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The Common Room / Found on the back of an old photo
« on: Tuesday 14 January 25 12:51 GMT (UK)  »
This line was found written on the back of an old photo
" A new dawn and a new year breaks on the morrow".
 I do not know if it from a poem or a song, or even just a random quote.

Can anyone help please?


Richard

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London and Middlesex / Re: Mario F. Galli birth 1900'ish
« on: Monday 02 September 24 11:48 BST (UK)  »
The marriage cert has been ordered, so hopefully some answers will be there. Their daughter has long passed so it is not possible to verify the details I have.  As her mother Ida married at least twice more, she never knew her father or to my knowledge ever met him.
So its a bit like chasing a ghost.

Thanks everyone for looking.

Richard

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London and Middlesex / Re: Mario F. Galli birth 1900'ish
« on: Sunday 01 September 24 18:43 BST (UK)  »
I think to middle initial for Mario may be  for Felice.

Their daughter's  1st name may  actually be "Guisephina" , but again no facts to support this.
If he lived in London no census backs that up.  Could he  also have been an illegal immigrant and left  before the daughter was born.  It was the daughter who passed down what few details we have to go on.

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London and Middlesex / Mario F. Galli birth 1900'ish
« on: Sunday 01 September 24 13:41 BST (UK)  »
Trying to find anything on this chap. I know he married in 1925 (London) to  a Ida Mary Fantoni (sp) and they had a daughter in 1926 Josephina Natalina Enza Galli.
The marriage did not last as Ida went on for two other marriages (1943 & 1945, and i have all those details.
Mario just seems to disappear, not only can I not find birth details for him, although I am lead to believe that he was born in the UK, I can not  find death details either.
There is a strong Italian connection from the Lake Maggiori area. There is also a rumour that he died in Paris during the war, where he may have been running a hotel (conjecture only, no facts to support this).
Thanks for any help with this one
Richard

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Wales / Re: Sheila Elizabeth Francis ( Nee Gibson) 1922 - 1995
« on: Sunday 05 March 23 18:37 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all who assisted me on this.  I now have them all "grafted" onto my tree and hopefully, at some later date, DNA will confirm the facts and then I may find some "step/half siblings" (or whatever they are).


Richard

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Wales / Re: Sheila Elizabeth Francis ( Nee Gibson) 1922 - 1995
« on: Sunday 05 March 23 18:05 GMT (UK)  »
   Walter Montrose Francis McKenzie
Baptism Age   0
Record Type   Baptism
Birth Date   6 Jul 1909
Baptism Date   13 Feb 1910
Baptism Place   St John the Evangelist, Red Lion Square, Camden, England
Father   John Percival McKenzie
Mother   Beatrice Eleanor McKenzie

You have turned up more information in your last 3 post than I have in weeks.

So my mother was less than forthcoming in regards to her past.  Cyril did not die in the war, so either they divorced or she was a really, really naughty girl back then.

Many thanks

Richard

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Wales / Re: Sheila Elizabeth Francis ( Nee Gibson) 1922 - 1995
« on: Sunday 05 March 23 12:42 GMT (UK)  »
That I never considered !!!
Food for thought there.

But I still need to identify Cyril’s family (and tree) to try a DNA approach.  If this was an ancient member of my tree I would most likely leave it as another “wall”.  But this is a Step Father and any other children he had are my 1/2 siblings.

If Sheila lied on her marriage cert then the only way I can see to prove (or not) is to find Cyril. If he died in the war then she told the truth. If he lived then she may have told a “porky pie”, and even been married to 2 men at once.
(Sounds like a movie plot)

Richard


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Wales / Re: Sheila Elizabeth Francis ( Nee Gibson) 1922 - 1995
« on: Saturday 04 March 23 19:12 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the information in your last 2 posts.  I do not think Sheila divorced as her marriage cert shows “widow” when she wed my father.
So I have to search further to find Cyril’s death, if such a record exists that is.


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Wales / Re: Sheila Elizabeth Francis ( Nee Gibson) 1922 - 1995
« on: Saturday 04 March 23 17:09 GMT (UK)  »
Sheila was my mother and she married my father ( Fredrick William Schoch) in 1947.  She had a complicated life ..3 husbands, 6 children to the 3 men. 
She had her 1st son Micheal John Francis in 1943.  So obviously I am trying to find out what happened to her 1st husband Cyril.  She never spoke of him but implied that he was killed in WW11, hence this post.
While I have now added more family members I still have no idea where Cyril went.  Strange I can trace some branches of my tree to the 1700’s but can not solve this one.

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