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« on: Sunday 04 November 12 17:59 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
Not a problem! Thanks for getting back to me.
I haven't found him on the 1911 census, but I was able to locate his military record, which was the "missing link" that showed he was the same Thomas McKenzie who was my great-grandfather. We had always known that his "marriage" to my great-grandmother in 1913 was not a legally valid one and that he had not in fact been killed in the First World War as she claimed, but had survived. I had long suspected that he had gone on to marry Elizabeth Hall in 1919, but the military record provides the confirmation because it gives his address on demobilisation as the McLelland Street, Glasgow address that is listed on his marriage certificate to Elizabeth. His address on enlistment was the address in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at which my grandmother was born in 1915. His military record also refers to my grandmother as his daughter. On her birth certificate he is shown as the father and his occupation is given as "Music Hall Artiste". We will never know why his relationship with my great-grandmother came to an end or why he played no further part in my grandmother's life, but it was very interesting to find out what happened to him later, especially since I emigrated to Australia myself in 2005 and know Melbourne well!
How are you related to him? Are you descended from one of his siblings?
Simon
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