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World War One / Re: Louvain 1914
« on: Friday 21 May 10 08:04 BST (UK)  »
Final question if anyone is out there - no death certificate?
What does that mean and where do I go now?
Thanks

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World War One / Re: Louvain 1914
« on: Sunday 16 May 10 14:24 BST (UK)  »
Thank you again. My grandmother was Winifred, and she had a younger sister Lena, so I will
check the older sister, don't know if there was a lost child - but will work on with all these
things, I really appreciate your input Corisande - thank-you.


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World War One / Re: Louvain 1914
« on: Sunday 16 May 10 08:26 BST (UK)  »
 ;D  Thank you again, I have just read the other thread - so no bigamist but his wife died - sorry for posting two threads don't know what I am doing!! So what now - how do I find where he went afterwards, I am sure he never divorced my great grandmother - so how do you trace someone who disappears - I will get on the genereunited website. What should I do now??
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!

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World War One / Re: Louvain 1914
« on: Sunday 16 May 10 08:19 BST (UK)  »
Sorry I was so excited I hadn't read all of them! You guys are amazing - how did you get all this information. Corisande, you find the proof he was married to my great grandmother - where did you find that. I have been looking for proof of that for ages! My grandmother thought he might be a bigamist and have two families, this may be the proof of it. One day he just went off with family number one! And all the army stuff is so helpful - do you know if they did get to Louvain - my grandmother said he'd been there and obviously it had been destroyed so very resonant reason for naming her that. Thanks so much !

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World War One / Re: Louvain 1914
« on: Sunday 16 May 10 08:13 BST (UK)  »
 :) Thank you so much, my mother will be beside herself!
Neither of the mariages are to my great grandmother -
she was called Sarah Ann Hughes - my grandmother, Winifred was born in Flintshire, I have her birth certificate registered at St Asaph. There is a Sarah Ann Hughes who married at St Asaph in 1908 - but no spouse name. Are all marriages registered ? I wondered if this could be to him, if not they never got married - no wonder her family hated him. My poor grandmother never recovered him disappearing like he did, very sad.  I have seen these other two marriages - and there is an Austin Birtwhistle living in Whistable in 1928 as a fruitier, in the phone book. I will keep looking. Can anyone tell my is the only way to find out who people married is to send off for the marriage certificate? I have never done this before!

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Lancashire / Austin Birtwhistle
« on: Thursday 13 May 10 22:27 BST (UK)  »
Anyone know this name? My great grandfather born around 1890, may or may not have been married to my great grandfather - lived in Rhyl with her probably from around 1910 to 1915, my grandmother was born then and then disappeared and was never seen again. My grandmother thought he had a second (or first) family somewhere else. He is not on any census but is on her birth certificate and did fight in the first world war in 1914, possibly in the  Cheshire Regiment. Her middle name was Louvain, which was destroyed by the Germans August 1914 and my grandmother always said he had been there, which must have been between August and December of that year as she was born December. Desperate to find out what happened to him, somehow he left a gap in the family which still resonates now. Anyone out there got a Austin Birtwhistle as a grandfather? ???

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World War One / Louvain 1914
« on: Thursday 13 May 10 22:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I am looking for my very elusive great grandfather who I believe was in Louvain sometime after its destruction in 1914, my grandmother's middle name was Louvain - does anybody know who were the first British troops to enter Louvain?

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