Missing person Vera Harrison

[Towdlass]

My fathers sister seemed to disappear just after WW2. The last address we have for her was in 1947 166, Hurst Grove, Queens Park, Bedford. My father went to The Salvation Army to ask for their help but without any luck. No one in the family ever heard from her again. Her name was Vera Harrison and she was born in 1919 in Sheffield. I was just wondering if there might be someone who can give me some idea on how I would go about trying to find out what happened to her? Perhaps she remarried and had a family. Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.

[CaroleW]

Do you have her full birthdate?  With that info you could search deaths for Vera with that birthdate and match her surname at death to a marriage?

Also - any 1939 entry may show a married name for her

EDIT

Notice you say “perhaps she remarried”  If so - who did she marry & when & what was her maiden name?  Presume she was married by 1947?

[Jool]

I assume this was the reason for Vera's disappearance.

[CaroleW]

Excellent find Jool so Harrison was her married name but there is a Vera Harrison birth in 1919 in Sheffield

[Jool]

Is this the marriage?

Marriages Dec 1939 Sheffield 9c 1645
Harrison    Nicholas    Owen   
Owen    Vera            Harrison   

[Jool]

Towdlass, do you have access to the 1939 Register? 

I can see Vera, with a note of her later married name to Harrison - then another married name.
Unfortunately we cannot post the details on Rootschat. 

[louisa maud]

Vera Owen 1920 Sheffield  MMN Burton

Louisa Maud

[Jool]

Probable Birth:
Vera Owen MMN Banks (see Towdlass' surname list under her post)
Sept Q 1918
Ecclesall B  9c 807

[Mabel Bagshawe]

I'm slightly suspicious of the 1920 birth beingthe right one, as the first married surname isn't recorded on the 1939 register for her, and the surname that is shown fits a marriage in 1941, before the divorce notice