Looking for help finding information about Kathleen Alice PYMM (Croydon) born 1908/1909, my maternal grandmother. She married Thomas William ORAM in Croydon in 1938. He was 26 years her senior & he is classed as a widower on the marriage certificate (I have no details at all of his first wife, or whether there were children from that marriage) It also shows Kathleen's age as 30 years, so that's the only way I know she must have been born in either 1908 or 1909. Also her death certificate shows her age then as 46 in 1955, so that all marries up. She died at the Queens Hospital Queens road Croydon. She had 3 children, including Beryl (my mother, born 1933, now deceased)
Although I have searched for a birth record for her, there isn't anything at all. I did originally find someone with almost exactly the same name, who I did think was her to begin with, however, that person was born in 1904, in Nottingham, so too early, and upon further investigation, that same person died in infancy, therefore that line of enquiry was completely eliminated.
Everything I have found out leads me to the obvious conclusion she must have been an illegitimate birth: 1. No record of her birth under the surname of Pymm. 2. On her marriage certificate there is no details of her father at all, it is left blank.
I have been in contact with Croydon adoption services in the vague hope they may have some information about the possibility she was adopted, however, I have yet to hear anything back from them. Of course, they may not be able to help at all because of confidentiality, even after all these years?
That's about as much as I have found out so far, but face rather a brick wall not knowing what her birth surname was so I can't get any further.
Any help to broaden the picture would be great. Maybe i'm not thinking laterally enough?
Thank you
