question to any Cumbria experts out there

[PeterLS]

Geoff,

Many thanks for your message on 3rd Jan which I have only just picked up. You are a star !!  My surname was Smith but now changed to Lawson-Smith to preserve the links. George Smith was my great Grandfather and I had been told that he married Ruth Erskine  who had been married before but was divorced. I had been a bit suspicious of this but your information seems to link up. Very many thanks. Part of my extended family has said that Ruth was the daughter of Sir Wilfred Lawson and this seems to be in doubt.They also quote the surname Wyberg.which confuses things.I have an address of 6 Oxford St. Sockton-on Tees for George Smith which is probably right as my father came from Middlesborough. 

PeterLS

[GeoffE]

I have an address of 6 Oxford St. Stockton-on Tees for George Smith which is probably right as my father came from Middlesborough. 

Yes, that is where they were living in the 1881 census.

Either one of Ruth's marriage certificates ought to give her father's name.

Marriages Mar 1867
ERSKINE    John Henry         Cockermouth    10b   645    
LAWSON    Ruth         Cockermouth    10b   645

Marriages Dec 1873
ERSKINE    Ruth        Stockton    10a   211    
SMITH    George         Stockton    10a   211

[PeterLS]

Thank you once again Geoff. I am very grateful indeed. You have given me a big boost.

Regards

PeterLS