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Aah. So many users, but all roads lead to Portadown in the end... My original posting here about the Martins of Portadown was a great help in fleshing out the family tree. The Lurgan Ancestry posting also gave a lot of information - thank you. I was then able to get a lot of additional detail about the family in Portadown through the Find My Past newspaper archive. We've also been able to trace in detail the descendants of one of the family members who emigrated to the US. It's just Patrick M. who stubbornly refuses to yield up clues as to his life in the UK, and the fate of his wife and child in Portadown. He's the one I'm focussing on now.

FYI: The Martin family tree is set to public on ancestry.

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Thank you for the reminder - I've removed the images. Regarding the entry Q3 1974 Coventry v.33 p.287 DOB 13NO1909: I had discounted it because Patrick did not have any other first name than Patrick: https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1910/01586/1638285.pdf .
There is also no record of any relative with the name "Peter". But, I will add this record as a possible candidate when I contact the Warwickshire registry office. Hopefully it's just an admin error.
Thanks

Thank you for the feedback. Unfortunately, the data doesn't match up. I checked the Portadown Ladies Hockey Club FB page. Her husband is Matthew, and she celebrated her 85th in 2022, meaning she was born in 1937, making her 15 in 1952.

Hi everyone,

I am trying to determine if WINNIE CALLAGHAN (born 1922 in Darwen, Lancashire, named as Winifred in the 1939 Register) was married to a (Polish?) man name KOSTYNSKI. The original 1939 surname entry was CALLAGHAN. A second entry KOSTYNSKI was added later in green. There is a final entry CALLAGHAN, also in green, and KOSTYNSKI was crossed out. Two dates are given: 24.11.60 and 12.12.61, prefaced by a single “CR283”. (CR283 is a form that was used when there was a Change of Surname, Forename, or Date of Birth.) The entries suggest a name change due to marriage (Callaghan --> Kostynski --> Callaghan) and that the marriage held for just over a year. See the attachment.

However, I have not been able to find any marriage record that confirms that a marriage took place. I am wondering if the marriage was annulled (a divorce in that short space of time seems unlikely).  In that case, is the original marriage record then deleted, i.e. as a result of the marriage being deemed never to have taken place?

Winnie was Roman Catholic. She later moved to Bolton, where she died in 1994. She was living in 6 Back Foundry Street, Bolton, at the time of the 1939 Register.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!

BTW: Gottberg means "God Mountain" or "God's Mountain". As that area is notoriously flat, this may be an example of 19th century German humour. Good luck.