« Reply #9 on: Monday 24 August 20 12:52 BST (UK) »
Thanks rosie99 for posting what I'd already found on marriage locator. I could have given chapter and verse in my original post but I know that people tend to switch off after the first paragraph or get sidetracked, so I've learned not to do that.
The Horsham area is not well-served by 20th century online records. I have drawn a blank with the usual resources - familysearch, marriage locator, FindMyPast, Ancestry, freereg, freeBMD, historical directories, mySoG. I've not managed to check newspapers because I don't have a sub to the BNA and my FindMyPast sub has just expired, if someone fancies trying that for me do be my guest. But anyway, asking for a look-up was a last resort. It's not desperately urgent and can wait till we have a vaccine if that's what it takes. Or until one of the subscription sites does a deal with West Sussex record office. Just dotting the Is and crossing the Ts.
For the record, and to demonstrate that I am able to think laterally and put in the work, I found Alice on the 1939 register using just her birthdate and first name. The last I'd known of her previously was that she was widowed as a fairly young bride, apparently childless, in WW1. I imagined that she might have remarried but with a surname of SMITH I didn't hold out a lot of hope of finding her. I was thankful that she wasn't a Mary or an Elizabeth! I wasn't expecting to find her in Horsham but I'd chased through her siblings and the widower of one of her sisters is listed at the same address. I then discovered that although she didn't marry again till 1935, she was producing children in the meantime and regarded as Mrs WIBLING. "Husband" Jesse had another wife (or two) elsewhere in the country, and his own lineage has turned out to be shrouded in mystery. I'm fairly confident that the woman I'm enquiring about is "my" Alice but having her father's name would confirm it.
Jane :-)
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COLLASON,COLLYER,CORKERY
DARLING, DENYER,DICKERSON,DOLLING,DURBAN
FARMER,FURNELL
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