Who was Richard Anthony Addis prior to 1941

[Kloumann]

This is what we know:

Married Dorothy Hill Nicholls, Cheshire, 1941.

Twin sons born Flintshire, 1947

3rd son born Scotland, 1950

Richard passed, age 68, in 1985, Dunoon, Scotland, MMN, McKenzie

Unable to find a birth for him or on 1921 census or 1939 register.

Could he have changed his name or have been adopted?

[emeltom]

Do you have his marriage certificate? If so what details does it give re his father? Does it give his age?

[Kloumann]

Don't have the marriage cert. Age at death, 68, putting his birth around 1917. There are a few in 1917, but I have checked them all. Not him.

[JenB]

A newspaper report of his marriage states that was was ‘of Gloucester’, if that’s of any help.

[Kloumann]

Thanks, Jen. I did look at the Cheltenham birth which lists parent as Addis. Would need to look at the birth cert.

[ShaunJ]

You would need to get the 1941 marriage certificate to progress this.

[CaroleW]

Doesn't his death cert name his parents?

[CaroleW]

A Richard Arthur McKenzie was b Cheshire 1918 mmn Houghton

[elzabels]

There is mention in the London Gazette  Nov 1943 of Private Richard Anthony ADDIS ( NB there is a person of the same name born Gloucestershire)

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/853196:62074?tid=81315568&pid=46442564926&queryId=306cf8e6-53f8-4591-b72e-ff942146d6eb&_phsrc=kas1319&_phstart=successSource