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« on: Wednesday 27 September 17 21:49 BST (UK) »
hello, I am trying to trace my friend's grandmother.  Her name was Margaret Courtney known as Peggy. We have been told she came from Killarney. She was born c1912. She married a Charles Saunders in Hastings, England in 1938. The only record we can find for her is her marriage, and the marriage certificate says her father was Francis Courtney. She had a daughter in 1945 and a son, in 1947. We do not know what happened to her after about 1951. Is anybody able to find any record? Many thanks

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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 27 September 17 22:36 BST (UK) »
A Margaret Saunders born 20.12.1912 died in 1992 in Sussex

If this is your friends grandmother - aren't her parents able to provide any information? 
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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 27 September 17 23:02 BST (UK) »
She married as Peggy,so one would presume she was known as that rather than Margaret.

Marriages Sep 1938   

Courtney    Peggy   to Saunders    Hastings    2b   77    
Saunders    Charles T   to  Courtney    Hastings    2b   77    
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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 27 September 17 23:07 BST (UK) »
A Margaret Saunders born 20.12.1912 died in 1992 in Sussex

If this is your friends grandmother - aren't her parents able to provide any information?

Thank you for that information. Unfortunately the only information my friend's Dad can tell us is his parents' names and that his mum left with his sister when he was 4 around 1951. He remained with his Dad. He thinks his mum was originally from Killarney.


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Re: Courtney
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 27 September 17 23:11 BST (UK) »
She married as Peggy,so one would presume she was known as that rather than Margaret.

Yes that's right, I think she was born Margaret but preferred to be called Peggy. That's the one, she married Charles Taylor Saunders

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Courtney    Peggy   to Saunders    Hastings    2b   77    
Saunders    Charles T   to  Courtney    Hastings    2b   77   

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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 27 September 17 23:17 BST (UK) »
There is no birth registration for a daughter in 1945
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 27 September 17 23:25 BST (UK) »
There is no birth registration for a daughter in 1945

I can't find her either. My friend's dad says she was 5 when he was born in 1947, that she was his half sister and took the Saunders name, but Peggy and Charles married in 1938

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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 27 September 17 23:34 BST (UK) »
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that she was his half sister

Given that Frances left with the daughter and not the son suggests that Charles was not her father.  If he was - he would surely have taken steps to find them.  Did Charles ever re-marry?  If he did - he must have either divorced Frances or had her declared dead

If the daughter was 5 when the son was born in 1947 - she was born around 1942 which was during WW2.  If Charles was serving in the war - Frances may have had an affair
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 27 September 17 23:43 BST (UK) »
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that she was his half sister

Given that Frances left with the daughter and not the son suggests that Charles was not her father.  If he was - he would surely have taken steps to find them.  Did Charles ever re-marry?  If he did - he must have either divorced Frances or had her declared dead.

I don't think Charles remarried.