Leslie Bradford

[Kincaid444]

Good morning Igor and Rosie,

Sorry for the delay in getting back - I was trying to find Leslie Bradford who married Mary Denman in Hendon 1928 - I  order to try to find the right person, you suggested I try to get some particulars that would be on the marriage certificate -  I have discovered that his father, Arthur Bradford,  was deceased by the time of the marriage in 1928, and that he had followed the profession of commercial traveler.

I hope you are both well and keeping safe from the visa, which was not even on the horizon when I first posted . .

Kincaid

[IgorStrav]

Good morning Igor and Rosie,

Sorry for the delay in getting back - I was trying to find Leslie Bradford who married Mary Denman in Hendon 1928 - I  order to try to find the right person, you suggested I try to get some particulars that would be on the marriage certificate -  I have discovered that his father, Arthur Bradford,  was deceased by the time of the marriage in 1928, and that he had followed the profession of commercial traveler.

I hope you are both well and keeping safe from the visa, which was not even on the horizon when I first posted . .

Kincaid

Aha, thanks for the update Kincaid!

So

either
Leslie Bradford DID have a father Arthur Bradford, a commercial traveller (in which case Leslie cannot be the one who is the son of William Isaac Bradford and Ethel Moir Crawford/Crauford)
or
he was illegitimate and made up the name for his father (is this less likely in 1928 than it would be in the 19th century?) and Bradford is his mother's surname
or
Arthur Bradford was his stepfather, and he was not born Leslie Bradford but another surname

Maureen previously suggested that he wasn't born a Bradford.


There will be other possibilities, doubtless.

Kincaid - do you know who the witnesses were on the wedding certificate?  Sometimes they are family members which can give a clue.

[IgorStrav]

Assuming firstly that Leslie wasn't born under the name Bradford:

two baptisms for dob 10/4/1903:

Leslie Vernon Roberts
Birth   
10/04/1903
Baptism   
31/05/1903 England

Saint Paul, Hammersmith,
parents Alfred and Margaret

Leslie Morris Mitson
Birth   
10/04/1903
Baptism   
07/06/1903 Essex England

Great Wakering, St Nicholas
parents William Shall Mitson and Joyce

[IgorStrav]

For some reason the name Leslie became a lot more popular by 1904!

Many more Leslie baptisms. However Ancestry is only sorting them by baptism date of 10/4 which of course will be too early for our Leslie. 

Will look at the two initial 1903 ones first

[IgorStrav]

Assuming firstly that Leslie wasn't born under the name Bradford:

two baptisms for dob 10/4/1903:

Leslie Vernon Roberts
Birth   
10/04/1903
Baptism   
31/05/1903 England

Saint Paul, Hammersmith,
parents Alfred and Margaret

Looks like this Leslie died at sea in 1940

[IgorStrav]

Assuming firstly that Leslie wasn't born under the name Bradford:

two baptisms for dob 10/4/1903:


Leslie Morris Mitson
Birth   
10/04/1903
Baptism   
07/06/1903 Essex England

Great Wakering, St Nicholas
parents William Shall Mitson and Joyce

And this Leslie died in 1970.

Back to the drawing board.  But useful hopefully to rule out

[Kincaid444]

Good morning Igor . .  gosh, you don't hang about . . . I will get va check on the marriage witnesses as you suggest.

Many thanks

Kincaid . .

[MaureeninNY]

Good morning Igor . .  gosh, you don't hang about . . . I will get va check on the marriage witnesses as you suggest.

Many thanks

Kincaid . .

Also-could you see if there is an address listed for Leslie on the marriage cert?

Maureen