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The Common Room / Re: Government Find a Will Service
« on: Sunday 16 November 25 19:30 GMT (UK)  »
I've just put in the last three orders on my current wish list.

The site seems very slow and the little wheel spun for ages while payment was being processed.

Have we overloaded them like when the price was reduced to £1.50 ?

Should I be expecting a long wait for my wills? Has anyone had delivery of a recent order?

Regarding the new price I was thinking that it sort of compares with the current cost of a paper marriage certificate from the GRO and likewise is always a bit of a punt on what details might be included. One will I bought contains loads of family detail and what was left to whom and where everyone lived. Another was more or less "I leave everything to my wife".

Tony.








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The Common Room / Re: Question re 3rd to 4th cousins
« on: Sunday 16 November 25 18:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there,

As I understand it third cousins will share 2xgreat grandparents and fourth cousins share 3xgreat grandparents.

Tony.

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The Common Room / Re: Stumped - can you help me find more about Charles pre name change?
« on: Friday 17 October 25 15:25 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

Might he be the redacted entry above Elsie at Laughton House, Pickford Green lane, Coventry on the 1939?

The son born 1938 looks like marrying Leicester 1969.

Tony.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Grandfather jailed for bigamy - missing link
« on: Sunday 25 May 25 09:42 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: PatLac on Saturday 24 May 25 18:56 BST (UK)
One way of knowing where Lucy Mabel's surname Markson came from is to find her first marriage record to Herbert Sydney (Sidney) Bellamy.

Hannah Lucy Hazel(l) had a brother Mark and a brother Harold. Maybe she used her brother's name to create a new surname (Markson) and gave her first son the other brother's name, Harold.

In 1911 Lucy Hazell (17) was living with brother Mark and wife, and brother Harold in Stockport Third, Reddish, Cheshire. No sign of her after that, unless she is one of two H. Hazell who emigrated to Canada.

If Richard Gilbert Pritcher was Gordon Roland Markerson/Markinson, he might have borrowed from her the idea of faking his name.


A picture of the certificate is on one of the Ancestry trees.

21st April 1914 District Registry Office Whittlesey.

Lucy Mabel Markson, Spinster

Father: John Markson, Undertaker (deceased)

 ???

Tony.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Grandfather jailed for bigamy - missing link
« on: Saturday 24 May 25 10:47 BST (UK)  »
Researching Mr Pitchers is the way I'd go next. If he can be found having a life after that 1926 marriage - a 1939 register entry or death record - then he can't have become your Gordon Roland/Richard and my theory would be disproved. I'd keep him out of your own tree until more research has been done.

Richard Gilbert/Gilbert Richard Pitchers does appear in a number of Ancestry trees but none of them have anything on his life after 1926. You could consider messaging the tree owners to see if anyone has any family stories about him. Something about "Uncle Gilbert that disappeared" would be gold dust!

Your Dad having taken a DNA test is very good news and if you're very lucky his match list will point quickly to the truth. There are lots of Rootschatters with DNA expertise that will help.

As others have said please do be wary of Ancestry hints. They can be helpful but reflect what people have built into their trees and can mislead.

Happy hunting!

Tony.




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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Grandfather jailed for bigamy - missing link
« on: Saturday 24 May 25 09:45 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: M3D1C_Dan on Monday 16 September 13 21:14 BST (UK)
I've had this email from the Wakefield Archives in West Yorkshire today who handle the prison deeds for Armley Prison. It might be something to go on.

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We have now undertaken a search of the Armley Prison collection (ref. C187) and I am afraid we were not able to find an entry for Gordon Richard Markinson.  There was, however an entry for a Gordon Rowland Markerson imprisoned at a similar date to your enquiry.  This gentleman seemed to match the description you had given and was imprisoned for a similar offence.  He was admitted to the prison on the 22nd of October 1949 and was released on the 9th of January 1950.
 
I have undertaken a search on the website freebmd.org and was able to find a marriage entry for George Markerson to Phyllis Oakley in March of 1934.  I was not able to find a birth entry of registration of death for Gordon R. Markerson.



Morning,

The 1949 imprisonment date came from this contact from the prison archives back at reply #51.

It only struck me when having a thorough re read of the whole thread that the newspaper report found was from 1946.

Tony.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Grandfather jailed for bigamy - missing link
« on: Friday 23 May 25 16:50 BST (UK)  »
Then there's this:

Births Dec 1922 Whittlesey 3B 763
Bellamy, Mary Celia Pitcher (mmn Markson)

Just going by the index this girl possibly registered as the child of the Bellamy/Markson marriage (we'd need the cert to know more).

Mr Bellamy died in WW1.......

Tony.


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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Grandfather jailed for bigamy - missing link
« on: Friday 23 May 25 16:01 BST (UK)  »
One other thing that's been niggling.

From the newspaper report we know he was 'bound over' in 1946 for the bigamous marriage to Nora Reddington.

He is not imprisoned until 1949 - What for?

Tony.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Grandfather jailed for bigamy - missing link
« on: Friday 23 May 25 15:37 BST (UK)  »
Plenty of options there for that boy to swap his names about!

Looking for him in 1939 without success so far.

Tony.

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