Grandfather jailed for bigamy - missing link

[M3D1C_Dan]

Brilliant

The death index entry is for Gordon Richard.

Think I would be getting the death certificate as evidence Dan.  Presume that will be the same as the index entry and if the burial records are different then I think that clinches it.

Got it. It is Gordon Richard Markinson, as on the index. Not sure where the other index states it was Gordon Roland Markinson though. 

[hasta]

Not sure where the other index states it was Gordon Roland Markinson though. 

The burial records at Harehills Cemetery for Gordon and Nora as quoted above by ljuk

[Milliepede]

Now I'm again because if anyone in the family had visited the grave wouldn't they have noticed a different name? 
Gordon died first so presumably Norah would have provided the memorial details.
An intentional clue left behind perhaps!

[alpinecottage]

The cemetery record will possibly/probably be what appears in the cemetery register recording who's buried in what grave etc, not what is on the gravestone.  There may not even be a headstone, though it would be good to know what, if anything, it says.

[ljuk]

Harehills Cemetery, Leeds
Grave Section U7 (Unconsecrated) / Grave Number 843
MARKINSON, Gordon Roland / buried 1 April 1971 / Age 70
MARKINSON, Norah / buried 15 January 1975 / Age 67

This came from the transcribed burial registers which are on the Yorkshire Indexers subscription database. Those transcriptions (for Harehills) are complete between 08 Nov 1908 & 29 May 1987.

Records after 29 May 1987 are computerised and held by Leeds City Council.

[carol8353]

By the way neither of these two left a will,a friend of mine went to Holborn wills office today and I asked him to check.

[ljuk]

So Dan, you say Gordon's death certificate only shows St James' Hospital as his final address ... maybe it would be worth getting Norah's death certificate as well to find her final address? And the name (if related) of the informant would also be useful.

Name: MARKINSON, Norah
Registration district: Leeds
Year of registration: 1975
Quarter of registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Date of Birth: 22 April 1907
Volume no: 5
Page no: 0043

Hopefully soon I'll get to Leeds and start looking at those electoral registers for you ... so far I only have Duxbury Street as an address for them in 1945?

[ljuk]

So Gordon & Norah had 3 sons born between 1947 & 1951 who I can't name here for obvious reasons but their birth registrations can be found. Have you been able to talk to them or their families? Presumably one of them is your father (grandfather?).

[ljuk]

So Dan, you say Gordon's death certificate only shows St James' Hospital as his final address ...

I'm not sure about that ...

In one post (on YI ... 28-09-2013) you say "There's nothing on Gordon's death certificate to state where he was living at the time of his death, just the hospital he died in: St James Hospital, Leeds, West Yorkshire."

And in another (on Genes Reunited in 2012) you say "Death Certs: Gordon Richard Markinson, Retired Railway Platelayer, 7 Barrowby Crescent, Leeds. Reg date: 26th March 1971 Leeds"

What is actually entered on the death certificate?