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Canada / Re: Bernard McLaughlin New Brunswick 1886
« on: Tuesday 23 December 25 05:00 GMT (UK)  »
Probate records for NB are held at the provincial archives. Those for Kings Co do survive:

https://archives2.gnb.ca/Documents/CountyGuides/Kings_en-CA.pdf

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Cape Town 1898 - Immigration records
« on: Saturday 13 December 25 09:58 GMT (UK)  »
It is a very high chance that she simply said "widow".  It was considered more respectable and especially after WWI, was unlikely to be questioned - as long as your ex was safely overseas and not likely to turn up to contradict you!

It looks like there was the beginning of seperation in 1911 and divorce from 1915. In 1915 a James Ford, divorcee, married Annie Pollock in Johannesburg (middle name is indexed Baun but I think might be Bann).  He has shaved a couple of years off, making himself a round 40. His new wife was just 25.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP4R-BM4B?lang=en

They had at least one child born 1919, although for some reason she wasn't baptised until 1934:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:88JM-813Z?lang=en

The second marriage of that daughter:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:D4XP-74ZM?lang=en
view=fullText&keywords=Annie%20Bann&lang=en&groupId=

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Australia / Re: Thomas Wills and Henry Lewis Conran: gold mine owners, S Australia, 1890s onward
« on: Monday 17 November 25 13:00 GMT (UK)  »
It seems like in this period, the Conrans may have been travelling in Europe. Perhaps it was simply that they decided to bring him along rather than leaving him at school.

France:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4995471?searchTerm=%22Harry%20%20Conran%22

Switzerland:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138762655?searchTerm=%22Harry%20%20Conran%22

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The Common Room / Re: Arthur Rhodes from Stockport - Post WW1?
« on: Saturday 08 November 25 22:10 GMT (UK)  »
For there to be an affiliation order, we would be looking at a child not belonging to his wife.  Perhas from during his time in service? Unless the original court records survive, perhaps at Stockport Archives, they might be nearly impossible to track, though.  It is highly likely the child was not registered under his surname.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Raymond Woodrow Statham
« on: Saturday 08 November 25 11:03 GMT (UK)  »
That's just what somebody's put on the familysearch tree.  It's not clear who has put that name, or why.

It's not a source (a source is something like a baptism, marriage, military record, will, etc).

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Australia / Re: What happened to Ethel Pontin?
« on: Saturday 08 November 25 09:46 GMT (UK)  »
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJB-DKFG?view=fullText

According to this, Ethel was last known of in Ballarat.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Raymond Woodrow Statham
« on: Saturday 08 November 25 08:30 GMT (UK)  »
What sources do you have for them already?

Middle names are exceedingly rare in this period (sometimes alias names are mistaken for middle names).  All the sources for Richard (from his marriage and children) show his name only Richard Statham, and I don't see any sources that give his father's name.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/K6WQ-7RQ

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Europe / Re: Henri Libert. Death record. Belgium
« on: Sunday 26 October 25 08:17 GMT (UK)  »
Agatha doesn't have civil records that late.

He doesn't appear at https://wardeadregister.be/en

Do you know where Henri was born?  With luck, a marginal note on his birth certificate might tell you when/where he passed away.

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The Common Room / Re: Help needed tracing somene who disappears from the records
« on: Monday 20 October 25 09:25 BST (UK)  »
The old bailey record doesn't have much more info, other than that he was employed by the post office
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18920502-464?text=Gough


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