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[CaroleW]

His birth wasn't registered with Leonard - just Leyland so it must have been added at a later date

[margaret elizabeth]

Yes I thought that as well I wonder why he did that

[groom]

A Leonard Layland Race b May 1918 died in 1996 in Sussex

Did he marry twice? There is a marriage of a Leonard L Race in Hastings Sussex in 1966.
Dec quarter Volume 5H Page 553. I won't name the bride as she could be alive still.

[margaret elizabeth]

Someone found 2 marriages with 2 different ladiesventry  my uncle Leyland was born in Manchester lived in conventry and hastings he died 1996 in  Hastings [ st Leonards on the sea

[groom]

That is why I wondered if there was a second marriage as the 1966 one was in Hastings. Or could that be his son?

Someone found 2 marriages with 2 different ladies

I'm not sure that the 1940 marriage is yours as that was a Leslie Race to a Lillian Oldham, they would have had the child you found born there. If you are sure he married Lillian Oldham, I think it is the Coventry one as that was to a Leonard Race. Unless of course he changed his first name again. 

I doubt if he would have married two women with the same name. The only way to be really sure would be to get both marriage certificates and perhaps the Hastings one as well.

[margaret elizabeth]

Hi Leyland race deffo when born and christened had only the one name of Leyland as I have now his birth cert born 1918 Manchester so he must have at some stage  added Leonard ,