Abraham/Robinson Marriage

[gralorn]

I would love to find out where and when Ruth Ayliff Robinson, the daughter of Lt Col MacLeod Bawtree Robinson of Pound Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk (1858-1935) married Arthur Abraham before emigrating in 1913 to Vargas Island in BC, Canada to join her husband, a rancher. Sadly, he as a Capt with the 23rd Bantam Battalion of the Manchester Regiment was killed in WW1, he received the Military Cross. Ruth returned to Pound Hall in 1919 as a widow. She left Montreal on the ship Melita arriving back in the U.K. on the 9th November 1919. Her brother in law Edward Abraham was my great uncle also living on Vargas Island, but thankfully survived the war and took my great aunt Dorothy Abraham (nee ALLARD) as a war bride. Information on Ruth and Arthur’s marriage would be most appreciated. Thank you in anticipation.

Graham

[rosie99]

I would love to find out where and when Ruth Ayliff Robinson, the daughter of Lt Col MacLeod Bawtree Robinson of Pound Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk (1858-1935) married Arthur Abraham before emigrating in 1913 to Vargas Island in BC,

I think your dates must be wrong

Marriage Mar qtr 1917 
Abraham    Arthur T   
Robinson    Ruth A   
Reigate reg district    2a   363

She married at St Mary, Reigate on 11th January 1917

[gralorn]

I have seen that marriage, but it just makes very little sense as she emigrated in 1913 and then returned in 1919 as a widow!

[mckha489]

The image for that marriage is on Ancestry.
It is clearly her . January 11th 1917

[rosie99]

FindMyPast has the transcript of the 1917 marriage and the details you give for her father match 

[mckha489]

I think this is her going to Canada to visit the in laws in 1918

Ruth Abraham
Gender:   Female
Arrival Age:   29
Birth Year:   abt 1889
Birth Country:   South Africa
Departure Port:   Liverpool, England
Arrival Date:   17 Mar 1918
Arrival Port:   St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
Vessel:   Missanabie

I wonder if there is something in the newspapers about her visit.

[CaroleW]

Where did you get the info that she emigrated in 1913.  She would still have been Robinson in 1913

[Annette7]

On the passenger listing for 17/3/1918 she is shown as a widow and that she had been in BC before in 1912 for 3 years.

Annette

[rosie99]

Suffolk and Essex Free Press 28 November 1917
Article about him following his death states he married last January