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Thanks for that link. Ive checked there now and nothing,  one hospital has replied ssying contact city hall, another says they havr checked archive's and nothing.  Just waiting for the embassy to reply a few more hospitals,  but I think the main one is city hall. Ive also checked consular deaths in the national archives and nothing. Dare I think he may not be dead and living somewhere as a 83 year old?

Hello All

This forum looks great! had a quick peek around but looks very daunting!

The reason i came here was i was directed here from a contact in the US who is reseaching the same tree as me, and pointed to a board where the whole thread unravelled the story of my Grandma, was most fascinating and a bit weird to be honest. I had completly the wrong details about her and with her guidance and the said post i have managed to piece together her story. I have actually updated the thread but no one has replied yet, it is 6  months old.

My Family Tree is Tennant/Mccann. The Mccann side (maternal) i researched about 5 years ago before giving birth to my first daughter. The Tennant (paternal0 part i started recently whcih brings to my question!

My Dad is Lionel J T Tennant b 1928. He served in the merchant navy, he was a bit of a roamer, my mum divorced him in 1973 and since then me and brothers heard little of him. Our last contact was when my father became ill in hospital and the hospital contacted his youngest son Barry Tennant to request his presence, we think this was in 1979 or 1980.  Barry was on a ship in HM Royal Navy at the time he got this request via his officer, but unfortunately he did not attend, and sadly this was the last we heard. Barry insists the call came from a hospital in Amsterdam. My father was a street entertainer and travelled europe lots after retiring from the navy, he never really had a fixed abode. Other members of the family have siad he died in germany and he married again and had more children. According to my mother he was already a divorceee when she met him, but i can find no evidence of anymore marriages apart from theirs! Now when i do searches using BDM etc i get his birth, and marriage. ive got all his brothers, ive found his Mum the famous ''gertrude'' mentioned above, but nothing else on my dad. The last thing i have done is communicated with the city hall in amsterdam explaining the above and they are doing a search, but im still waiting. All me and my brothers want to know is where he died and go pay our respects. My brother barry hates himself for not leaving his ship (esp having permission) and going to see him he having a really hard time with it. I explain he was 19 at the time and he was young but he wont stop until hes visited his grave bless him. If anyone can shed any light i would be most grateful My Brother wants us to go to wherever he is in Europe asap.

Thank you all for welcoming me to the site and thank you also in advance for any help with the above.

details already
1928
16 Jun
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire
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Residence
1928
4 Jun
505 The Wells Rd, St Anns, Nottingham

Marriage to Catherine Elizabeth McCann
1959
Jun
Age: 31
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

Divorce from Catherine Elizabeth McCann
1972
Age: 44
Nottingham

Death?
1980
ABT
Age: 52
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
This is still an unknown we are researching this currently

Also Known As
Trevor
John Trevor
John

Occupation
Merchant Seaman

Gertrude mentioned above was my Grandma mentioned in the first paragraph! yes very interesting! im happy to get this moved how do i do this? 

regards AG

Hi All

This is Andrea, im Gertrudes grandaughter! Daughter of Lionel J Tennant. Im trying to find more info about her as she died when i was young, i think the info you have (that maybe flakey) is the info i was peicing together many years ago whewn i started this, i have taken it up again!

First! I had, but now cant find, my mothers and father marraige cert, this is where i got the info about jobs places etc, and im sure i retrieved from this that Gertrude was born in durham? no one really knows that much about her, i wish i could find this darm certificate as i have durham and everyone else has scotland. I have never once heard scotland talked about in the family, but do recall her being from up north west. Then again we had no idea either that she had so many eligit children either! shocker!

Secondly im looking for death certificate of her son (my dad) Lionel Jt Tennant known as Trevor my mum divorced him when i was born and me and my brothers would like to find out what happened to him, we THINK he died in germany, but it could be Amsterdam, circa 1980

Lastly since this thread was started a year back can any of the original posters help me shed some light please as im desperate to peice together this tree - and finally find more about my dad resting place.

Thank you