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Hi

Margaret Finlay was born in York, England late 1907, but was brought up in Northumberland, England.

Daughter of Joseph Finlay (1875-1957) and Jane Richardson (1874-1936).

I can't seem to find her after the 1921 England Census where she is living with her parents and siblings in Morpeth, Northumberland, England.

There are no marriages in the UK that fit and no obvious death.

She doesn't seem to be on the 1939 Register.

Ancestry and FamilySearch have a marriage in Elgin, Jamaica 8th June 1932 of a Margaret Finlay, born about 1907 (daughter of Joseph Finlay) to a Jabez Samuel Daley (son of John Finlay and Catherine Daley - not sure why he has his mother's surname).

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVS5-CBQZ

Can anybody please tell me if this is my Margaret Finlay?

I can't find any other records of either Margaret Finlay (Daley) or her husband (no emigration or deaths, or any children) in any country.

Can anybody please help?

Thanks.

Hi

I'm trying to find the death details of William Robert Thorpe (born Norfolk, England 29th March 1912).

He married in Peterborough in 1935 to Hilda May McDonald and had 5 children.

He left her and had children to a married woman Joan West (married name Werninck).

The youngest child was born in 1960 and said his dad died in Peterborough when he was about 4.

But there is no record of his death, burial or obituary in Northamptonshire in the 1960's.

Some family tree's online have him dying in Norfolk in 1967, but his son says that's not him as he died when he was there in Peterborough, and he definitely wasn't as old as 7.

Can anybody please find a record of death for William Robert Thorpe in Peterborough approximately 1964?

Thanks.

Hi Girl Guide

Thanks for looking.

I'm not too sure.

Shoreham is about 65 miles from Ramsgate.

Thanks again.

Hi

My ancestor, Louisa Stupples was born in Ramsgate, Kent, England in 1855.

She was the daughter of George Stupples (1823-1881) and Jemima Butler (1825-1881).

In 1880, Louisa married William Harman (1859-1936).

They had a daughter, Elizabeth Louisa Harman (1880-1953) - born in St Lawrence, Kent, England.

This is the family in the 1881 census in Ramsgate, living with Louisa's parents (George and Jemima Stupples):

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/7572/images/KENRG11_987_990-0458?pId=8484733

In 1891, William Harman is living in Islington, London, England with his "wife" Annie Harman, and his children:
Elizabeth Harman (aged 10);
Beatrice Harman (aged 2);
William Harman (aged 11 months):

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/6598/images/LNDRG12_166_169-0129?pId=7993700

Going off the GRO index, Beatrice and William Harman's mother's maiden surname was Maskell.

The marriage of William Harman and Annie Elizabeth Maskell doesn't seem to happen until 1920.

I thought initially that Louisa Harman (Stupples) must have died between 1881 and 1889 (the birth of Beatrice Harman), but there are no deaths or burials for her in England.

There is one Louisa Harman died in Kent in 1883 (aged 69), which I thought may have been a mis-print of the age, but I've found her probate record and it states she was a widow from Canada now living in Kent.

And there is a burial for a Louisa Harman-Fisher in Brompton Cemetery (London) in 1885 (death age recorded as 31), which I thought must have been her which I added to Findagrave.

However, someone has since uploaded her grave photo and the inscription gives her parents which are completely different to George and Jemima Stupples, so that is incorrect.

I'm now thinking that William Harman and Louisa seperated, and he lived with Annie Maskell, but couldn't marry her until 1920 due to bigamy laws?

But where is Louisa Harman (Stupples) after 1881?

Can anybody please help?

Thanks.

Darin.