Owen Robert Colverd

[jorose]

Picture of her mother:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229247645?searchTerm=%22Addie%20Leigh%22&searchLimits=

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/230484269?searchTerm=%22Adeline%20Leigh%22&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc
Harold George first sought to divorce Adeline in 1909
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15967966?searchTerm=%22Adeline%20Leigh%22&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc
but it looks like the divorce wasn't fully finalised until 1921 - perhaps this is why there are two marriages to C.A. Fisher



As to Marjorie, in 1934 she was using the name "Marjorie Leigh" and had been in India as an actress
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229213279?searchTerm="Marjorie%20Leigh"

(note she is listed as the daughter of "H. George of Waverley")

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/247202521?searchTerm=%22Marjorie%20Leigh%22&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc|||l-state=New+South+Wales
 - Mrs M.E. Wallace, aka Marjorie Leigh, was in Rhodesia in 1936 with her husband who managed the Jumbo Mine

So perhaps we're looking for a marriage to Mr Wallace, if it exists, around 1934-1936?

[sparrett]

Marjorie Emma Wallace (is this her?)
In1943
Subdistrict   Narrabeen
New South Wales
Warringah
She lived at Palm Beah Rd Palm Beach. Performed home duties and no others of the surname with her
Sue

[sparrett]

Yes, that is her because at the same address in 1943 is Owen COLVERD, company director.

Sue

[majm]

Mr Owen COLVERD, Company Director, he embarked at Durban, and was a Cabin passenger on board the Ceramic arriving 25 September 1936, to NSW.  He was aged 43, single, and his last country of permanent residence was England.    Also onboard was Mrs M.E. Wallace, destined for Sydney.

http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/12076682/1

JM

[majm]

http://soda.naa.gov.au/record/12056117/1

Mrs Marjorie WALLACE known as Leigh ... embarked Bombay for Sydney, arriving June 1934.  Sydney Address :
Bundah, 2 Goldie Ave, Waverley.
 
According to Sands Sydney Suburban Directories, 1932-33,  Mrs Fanny GEORGE was at 2 Goldie St, Waverley.
http://cdn.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/learn/history/archives/sands/1930-1933/1932-1933-part8.pdf  (scroll through, around actual page number  900 (top left hand corner)

JM

[majm]

Electoral Roll 1934, WENTWORTH, polling Bondi.

Fanny GEORGE, 2 Goldie Ave, home duties
Harold GEORGE, 2 Goldie Ave, accountant.

JM

[sparrett]

If I am doing the dates correctly, she was still Mrs SIMMONDS when she became Mrs WALLACE (if there was in fact a marriage )
Arrived to stay with her parents in June 1934 -as WALLACE/LEIGH -which was only  a year after her marriage to SIMMONDS .

Sue

[majm]

   That's how I would read it too.

GRO  Vol 4a page 1315 June quarter, 1933.
Marjorie E GEORGE and SIMMONDS, Romford, Essex
Edwin C SIMMONDS, and GEORGE, same reference info.   

Hi Ros,
Rootschat's 'Cupoflife' suggested that I ask you if you could supply me with an image of the divorce papers of Marjorie Emma Judd and Raymond Athelstane Judd #1032/1930.

This lady was my father's (Edwin Charles Simmonds) first wife - and it turns out the union (in London, UK) was probably bigamous. She seems to have led a string of besotted men a merry dance! She left him after only 7 months, and he had to wait seven years to marry my mother.

I'd be most grateful for any help you can give me.

JM

[PAFC]

I am astonished at the amount of information I've woken up to this morning! And so grateful for the interest and the research work of all of you here at RootsChat. I now have a far clearer picture of the maverick behaviour of both the 'Leighs', and I can try inputting some of this fresh information into Ancestry in case there is anything else. I still have no picture of Marjorie; she was, according to Dad's memoir - which I am currently transcribing - extremely beautiful. And from what I have learned so far an utterly unscrupulous (and literal!) gold-digger. Thank you all so very much.