colen family

[lyn10]

Hi I am helping a friend to trace her family tree, and have hit a brick wall her great grandfather comes from Belgium, and possibly her grandmother as well as we can not find her on the bmds, can anyone help us were to find them.

GGrandfather name Louis Francis Colen 1874 Belgium
Grandmother Name Emelia Colen  Married John Hughes In 1939 Woolwich that is all we have on her

Can anyone help please

[heywood]

Hello,

Free BMD has the marriage
December quarter 1909 Woolwich 1d 2042

Louis Francis Colen and Emily Maude Poffley.

They are in 1911 census indexes

Regards

Heywood

[heywood]

Emily is at 1901. Piece 565; Folio 119 Page 11
With her parents Frederick and Lizzie and siblings in Plumstead

As you say births to this couple can't be found 

What was his occupation?

[lyn10]

hi Heywood  I have that bit of info on louis colen that is his second wife as we known that emelie had a sister and she was born in 1902 and that Louis and emily Poffley had no children.

lyn

[lyn10]

sorry Louis colen occuption by the 1911 census is  Daughtsman and tool designer

[heywood]

hi Heywood  I have that bit of info on louis colen that is his second wife as we known that emelie had a sister and she was born in 1902 and that Louis and emily Poffley had no children.

lyn

I thought you couldn't find any of the family.
So presumably the two sisters were in Belgium in 1911?

[lyn10]

sorry about that with all the little  info i have got on them i have not long found her sister death record which gave me her date of birth, it took a bit of time finding her because of the spelling of her name Philomana

lyn

[heywood]

Yes I saw Philomena's marriage - in her late 30s. She was with her father and Emily in electoral rolls but Emelie would be married.

I just realised that you have her marrying John Hughes in 1939 but I see her marrying John Robert's in 1931. 

[lyn10]

yes i saw them as well that how I found their father name but have not found emelie(emily) any where
not even her death to found out when she was born.  Sorry it is john Roberts and not john hughes as both of her grandmother was called emily