Please help me get my sister off my back !

[ShaunJ]

I was able to order the marriage certificate for Harold's first marriage

but not being able to find the first marriage

I'm confused, Nick !

[ShaunJ]

Re Baggygenes "coinkydink" it looks like the Harry Sleigh and Lily Clayton who married in 1936 emigrated to Canada and settled in BC (there 's a public tree on Ancestry)

[Nick29]

I was able to order the marriage certificate for Harold's first marriage

but not being able to find the first marriage

I'm confused, Nick !

Sorry, I meant Minnie's second marriage     Put it down to old age and forgetfulness !  Original now corrected 

[baggygenes]

Re Baggygenes "coinkydink" it looks like the Harry Sleigh and Lily Clayton who married in 1936 emigrated to Canada and settled in BC (there 's a public tree on Ancestry)

bother!!! 

[Nick29]

Ahh well, that's one less thing for me to look into 

[ShaunJ]

I looked at law notices in The Times, and records at TNA,  for the divorce proceedings but the only two I could find for "Sleigh v Sleigh" were from 1937, and neither of them involved a Harold or a  Minnie.

There was a Harold Sleigh cited as co-respondent in Wooller v Wooller in 1936 but that doesn't help! 

[ShaunJ]

There's an interesting piece of information on this earlier thread: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,595381.msg4456329.html#msg4456329

It looks like Harold was born Harold Leslie Stevenson

[Nick29]

There's an interesting piece of information on this earlier thread: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,595381.msg4456329.html#msg4456329

It looks like Harold was born Harold Leslie Stevenson

And that was my thread too, which I can't remember posting.  This chemotherapy lark plays havoc with your memory 

That would account for Harold Leslie being listed twice in the BMD indexes - once in 1909, and once in 1925.

P.S. I've spoken to my brother-in-law, and he says that his father joined the army at a young age, so maybe that's why the certificate was changed ?  He was 16 at the time.


 

[avm228]

Probate was granted to his wife Sheila Mary.

The probate calendar lists this a an administration rather than a grant of probate, so unfortunately it looks as though he died intestate. A pity - I was going to suggest that a will might well contain a mention of the daughter.