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Suffolk / Re: The Strange Great Grandfather
« on: Saturday 08 July 17 22:04 BST (UK)  »
Answers to your requests for more info.....

There reason for separating was 'an oral agreement for separation by mutual consent'.

There was an older child John Henry Swan, named after Stella's father.

(Stella Ellaline Addison had a daughter also named Stella Ellaline - she married in 1945 to a Mr Bishop)

I cannot find records for any re-marriage.

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Suffolk / The Strange Great Grandfather
« on: Saturday 08 July 17 20:58 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for information on how to locate the birth father of my grandmother Freda Swan born 29th Apr 1931.

Her birth certificate names her mothers husband as the father (Reginald James Arthur Swan), however in his divorce petition of 1939 (after emigrating to New Zealand in 1932) he states:-

The petitioner further says that there was to his said wife the following children, namely Stella Ellaline Swan born on the 4th day of August 1926, and subsequent to the agreement to separate mentioned in Paragraph 3 hereof, Freda Swan born on the 29th. day of April 1931, and Richard Thomas Swan born on the 10th. day of December 1932, and that such children are not the issue of the marriage of the Petitioner with his wife.

The divorce was Decree Nisi and as far as I am aware, it was also uncontested. This suggests that Stella Ellaline Swan nee Addison accepted that the children were not her husbands.

If anybody could give me a hand with working out who the father is it would be appreciated.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Reginald James Arthur Swan - A big puzzle!
« on: Sunday 25 October 15 13:06 GMT (UK)  »
Reginald was born in the UK on 29/10/1903 and soon joined the British Royal Navy.

After being on loan to the New Zealand Navy, he was discharged in New Zealand.

I know that he married Laura Joan Savage in about 1937 and died in August 1985. I have attached his death record.

I would like to know whatever anybody has on Reginald. He is my great-grandfather from his first wife Stella Addison - though we have no records of a divorce.

I also know that in March 1949, Laura and a 'Ronald Swan' came to the UK. However in September 1949, Laura and 'Reginald' Swan returned to New Zealand.

Another thing that is puzzling me is that my grandmothers marriage certificate from December 1950 was signed by a R J Swan - though there is no record he was in the country.

Also, what did he do during WWII?

Really hope somebody has some more information.

Thank you

Jessica

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