Looking for info – Lucien Engels - Wandsworth.

[Iain...]

Good afternoon everyone…

I belong to a genealogy club in March-en-Famenne, Belgium, (French speaking south) and one of the members put out a request for a certain Lucien L. Engles.  Lucien married Wilhelmina B. Richel in ‘Oct-Nov-Dec’ 1916, Registration District Wandsworth. (Vol. N°1d, Page Number 1316) 

I don’t have a birth date or place for either of them, so I was unsuccessful with census and baptisms on Ancestry.  I was also absent for this meeting, so I was unable to get any hint concerning nationality.  The names do tend to relate to our side of the Channel.   

Can anyone help this person ?  Any information would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

…, Iain.

PS  I'm having computer problems.  But I will reply asp.     

[QueenoftheWest]

Hi,

There's a Lucien Engles born c.1877, who is boarding with the Willocks family in Manchester in 1901. He is described as a 'commercial clerk' from Philippeville, Belgium:

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1901&indiv=try&h=23155041

Queenie 

EDIT: Looks like a red herring - see post below.

[QueenoftheWest]

Have you seen this?

https://gw.geneanet.org/bruxellois?lang=en&pz=alain&nz=dedecker&p=lucien+louis&n=engels

I think this could be very helpful, even if some of it is inaccurate.

Queenie 

[Iain...]

Queenie…, this is amazing.  RootsChat never ceases to amaze me.
It’s also embarrassing as with names like that, Geneanet should have been my first port of call. 
A note of interest for those in the UK…, Geneanet is 'totally' free. 

I have given the club the URL to this page and I’m sure they would want me to transmit their thanks.  Thank you. 

Have a nice afternoon. (horrible weather here in Belgium) 
Stay safe…, Iain. 

[Iain...]

Queenie…, I’ve just had a message from them.
“Thanks for this answer, Iain, but Mrs Borzée would like to know where (to write, or call) to obtain a copy of the marriage record celebrated « between October 1916 and December 1916 in Wandsworth, Surrey » !
A way to know more about the bride !”

Address, email or telephone number ? 
Thank you…   

[mckha489]

As QueenoftheWest is off line.

You order them from the GRO

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/menu.asp

It’s free to register, then you select “order Certificate or PDF.” In the top left hand corner.
For a marriage it has to be a certificate unfortunately. £11
Enter the details you have already posted.
Pay and wait.

[mckha489]

BTW. The cert will only have the father’s name, not the mother.

[Iain...]

Mckha..., thank you very much.
I will email them the info. 

Very kind of you..., Iain.