« on: Sunday 22 April 18 00:17 BST (UK) »
Hi
I wonder if anyone could help me please.
The above was my great aunt.
She lived in Trent Park in the 1911 census with my great grandparents and family. She was born in Stalbridge in Dorset in 1902 and had a son called Leonard in 1934 in Hampstead, London.
All of my family said that Ada married and one day a lady knocked the door to say that she couldn't be married to the man she married as she was already married to him and he was a bigamist. My grandmother said this broke her heart and so when Leonard was born she registered him under her maiden name Brooks. The man went to prison and at the time this was reported in the News of the World and other papers. She never saw him again.
Ada died in Berkshire in 1989, never married or met another man again.
I cannot find a marriage for Ada, my mum and aunt thinks she married in London somewhere.
If the marriage was not valid as he was a bigamist would the marriage still be registered or not? Just wondered if that is why I can't find the marriage, but it is more difficult as Leonard did not have his father listed on his birth certificate.
Can anyone help me in finding this please?
Thank you.
Julie
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