Missing marriage - Long Eaton 1918

[KGarrad]

 

There are some trees on Ancestry for this couple.
They have a marriage certificate attached:
16th May 1918  of Gilbert Garner to Margaret Thompson

Witness: Alice Thompson

So any marriage would have taken place after 16th May?

[s4rah]

That's probably my tree

Yes, we're definitely talking after 16th May 1918. That marriage cert for Alice's sister (actually the person my grandmother ended up living with after 1930) was a shock to me when I got it - prior to that we had thought Alice was already living in Canada by then. Everyone in the family thought William & Alice had met in Canada, but perhaps not.

As you can imagine, my grandmother didn't really like to talk about her parents much. She hardly remembered them and rather felt they had abandoned her. Hence why we don't know too much about them.

[KGarrad]

If it's not a rude question - can I ask why you think the marriage took place in 1918?
And why you think it was in Long Eaton?

Just trying to narrow the possibilities!

Of course, they may not have actually married?

[s4rah]

Well that's the only conclusion I have drawn so far! He was born outside wedlock himself, so maybe he didn't put too much value on marriage.

My information on the year & place of marriage comes from my grandmother's Canadian birth cert, it's nice and detailed. But I doubt the registrar was inclined to check the truth of what he was told.

The one thing I can't work out is, if William & Alice were going to make up a pretend marriage, why did they choose Long Eaton, a place neither of them had any other connection with?

It's a mystery 

[Dizzifish]

Hello Sarah....

Welcome to Rootschat from me too.

In the course of doing my own tree I look at all possible scenarios even if it is only to rule that event out, and as you have already found out some things do come as a surprise.

So, not wanting to throw any spanners in the works etc this might be worth a mention.... from Derbyshire marriage index, there was this marriage that took place at Long Eaton.

Long Eaton St Lawrence - 1913
William Edward Walker & Lizzie Pidcock
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FreeBMD =
Marriages Sep 1913   
Pidcock  Lizzie  /Walker  Shardlow  7b 1163   
Walker William E  /Pidcock  Shardlow  7b 1163 
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Kind Regards

Sheila.

[CaroleW]

Intended address: 9 Wilton Place, Pendelton, Manchester

I think it should be 8 Milton Place which was her parents address - William Thompson b 1858 Salford and Margaret b 1861 Salford

[heatherjulie]

Hi
There is a marriage for
Alice Thompson and Herbert Jones in 1920 St Thomas Pendleton -the church where Margaret married, that you might want to check out.

Heather

[s4rah]

Thank you all for your input, I really appreciate it and it is lovely to see how friendly everyone is here 

[CaroleW]

That Walker/Pidcock marriage produced 2 children

Norman E b 1914 died 1954
Arthur T b 1916 died 1917