Searching for help on Margaret Walton

[Patricia Short]

Hi, we at a blank with research on my missing grandma Margaret Mable May Jones (birth surname Walton). My mom and her brothers were left behind when she walked out. Mom was told she had a Yorkshire accent. She married my grandpa in 1945, while they were in the army still. Margaret was a A.T.S

If anyone can help, as we can't find any birth records. But we do know her father was Arthur Stanley Walton.

[rosie99]

Hi

Welcome to rootschat 

Do you have the marriage certificate for your grandparents.  If you do what age does it give for Margaret and what was her fathers occupation.

Rosie

[Patricia Short]

Hi, thanks. Yes I do have their marriage certificate, on there it says her full name was Margaret Mabel Walton, age 21yrs when she married on 15/03/1945. Her occupation was a Spinster Private A.T.S No 210507. Her father was Arthur Stanley Walton, worked as a Coal Hewer.

[avm228]

Does it definitely say she was 21 at marriage, rather than "over 21"?

Who were the witnesses to the marriage?

[avm228]

An online tree has a Mabel Walton b 1924 to Arthur Stanley Walton & Lizzie Broadhead, marrying William Edward James Jones in Caerleon in 1945, and dying in Monmouth in 2005.

Take anything in other people's trees with a pinch of salt unless you can prove the details by your own research - especially here the death as Jones in Wales which does not look securely sourced.

[Patricia Short]

Hi both, avm you found the right marriage certificate. But we not sure if that's the right Mabel, as my grandma was Margaret.

Rosie all it says is Age 21. In the presence of G E Lloyd and S H Havard.

[Patricia Short]

My grandpa died in 1995 in Caerphilly.

[KGarrad]

Birth registration:

December qtr 1924
Doncaster district     vol 9c, page 1349

Walton, Mabel


2 sisters and a brother born 1926-1930 (can be found on www.freebmd.org.uk)


Parent's marriage, September qtr 1921
Doncaster district     vol 9c, page 1675

Walton, Arthur S
Broadhead, Lizzie

[Patricia Short]

KGarrad that's very interesting, it looks like she could of been born a Mabel then?? That's probably why we weren't finding Margaret Mabel Walton. It seems like we were looking at that name for yonks. Gonna have to find any living relatives for more possible clues.