Harry Edward de Gratte Maskens

[cando]

Sadly not all certificates have been digitised. An image of the 1921 Marriage Certificate is unavailable.  Your only option is to order a certificate for $28 which will be mailed.

Cheers
Cando

[cando]

Perhaps you have the following, if so you can ignore

MASKENS, Harry Edward Gratte, 22, bachelor, Marconi Operator, of 8 Yalding Road, Bermondsey, son of Harry Edward Gratte MASKENS, decd, a Sketch Artiste, married 22 Dec 1916 at the Registry Office, St Olave, to Lilian WARBY, 21, spinster, a Music Hall Artiste of 6 Catlin Street, Bermondsey, dau of William WARMBY a railway clerk.

I think I now understand......your grandmother is Doris Adeline EDWARDS who is a half sister to Harry Edward Gratte MASKENS.

Cando

[sparrett]

Sadly not all certificates have been digitised. An image of the 1921 Marriage Certificate is unavailable.  Your only option is to order a certificate for $28 which will be mailed.

Cheers
Cando

I did not know this.
How strange.  Wonder why.  Is  the digitising work in progress?

Sue

[oze]

Cando and Sue,

It does look like the family rumour was correct. Harry, my grandmother Doris’s half brother, is the same person who married Laura Summers. I may just order that marriage certificate one day anyway and send it to my mother. It also looks like Harry married three times.

Harry E G Maskens marries Lilian Warby, Dec 22, 1916, Greater London.
Harry Edward De Maskens marries Laura Summers, Dec 31, 1921, Australia.
Harry E De Maskens marries Lilian Chubb, Mar, 1936, Paddington.

There are so many questions as to what he was doing. Did he abandon Laura and his son in Queensland? Did Laura find out that he was married and send him away. She marries again in 1931.

Laura De Maskens
Philip O B Scott
1931
New South Wales
Petersham, New South Wales

Did Harry Edward William know anything about his father Harry? Do Harry Sr’s descendants know anything about him or about his life in England.
I have sent a request to another person through Mundia who has him on their family tree. I hope they see it and reply.
Thank you for your help.

Oze

[sparrett]

So--Just getting this straight in my head

Doris Adeline , your grandmother, named her daughter after her half brother's daughter from his first marriage. (I can see her name on the records)

Sue

[sparrett]

Just caught your last post

I hope you will not mind my saying so, but I would suggest the purchase of the certificate is a priority, rather than a "some day option"

It may turn out to be the piece of documentary evidence upon which proper research is based.

Likliehoods are not quite enough really.

Sue

[sparrett]

http://austcemindex.com/index.php?surname=De%20maskens&cemname=Tweed%20Heads%20Old%20General

Her headstone is interesting in that it uses her first married name.
Sue

I mentioned the above previously.

Laura died in 1958 and I cannot help wondering whether , although she was married to Philip SCOTT, Laura understood the marriage to MASKENS was still in place as Harry E.  MASKENS seems not have died until 1967 in England. Was she trying to say this through her headstone?


Sue

[Jennaya]

The headstone would have been organised by her son. Sometimes children see the marriage that produced them as more important than any subsequent ones.

What name was her death certificate in?

Regards
jennaya

[cando]

The headstone would have been organised by her son. Sometimes children see the marriage that produced them as more important than any subsequent ones.

What name was her death certificate in?

Regards
jennaya

Already posted by Sue reply#2.

Cando