Trying to find a marriage with very little information

[jonwarrn]

Electoral registers show:
Benjamin and Amy Freeman living at 130 Wickersley Road, Battersea, Wandsworth
From 1918 to 1938.

Amy Freeman at 130 Wickersley Road, Battersea, from 1945 all the way up to 1965 (no more available!) No Benjamin.

Possible death
Sep 1973 Wandsworth 5e 1011
Freeman, Amy
d-o-b 10 August 1889

[jonwarrn]

Possible death
Sep 1973 Wandsworth 5e 1011

Hoping it is her, the death cert should (theoretically!) give Amy's maiden name and place of birth.

Though I wouldn't bet on it (It depends on the knowledge of the informant)

[bbart]

Amy Freeman at 130 Wickersley Road, Battersea, from 1945 all the way up to 1965 (no more available!) No Benjamin.

So this death, in ColC's list of possibilities times out well:

Deaths Dec 1944   
Freeman    Benjamin    75    Chelsea    1a   284

[jonwarrn]

Wandsworth Burial Search
https://enable.imagestor.co.uk/search/publicsearch2.aspx

Benjamin Freeman, burial 8 Nov 1944

Amy Freeman, burial 6 Sep 1973

[bbart]

Wandsworth Burial Search
https://enable.imagestor.co.uk/search/publicsearch2.aspx

Benjamin Freeman, burial 8 Nov 1944

Amy Freeman, burial 6 Sep 1973

Well done!
*gives a round of applause*

[jonwarrn]

Well, thanks, though I think all the hard work was done already!

[heywood]

Great finds 

[bbart]

Still no marriages though. 

I was wondering if he had a prior marriage that was preventing him from marrying (in the few years he would have time to do so), so have been slowly sifting through the FreeBMD entries, and have eliminated the more hopeful ones, with the exception of a 1900 marriage to Sarah Jones in St. Giles.  I would doubt this one as being him as it is far too close to the birth of his first child, but who knows!?
Perhaps a religious conflict?  Or he was just trying to live up to his surname, and remain a Free Man. 

[heywood]

  Benjamin was already married and left his family - see opening post.