colen family

[heywood]

Does your friend not know her grandmother's death. Online death indexes have a cut off at 2007, I think.

Do you have Emilie's  marriage certificate? Was she older than Philomena?

[avm228]

As Emelia Maria Roberts, married woman, she was one of the executors of her father's will in 1959 (the other being Emily Maud Colen, widow).

[avm228]

They were John C and Emelie P Roberts in the 1954-59 electoral rolls (30 Warland Rd, Woolwich).

[lyn10]

no, that side of the family was not close, she has little memory of them, as when she was 5 years old her parents  spilt up and her mum's  mum  looked after her, she does not even known  if her parents are still alive. She will have to get their marriage ceft when she get back from Holiday 

[heywood]

The certificate may give a bit of information but perhaps not much.
It doesn't look as though Belgian records are easily available.

[lyn10]

ok thanks for the help, I will have to wait for her to come home