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Other Countries / Re: Le Juge De Segrais
« on: Thursday 25 October 18 15:00 BST (UK)  »
Hi Sharon 01
Thank you so much for your message. Unfortunately for some reason I cannot PM you back, so thought I would write here.
Thanks for sending over details of grandma’s first marriage. It has been a massive help in piecing together a missing part of the puzzle. Very difficult to get that kind of information when both grandma and grandad are deceased so thank you.
I would be very interested to know why the family travelled down from Hexham - was it just for work? Also John P Stewart, what would be our great grandfather, it seems he was living with another family as a young boy up in Hexham. Would be interesting to have some info on him too if you have it.
Very best wishes

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Other Countries / Re: Le Juge De Segrais
« on: Monday 22 October 18 07:37 BST (UK)  »
Hello! I’m very late to this chat, but Sharon01 I think your great aunt might be my grandmother who died back in 1994.
By chance I’ve been doing a little bit of research over the weekend and found this link so thought I would reply.
I share some names with you: Salkeld (my great grandmothers maiden name), Stewart (my great grandfathers name - my grandmothers maiden name). I do not know Fagan’s but i’ve heard my dad speak about them. He had cousins in London with that surname.
My grandmother married Le Juge de Segrais we believe after WW2. Apparently as the story goes they were divorced within a year. My grandmothers marriage certificate to my grandfather says her marriage to le juge de segrais was dissolved but she signs her name le juge de segrais on the marriage certificate when she married my grandfather.
This was all kept a secret from my father - I guess the divorce must have hurt her and been humiliating for her. For those times and for working class folk I think getting divorced was quite rare.
My dad only found out from one of his aunties who had also been keeping the secret when both his mum and dad (my grandparents) died.
We can find all birth and marriage certificates of my grandparents but we cannot find the marriage certificate of my grandmother with le juge de segrais which made me wonder whether she got married abroad for her first marriage to de segrais.
My grandmothers second marriage was to a far less exotic but clearly more devoted Weaver from Bermondsey.
Hope this is helpful to you.
Good luck searching.

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