Help - cant find a marriage anywhere

[rosie99]

I would say that the 1901 is Watford, compare the W with other W & H entries on the page.

[Battmanforever]

Mystery deepens

Having a search into more places to hopefully find something I found a Margaret Westwood on the 1939 register born in 1853 and listed as a widow along with another westwood whose name I'm unable to decipher and hasnt been transcribed either.

There is a corresponding freebmd birth for a Margaret Newman in 1853 in Kensington (there are 5 others in other locations but none that match an area I've so far seen in other records)

[rosie99]

There is a Margaret Westwood around the same age living in the same area as the 1939 one, a widow bn Lancashire in 1901 and 1911.  I think she may have died in 1940 same area.

ADDED I can't read the other name either

[rosie99]

Perhaps when William completed his 1901 return he put a shortened version of Wallingford and the enumerator read it as Wa(t)ford.  The 'Herts'  would have been added on the enumerators schedule after the original enumeration was done.

So should you be looking at Berkshire/Oxfordshire given Wallingfords proximity to the Thames boundary

[Battmanforever]

Best match for Oxfordshire is this one

Births Dec 1854   
Westwood    William        Wycombe    3a   336

Wycombe and Wallingford are not a million miles apart on a map. Its entirely possible registration was done in Wycombe although i would have thought a more local church would have been the place to do it.

Berks has nothing on freebmd

[rosie99]

Wycombe reg district covers lots of places  https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/wycombe.html

The birth you have given gives mmn Heather - James Westwood married Sarah Heather in 1844.
1861 living Wycombe RG09 /856 f98 p45 with parents
still with parents in 1871 RG10/1403 f104 p24