42 Oyster Street, Portsmouth electoral roll look up 1912/1913

[lizdb]

It looks very much as if Ellen Rosina Godwin, the sister of the Beatrice Maud Field nee Godwin, marries in 1914.  You could see who the witnesses were at that marriage - just maybe her sister was one of them either as Field or as Davis.  Long shot I know, she could have had anyone as her witnesses!

[lizdb]

From finding her and her family in 1939!

OK - I follow now!

[groom]

I really do think the Goodwin one is a coincidence. If that is her, as I said she lied about her father's name, her marriage status and her maiden name on the children's certificates, as if that's her she was a Field by marriage, not by birth.

[groom]

Births Sep 1888   
GODWIN    Beatrice Maud        Portsea    2b   481

[groom]

I think these threads need to be merged?

[avm228]

It would be interesting to see if the birthdate on the 1888 Godwin birth reg is that same as that for Beatrice M Davis per 1939.

[groom]

This is complicated isn't it? The only way to eliminate or confirm whether Beatrice Maud Godwin and Beatrice Maud Field are the same person is to get B M Godwin's birth certificate. If the date is the same then I agree, we have to assume, unless it is a huge co-incidence that it is. In which case, for some reason she needed to cover up the fact! Could it have been a bigamous marriage to Sydney Davis I wonder and that is why she kept the name Field?

[sgf28]

Sidney Davis was in Portsmouth in 1911,  that could be where they met and then Beatrice followed him to Stroud to get married

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWQQ-KZ2

Sidney Davis
Age    35
Birthplace    Randwick Stroud, Gloucestershire

[groom]

It is starting to fit! So now we need to find John Christopher M Field after his marriage and a possible death before 1912. I have a feeling there may be a cover up going on though. 

John Christopher M Field was born 1885 Portsmouth