Help Identifying Wife/Partner

[avm228]

An online tree (usual caveats apply) shows a Susannah Bradley born in Yorks on 5.2.1894.  She is said to have died in Leeds in 1983 which matches the timing of the Susannah Hoare death.

[groom]

My take on it is:

Susannah Bradley was living with Walter Smith and took his name, but didn't marry him, as he was still married. They had a son born 1936 who was registered as Smith. She either married after  Walter's death or she left him and took the name Hoare.

[avm228]

Birth reg for Susannah Bradley, Mar qtr 1894 Tadcaster - covers Barwick in Elmet which seems to have been her birthplace.

Suggest you check the inhabitants of the 1939 entry you've found for her mother Catherine Bradley.

[avm228]

According to the online tree, Susannah Bradley was the mother of Harry Desmond B Tolson born 1st March 1923 (birth reg Harry D B Tolson, mmn Bradley, Jun qtr 1923 Dewsbury).

Not sure where the Tolson surname comes from.

He died as Harry Desmond Tolson Smith in Pontefract district, Apr 2006.

[avm228]

Susannah Bradley married Harry Heward, Jun qtr 1915 Dewsbury.  He died in WW1, 21.09.1917.

Susannah Heward married Arthur Tolson, Mar qtr 1919 Dewsbury.

Susannah Tolson married Alec Hoare, Sep qtr 1969 Leeds.

[avm228]

Susannah had a son from her first marriage: Thomas Arthur Heward, born 8 Nov 1915.  He was married before the 1939 Register was taken, and appears to have died in Leeds in 1983.

[lillian66]

Wow....thanks for all your relpies guys.

Appears to solve the mystery of Susannah Hoare (Smith) but unfortunately means I am still no nearer tracing my great grandfather Walter Smith.  I was hoping her death certificate may have given me some clues.

Back to searching...

[groom]

Is the Walter (Walker)  Smith on the 1939 your Walter, or are you saying that you don't think he is now?

[lillian66]

I think it's my Walter as the date of birth fits but I'm no nearer finding his death or what happened to him after 1939.

Thanks