Stuck. Nimmo/Waddell Bradford

[erinandi]

Am hoping someone might have some ideas.

Isabella Waddle/Waddell - I can find her birth and marriage in Sunderland -plus the birth of her children, the last one been in 1941. the trail then goes cold. I know the family moved to Bradford during the war. I can't find her death (under either surname). What could of happened to her?

[lizdb]

maybe she was widowed and remarried?

When was she born? Who did she marry?

[lizdb]

So , Waddell was her birth name, Nimmo her married name, not the other way round! (just found birth reg and marriage)

So:

Marriage
Jan/feb/Mar 1952
Bradford
2b 315
Isabella Nimmo / Anthony O'Connor

Death
Jun 1964
Dewsbury
2b 298
Isabella O'Connor
age 56

[CaroleW]

plus the birth of her children, the last one been in 1941.

If she is the Isabella Waddle born 1924 in Sunderland - she would only have been 17yrs old in 1941

[lizdb]

Looks like possibly a divorce rather than widowhood, as first hubby doesn't die till 1990, age 87

Death
March 1990
Bradford
4 457
Samuel Archer R Nimmo
age 87

[lizdb]

plus the birth of her children, the last one been in 1941.

If she is the Isabella Waddle born 1924 in Sunderland - she would only have been 17yrs old in 1941

I think her birth is

Apr/May/Jun 1903
Sunderland
10a 792
Isabella Waddle

that fits with the remarriage and death I found.

[CaroleW]

Hi Liz - beat me to it.  Was just about to post that the Isabella b 1924 married in 1944 to a different person

[erinandi]

Looks like possibly as divorce rather than widowhood, as first hubby doesn't die till 1990, age 87

Death
March 1990
Bradford
4 457
Samuel Archer R Nimmo
age 87

That's what confused me I knew she was not widowed as I remember meeting Samuel Nimmo in my childhood. I knew there was a family feud but did not know any more than that and there was never any talk about that side of the family, other than the family moved from Sunderland to Bradford during the war. I have no idea if the children stayed with their mum or stayed with their dad. A divorce in that time must have been rare?

[lizdb]

Getting the marriage cert to O'Connor might be interesting - to see if she says "previous marriage dissolved", or spinster or widow!