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Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON help required!!
« on: Sunday 28 August 16 12:29 BST (UK) »
Hello

I am hoping someone somewhere will be able to help me with my BOLLINGTON research as I have drawn a complete blank.  All I know is that there was a family "feud" and an illegitimate child so can't progress anywhere.

My great grandmother is Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON, born Kensington in 1888 to Richard & Annie BOLLINGTON.  She had a sister Amy and brother Richard, but this is all I know. 

The family story is that Edith married a first cousin also called BOLLINGTON who died whilst Edith was pregnant, but this appears to be a cover story to cover up the illegtimate birth of my grandmother Joan BOLLINGTON (became Metcalf) as no father on her birth certificate although this was covered up all her life!!  My grandmother Joan METCALF only was aware of Edith's brother and sister near the end of Edith's life when Richard died in 1970 in Islington.  There appears to have been a falling out when Edith became pregnant and she never spoke to her family again until years passed.  However, it is odd as someone was paying my grandmother's school fees and Edith lived in Notting Hill on her own with Joan until she re-married Edward R SMITH in 1946.

If anyone can help that would be fantastic, have hit an absolute blank for now many years, reignited this weekend as Ancestry.co.uk free!!

Look forward to any responses,
Liz

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Re: Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON help required!!
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 28 August 16 12:45 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat, Liz

I have read the story here, but I can't tell what it is you would like help in finding.

Could you confirm that all folk named are deceased, please?

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Re: Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON help required!!
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 28 August 16 12:52 BST (UK) »
Hi

Welcome to rootschat

Have you looked at the 1939 register for Edith, the free preview shows that she is in the same household as Edward R Smith and 2 others.  Playing with the index shows that Helen Smith is one of the others.  They are in the Ealing area.  I doubt that this record will help with your search though  ;)
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Re: Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON help required!!
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 28 August 16 12:52 BST (UK) »
Hi Liz , welcome to RC  :)

From the 1939 Register free index is Edith Smith(Bollington) living with Edward R Smith in Ealing ?
Wonder why they waited until 1946 to get married ?



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Re: Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON help required!!
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 28 August 16 12:53 BST (UK) »
Welcome, Liz

What was Edith's marital status said to be when she married Edward Smith in 1946?

If Joan was illegitimate (I can't see an earlier marriage either) then is likely to be impossible to establish her paternity, unfortunately.
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Re: Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON help required!!
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 28 August 16 12:58 BST (UK) »
Joans birth in Eastbourne, 1919?
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Re: Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON help required!!
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 28 August 16 13:02 BST (UK) »
And playing with the FindMyPast index reveals that Edward was married in 1939, while Edith was listed as Single
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Re: Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON help required!!
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 28 August 16 13:03 BST (UK) »
In 1939 Edward R Smith is listed as married and Edith as single, although using Smith as a surname.
Maybe the scandal of living openly with a married man contributed to the family rift?

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Re: Edith Ellen BOLLINGTON help required!!
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 28 August 16 13:10 BST (UK) »
Playing with the index shows that Helen Smith is one of the others

Could she be the reason they were not married  ::)
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