously I am trying to find out what happened to her 1st husband Cyril.  She never spoke of him but implied that he was killed in WW11, hence this post.
While I have now added more family members I still have no idea where Cyril went.  Strange I can trace some branches of my tree to the 1700’s but can not solve this one.

Thanks Cas,

Yes I saw that name (Walter Montrose) before but not the mmn of Mackenzie.  So it looks as John Percival and his wife had at least 3 children, one of whom died before the 1911 census, and Cyril born later that year.
Filling in the family nicely now thanks to everyone's help.
Just need to find death details for Cyril, but that is a very common combination of names so the search is slow I think.



Richard

Well the digital copy of the wedding cert has arrived.

Confirmed Cyril Edward Francis (Corporal), 30yrs, married Sheila Elizabeth Gibson (18) 1 May 1941.
His father was John Percival Francis (Hotel Porter).

They were both posted at an RAF base at St Athan. (near Cardiff, Wales.) Also if he held the rank of Corporal then he was not in the Royal Artillery as he would have been a Bombadier.

So more "digging" ahead to identify his death date.


Thanks for the guidance.


Richard