Newbie help please - have hit a brick wall

[morganvj]

I've found Frances/Fanny on other Ancestry users' family trees. Including a photo!

Nothing significant wrt her split from Daniel though.

[bbart]

Lizzie posted the link to the divorce earlier;  I highly recommend you obtain it.  It should be full of dates and addresses, and as Geoffrey was named as a co-respondent, this pretty much screams adultery.  It is odd that Barbara was stashed away in Kent with Maud Patti Clara Coombe; did Daniel even know about Barbara??  Perhaps the divorce would shed light on that.

Here's the link again:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8029648

When you click on "Request a copy", you will first get an explanation of the costs.  There is a nonrefundable cost of £8.40  for them to see if it is indeed there, and in good enough shape to be copied.  After that, the cost for copying is just based on the amount of pages, and they will give a quote before proceeding.   You can go digital, or paper.

I have ordered several before, and the information in them was quite astounding, and certainly cleared up a lot of questions.  If memory serves, it takes at least a month to get the copy.

[morganvj]

Lizzie posted the link to the divorce earlier;  I highly recommend you obtain it.  It should be full of dates and addresses, and as Geoffrey was named as a co-respondent, this pretty much screams adultery.  It is odd that Barbara was stashed away in Kent with Maud Patti Clara Coombe; did Daniel even know about Barbara??  Perhaps the divorce would shed light on that.

Here's the link again:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8029648

When you click on "Request a copy", you will first get an explanation of the costs.  There is a nonrefundable cost of £8.40  for them to see if it is indeed there, and in good enough shape to be copied.  After that, the cost for copying is just based on the amount of pages, and they will give a quote before proceeding.   You can go digital, or paper.

I have ordered several before, and the information in them was quite astounding, and certainly cleared up a lot of questions.  If memory serves, it takes at least a month to get the copy.

I will. Thanks for the link 

[morganvj]

My Dad has ordered the Ancestry DNA test kit, so, with those results plus the information from the divorce petition, I think we'll get to the bottom of who Barbara's father was.

I suspect it will be Geoffrey, not Daniel. I've enjoyed getting to "know" Daniel though. He had an interesting life - appears to have qualified as a doctor then a dentist, and lived in the Isle of Man, London, Hereford, South Wales, and then back to the Isle of Man at the end of his life. His second marriage was a long one. He went to the same university as I did!