John Graham

[Holmemoss]

Hello MMC52B
I can see from the number of your posts that you are relatively new to rootschat. I am quite new too and there are a lot of people on here who have been very helpful to me. I have always tried to look things up for myself first (not always successfully!) and forgive me if I am preaching to the converted but:

familysearch.org has transcripts of births, marriages and some burials pre-1837 for Engalnd and a free transcript of the 1881 census.

freebmd.org.uk has births, deaths and marriages from 1837 onwards

genuki.org.uk has a lot of background information on parishes, churches, etc.

All of this is free. Again, forgive me if I am telling you what you already know.

[MMC52B]

Thank you for your reply.  Yes, I am aware and have used the online sources you mention.  I have, however, had real problems in tracing my father's family, the Grahams, due in part because he seems to have given false information about himself.  I am beginning to wonder whether his marriage to my mother may have been bigamous and he was anxious that his first, possible wartime, marriage was not traced.  I would really like to find other descendants of the Rothwell Graham family who may have additional information.  It was kind of you to post.

[Holmemoss]

Hello MMC52B
Are you talking about a marriage during World War II? If so, no-one is likely to post about this for privacy reasons as the people you are looking for may be living.

I don't think the FreeBMD has been transcribed for the 1940s yet but if you subscribe to ancestry then you will be able to search for appropriate marriages. Sorry I can't help as my ancestry subscription has expired.

[MMC52B]

Thank you for your reply.  No, it would have been around 1917-20 and would have been between William Albert Graham (who was born in Stratford, London but whose roots were in Yorkshire) and?  I have obtained a couple of marriage certificates which proved not to be the right William....  My father died in 1972.

[Holmemoss]

Have you any idea where they may have married?

[MMC52B]

I am afraid not, nor even if he did marry before 1935 (when he married my mother) but it would explain why he tweaked various dates.  Thanks for your interest.