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Hi Lizzie

Thank you so much for your reply and it was super to hear from you

We have quite a bit of information about Ruth from when she married my grandfather and moved to Australia, but finding her birth has been the one piece of our puzzle that we could never find.  I don't have access to Ancestry, I'm afraid, but I did try looking on FindMyPast for Ruth Millard although I didn't have much luck either.  We, like yourself, found her mother and siblings but Ruth is a complete mystery, at the moment :-)

I will keep looking also (when my FNP subscription runs out I might have to give Ancestry a go) and if I can find anything more I will let you know.  And if there is any other information for Ruth that you would like, please let me know and I will hopefully be able to help. 

Thank you so much again for replying.

Kindest regards

Tanya

Hello Jenn

Thank you so much for your reply to my post      It's the same lady that you very kindly helped me out with earlier on the WA Electoral Roll - Mrs Ruth Howell    She has become a 'brick wall' that I just can't seem to get past. 

With the help of a friend in Australia we managed to find out a little bit about Ruth but I've never been able to find out when or where she died.  I haven't been able to find her birth either so she is quite a mystery to us

I have a fair bit of information/paperwork on her marriage to my grandad, the two sons they had and what happened to them both, grandad and Ruth's divorce, her second marriage to Frederick Howell and the sons they had (and an adopted daughter) but after 1944 I can't find anything.

I was in touch with one of her grandsons who gave me a little bit of info but nothing that could tell me what happened to Ruth as it was a subject that his family would not discuss at all .  He told me that Ruth left her second husband and children for another man and she never returned home - he believes she was killed in a car accident in SA.  I tried the coroners office to find out if this was true but they had no records of a Ruth Howell.  I also e-mailed the library about the electoral rolls for later years but as I don't know where she was living I don't think they will be able to help me out.

So, I was wondering if she may have divorced her second husband and married again and that's why I can't find her under the Howell surname?  It's a bit of a longshot but I thought it might be worth a try    I do have a set of divorce papers from grandad's marriage but I have since lost contact with the lady who was helping me so I can't ask her how she managed to get hold of them.

If you could find anything that could help me I would be really, really grateful as it's something that I would love know about as grandad never told anyone that he had been married before and it was only from talking to a 'new' relative that we found out there was a 'skeleton in the closet'.  A complete shock for everyone 

Ruth's parents were Edward and Frances Ambrose although Frances re-married after Edward died and became Frances Tandy.  She also moved to Australia and helped Frederick raise the children when Ruth left.  Looking at the certificates that I have, Ruth was born Ruth Sylvia Ambrose in Gloucester around 1905. 

I'm also not sure what to think about the information given to me by her grandson as there are a couple of things that don't seem to fit.  According to her mother's death certificate and obituary, Ruth was still living at home in 1944 but her grandson said she had walked out before then and no-one saw her again.  It also seemed strange that she adopted a baby girl a few weeks before they said she left. 

My only other thought is that maybe she went into a home or institution as I think she may have suffered from manic depression but I wouldn't know where to start looking for medical information (if it is at all possible).

I'm sorry it's ended up as quite a long reply - there are so many bits and pieces and I find it hard to put it all into a couple of sentences 

Thank you again for offering to take a look for me and it would be super if you could find something to point me in a new direction.

Best wishes and hope to hear from you again

Tanya

Good afternoon all 
 
Would someone be kind enough to let me know how I could go about finding if a lady in our famliy tree divorced her second husband?  Are there any indexes that can be searched?

The husband lived and died in Western Australia but I can't find a death for his wife and I'm wondering if she could have re-married.

Many thanks for your help.

Tanya 

Hello Jenn

Many, many thanks for the information that you have given me for Ruth and Frederick Howell - it is definitely the lady I am researching (my grandfather's first wife) 

Could I possibly ask if you know what "Flendfair/Glendfair" relates too?

Thank you for posting a reply so quickly too 

Kindest regards

Tanya

Hi Maz

I am also researching the AMOS surname but in different areas - Kent, Birmingham, Norfolk and Australia.  I think that the family may have also been to Liverpool and Buxton but haven't been able to confirm this yet.

Haven't traced very far back as we are struggling to find our great, great-grandparents and their children in Kent during the 1870's.  Our tree is going sideways at the moment as we have recently discovered a 'secret marriage' which has taken our research to Oz.

Although my family were born in Birmingham, my mom and aunt (both Amos') moved to Warwick in 1976 and are still living there now.  If you are interested in any of the places I am looking, let me know and I will pass on any info I have that may help.

Bye for now
Tanya