Beatrice Digby and Mabel Digby

[nicdigby]

Thank you Rosie. Do you tend to use Find My Past or Ancestry - do you have a preference? Does FindMyPast have a subscription as well?

I wonder how I am going to find either of Mabel's marriage records. 

Mabel and Jack died within three days of one another, the gravestone says. Can you advise what is the best way to find out if they died in an accident etc? The gravestone is in Texas.

[rosie99]

I have access to both Ancestry & FindMyPast, they are both subscription sites.  It really depends where your research is as to which is best for you.

To find Mabels or Beatrices marriage if they were in England then they should show on the GRO index/freebmd.  It is doubtful that if found the image would appear on any of the subscription sites as they would have been after 1930 when they appear on electoral registers as Digby. 

[Mabel Bagshawe]

My aunt has now recalled Beatrice married Stan Lacy and they had three boys, Peter, Colin and John. Does this help to find her? She can’t be the West Ham Beatrice and I don’t think she can be the Beatrice who died in Colchester in 1982 unless she changed her name back to her maiden name as she is listed as Digby in the death records.

Details found of children which fit names and location  - won;t put too much as they may still be alive but births are between 1936 & 1946, which may narrow down marriage windows

[nicdigby]

Thank you, that’s been helpful, just found them

[jonw65]

Could you not have looked at  Reply #15 ?
Then you would have had the death of Beatrice Lacey, plus a note about the birth of her son in 1936 being indexed under both Digby and Lacey?

[Mabel Bagshawe]

sorry - sometimes when you are reading through four pages of posts you don;t notice or retain every detail

[jonw65]

Hi Mabel
Please don't worry about it.
I was just wondering if nic had missed the post? I kept it deliberately brief, perhaps too much so!
But never mind, the missing ladies are sorted now
John

[nicdigby]

Could you not have looked at  Reply #15 ?
Then you would have had the death of Beatrice Lacey, plus a note about the birth of her son in 1936 being indexed under both Digby and Lacey?

Thank you, yes I did very much look at reply 15 and used that info in my own attempts. Bear with me please, I am new to this.

[nicdigby]

I still cannot find either of Mabel's marriage records which I would love to do. Can anyone help? She was born Mabel Digby dob 26 July 1906 (although some records show it on another day close to that). She was at Peasbody buildings in 1911. Her father was Walter Digby b 1870 and her mother Helen Pidgeon Howlett.

I don't know much about husband number one other than he was Jewish, rich and lived in London.

Husband number two was John "Jack" Garrett, a Texan. They were married by Nov 1951 as she travelled alone under Mabel Garrett to New York and back (prior to emigrating to Fort Worth, Texas).] On her gravestone they spell her name Maybell and she always went by "Auntie May" to the family.

I'd also love to know what caused her and Jack to die only three days apart, in July 1988.

Can anyone help, and also let me know how to do it so that I learn!