South Australia BMD search

[sparrett]

I don't think he married this lass, just kept house and shared his surname with fake first name with her  in Melbourne. in 1931

[redmr2red]

Yes!! Who was the bigamist first?

There is a letter on the NAA Web Site (search Walter Edward Summerton) in July 1921 by Kate's father complaining about publicly causing Kate distress when she learned of Summerton's other marriage. Kate married Summerton in 1912 and I can't now know when that marriage ended, but she didn't marry Ashworth until 1925, 4 years after the letter.  So, I assume by that time she would be free to marry again.

[redmr2red]

That is interesting Sparrett. It is possible that the entry for 69 Queensbury Street in Melbourne could be the reason why the marriage to Kate broke down.  1921 she knew Summerton had married again. 1925 Kate married Ashworth and moved to Sydney. So it could have been another marriage or just living together as husband and wife.  As they say the plot thickens.

[sparrett]

Thanks Sparrett, I'm trying to find the children to Kate Ada nee Johnston.  Kate was born in Launceston, Tasmania.  The family moved to Melbourne early 1900 (Kate was around 15) and Kate married Sommerton from SA.  Later around 1925 she married (2) Alfred Ashworth in Melbourne and moved to NSW where she lived her remaining years.

I'm trying to find any children she may have had to Sommerton either in SA or VIC.

I am not sure that her marriage to Alfred Ernest ASHWORTH went well for her.

Interestingly they lived in 1930 at Johnston St, number 270 in Kentville NSW and he was a builder..

There seem to have been at least one child, a boy who was resued from a house fire.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/125443481

Another version of the story says it happened when his wife was on a holiday.

A search of his name on Trove brings up the troubles with the law, drink-driving, use of aliases
(Wadsworth, A. B. Lane)  (Police Gazette NSW) a divorce in earlier life and sundry other snips.

I'm not sure how relevant this information is to your inquiry, but his name in the search box will tell much

Sue