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The Common Room / Re: Finding an Aunt
« on: Monday 15 September 25 19:49 BST (UK)  »
Well Debs only ever asked whether Pat, the ex wife of her uncle, was still alive and we answered that. All this stuff about Patricia's family was just us filling in the background and going down rabbit holes due to our curiosity.
I still have not sorted out how Patricia's name changed from SMITH to HILLIER after she left Debs' uncle. Maybe HILLIER was the surname of the famiky who adopted Patricia. Was she sent up north due to the war or because her parents had split up?
Still - time to close the book on this one.

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The Common Room / Re: Finding an Aunt
« on: Monday 15 September 25 18:00 BST (UK)  »
Halifax Evening Courier 14 Dec 1959
Mr George William CLARKE, M.M., of 1 Elton Terrace, Mytholmroyd, a charge hand in the dye works at Thomas Ratcliffe and Co. Ltd Moderna Works, Mytholmroyd, who died on September 27 last, left £1,002 18s gross, £494 5s 2d net. Probate has been granted to Mrs Beatrice M L FRANKLIN of the same address, and Newton MEADOWCROFT of 19 Highfield Road, South Shore Blackpool.


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The Common Room / Re: Finding an Aunt
« on: Monday 15 September 25 16:40 BST (UK)  »
Yes I decided the Patricia who died in 1998 was red herring last Friday - when I found the later death in Llanelli.

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The Common Room / Re: Finding an Aunt
« on: Sunday 14 September 25 18:09 BST (UK)  »
I am still confused as to why Beatrice is shown in the 1939 register as having changed her name from Franklin to CLARKE (in 1946?) but then gets buried as FRANKLIN.
In fact her death certificate seems to be done in both names.
Death q1 1971 Todmorden 2d 1473, Beatrice Marie L CLARKE born 8 Jan 1910
Death q1 1971 Todmorden 2d 1473, Beatrice Marie L FRANKLIN born 8 Jan 1910

I suppose getting a copy of the death certificate might explain it.

Then we have Patricia being married to Raymond SMITH, leaving or divorcing him and then getting married in Barnstaple as Patricia HILLIER to a man called COWARD. I suppose maybe she had got married in Scotland or perhaps just changed her name to HILLIER. The marriage certificate of her last marriage might explain.

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The Common Room / Re: Finding an Aunt
« on: Saturday 13 September 25 10:27 BST (UK)  »
Freebmd
Marriage q3 1956 Wolverhampton 9b 2273 - Patricia A M FRANKLIN + Raymond G SMITH (not Reginald as previously reported)

? Marriage q4 1970 Wincanton 7c 1314 - Patricia J SMITH + Stephen M HILLIER ?
Apart from this 1970 marriage I cant see how her name changed from SMITH to HILLIER. Maybe there was yet another marriage!

Marriage q2 1929 Camberwell 1d 1430 - Harry FRANKLIN + Beatrice M L ROLL.
1939 register indicates that Beatrice changed her name to CLARKE but I cannot find a marriage

Possible siblings for Patricia
Robert H 1929 - died 1933?
Allan 1933 - maybe with grandmother Beatrice M ROLL in 1939
Ronald G 1940

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The Common Room / Re: Finding an Aunt
« on: Friday 12 September 25 18:05 BST (UK)  »
Looks to me like she died as Patricia Ann Mabel COWARD on 14 Jul 2008 in Llanelli, post code SA15. Probate 14 Aug 2008.

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The Common Room / Re: Finding an Aunt
« on: Friday 12 September 25 11:48 BST (UK)  »
A Patricia COWARD died in Newport district in 1998. Probate with Will. Date of birth 18 November 1931,

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Difficulties tracing ancestors the Newcastle area
« on: Tuesday 09 September 25 23:49 BST (UK)  »
Freebmd shows that in NoT 1898 a James Millen COURTNEY married - maybe an Elizabeth Hannah MAYNE.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Difficulties tracing ancestors the Newcastle area
« on: Tuesday 09 September 25 21:19 BST (UK)  »
"1911 census has her birth place as Marske, Yorkshire"

That could be Marske near Richmond or Marske by the sea near Redcar.

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