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The Common Room / Re: Divorce after 1912
« on: Friday 21 February 14 12:32 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all for putting me right. I did not mean that Norah was a bad person. I was just trying to sort out in my mind what had happened. I do realize the stigma attached to having a child out of wedlock and a divorce, in the early 1900's.  My own sister had a son when she was in the WRAF and the child's father is not on the Birth Certificate. I did know who the father was but can't remember now so in many many years the father will not be known. My sister's son was later adopted by the man she married.

Maeabbie


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The Common Room / Re: Divorce after 1912
« on: Sunday 16 February 14 11:30 GMT (UK)  »
Hi KGarrard

Thanks your reply. I have replied to Stan in error. My message was meant for you.
Apologies
Maeabbie

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The Common Room / Re: Divorce after 1912
« on: Sunday 16 February 14 11:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Stan

It was Douglas Percy Harrison and Norah Brenda Wilson. They married in 1912 in Fulham Register Office. Daughter born in 1912. (Ethel Iris Harrison born 19/10/1912)

My friend's father was born 03/01/1919.

Divorce petitioned in 1919 by Douglas Percy Harrison. Norah must have fell pregnant in 1918.

I have Birth Cert for my friend's dad Lawrence Harrison but I feel sure she has lied on this. No father on Birth Certificate. She gives her name as Norah Brenda Emma Harrison formerly Green.  I am left puzzled but with her lying on her second marriage, saying she was a widow, I do believe the details given on the Birth Certificate are also a lie.

I have just registered with the National Archives so will see how to order details of the divorce.

Thanks your interest.
Maeabbie


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The Common Room / Re: Divorce after 1912
« on: Sunday 16 February 14 09:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Stan.  Very helpful. I found the divorce date of 1919.

I am helping my best friend look for information on her father and this information doesn't bode well.

The marriage in 1912 produced one daughter. Ethel Harrison born 1912.

My friend's father was born Jan 1919 with the name Lawrence Harrison but his birth certificate gives no father!  My friend says "he must have had a father" I have tried to explain that we may never know.

I think the mother must have been adept at telling "fibs" because it was she who said she was a widow at her second marriage in 1926.

I am enjoying helping my friend. I tell her it is just like one big detective story.

Thanks again for the link.
Maeabbie

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The Common Room / Re: Is Family History starting to sour?
« on: Sunday 16 February 14 08:38 GMT (UK)  »
I don't think family history is starting to sour but we all give it a rest from time to time and go back with added vigour. I have had lots of help from members on Rootschat which has been most helpful and I really appreciate it.

I am a member of Ancestry and what annoys me is when you link up with someone who has your immediate family on their tree and then you find out they have just added all the details on with absolutely no relevance to them. They have shared their brother's wife's family on their tree.  I thought they were related to my cousins and no connection whatsoever.

All the details on her tree are correct because I did the research!

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The Common Room / Divorce after 1912
« on: Sunday 16 February 14 08:20 GMT (UK)  »
Can someone please help me with how to find details of a divorce after 1912.

I do know the couple were divorced. The man on his second Marriage Certificate in 1928 states he was divorced and who from.

The spouse on her second marriage gives her status as "widow"  in 1926.  Would she not have had to produce evidence that she was a widow?

Puzzled
Maeabbie

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Oxfordshire / Lawrence Harrison Born 1919 New Cottages, Bladon, Oxfordshire
« on: Sunday 16 February 14 08:02 GMT (UK)  »
Where would this boy have gone to school please and where would the school admissions records be found.

Maeabbie

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Rutland / Re: Gee's in Rutland
« on: Friday 29 November 13 07:37 GMT (UK)  »
There were Gee's in Ridlington, Rutland where my husband lived as a child. Their father's name was Geoffrey Gee.
Children's names possibly Penny, Prunella, Wendy, Peter and Robin.
I think it was Pru Gee who appeared on TV at one stage.

I am no relation but wondered if you knew about this Gee family living in Ridlington in 1950's and 1960's

Regards
Maeabbie

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Tyrone / Re: Marriage in Cookstown of Elizabeth Mahaffey and Raymond DeWitt
« on: Monday 03 December 12 19:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks. Before I order a marriage certificate I need to get the correct details.  I think I will have to come over from England to visit GRONI.

Maeabbie

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