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The Common Room / Re: Help with finding a marriage please
« on: Tuesday 27 December 16 20:20 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Ellen, thanks for the information. As far as I know Herbert didn't have a middle name. I do think it's a strong possibility that he got married in India or South Africa though. I haven't done any research in those areas so that will have to be my next job! Jackie

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The Common Room / Re: Help with finding a marriage please
« on: Tuesday 20 December 16 19:45 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Lizzie, thanks for the information. I will try and compare the signature with his military records but it sounds quite promising as I've found an entry in the electoral register from 1910 so it looks he was in Shipley then.  He was in South Africa to 1.3.07 and after that it says 'Home' for only two days from 2.3.07 to 4.3.07.  I'm not sure how much travelling time there would be from SA and what that would come under.  Following that it says Reserve from 5.3.07 to 16.7.11. Presumably as a Reserve he would back home then?

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The Common Room / Re: Help with finding a marriage please
« on: Tuesday 20 December 16 07:41 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Lizzie. Where can I find the information? I've found the court records on Ancestry but that's all. I've looked into the man he shot and it looks like he was a police constable!

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The Common Room / Re: Help with finding a marriage please
« on: Monday 19 December 16 22:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Mabel, thanks very much. I've never heard anything like that about him! I will  do some research and see what I can find. Thanks again.

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The Common Room / Re: Help with finding a marriage please
« on: Monday 19 December 16 18:52 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, maybe. I never thought of that!

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The Common Room / Re: Help with finding a marriage please
« on: Monday 19 December 16 18:38 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, that's a good point. I've just looked up all women called Croft on Free BMD who died in the two years before Herbert married Elizabeth. I've cross referenced these names with marriages to a Herbert Croft from 1905 to 1908 and there's nothing. It's looking more and more like a marriage abroad. I wouldn't even know where to start with that one!  :-[

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The Common Room / Re: Help with finding a marriage please
« on: Monday 19 December 16 17:36 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Chris, I wondered whether he had got married abroad, either in South Africa or India.  If that was the case though, do you think he would be in touch with his spouse when he returned to England and then to be informed when she died approximately 20 years later?  I do think it's a strong possibility they waited until the first wife died and got married soon after but if that was the case and if the first wife lived abroad, Herbert would have had to be in contact with her over a long period of time.  I suppose nothing's impossible! 

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The Common Room / Re: Help with finding a marriage please
« on: Monday 19 December 16 14:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Lizzie, yes I think the same! Maybe my grandfather didn't know they weren't married when he was born. Otherwise why would they bother re-registering his birth?

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The Common Room / Re: Help with finding a marriage please
« on: Monday 19 December 16 13:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, yes it's a re-registration. It looks like they re-registered my grandfather's birth after they got married in 1930. I also have my grandfather's original birth certificate from 1915.

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