Trying to find a marriage with very little information

[bbart]

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

Thank goodness you posted that!!!  I had meant to set the end date for 1890...not 1900. 

Now I can quit searching for my nemesis, Sarah Jones!

[LyndseyB]

Thank you for all the information that has come in overnight.

I confirm that I got Amy’s birth place as being Langley from the 1921 census record.

My guess is the  reason there are no more entries for 130 Wickersley Road after 1965 is because the houses in that part of the street were demolished. Wickersley Road was a lot longer than it is now.

I think my next step is to order the death certificates for Benjamin Freeman in 1944 and Amy Freeman in 1973 and I will report back when I have got them.

I am particularly interested in who Amy was because the story that my Nan (Benjamin’s daughter Grace) told me as a child was that after Gt Grandma (Ann Brett) died in 1912 Benjamin went off with another woman  (I think she said it was a cousin – I can’t be sure, it was a long time ago – but definitely a relation) and they never saw him again. So there is a bit of a mystery there and it would be great to be able to solve it after all this time!

[softly softly]

Can I just throw this lady into the pot for other's to dismiss if possible.
Known facts first.

Name "Amy"
1921 born c 1885 Langley, believe this is Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire (Watford reg district)
1939 dob 10.8.1887
Death 10.8.1973

CORKE, AMY       mmn ORMROD 
GRO Reference: 1887  D Quarter in WATFORD  Volume 03A  Page 548

Found 1891 aged 3
Found 1901 aged 13
Found 1911 aged 21

Married Arthur Narroway mq 1913 Watford

Cannot find anything on either  Arthur or Amy after 1913 marriage. No Narroway/Corke births that I can find.

John

[jonwarrn]

Arthur Narroway died 11 April 1917, in France.
Private, 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment.
Reg. No. 31516

Soldiers' Effects has Amy, widow, as sole legatee.

[softly softly]

Arthur Narroway can be found as the "Adopted son" of  James & Mary E Marroway in 1911 Bushey, Herts, born c1887 Shepherd's Bush, London.

& as son in 1901 census still with James & Mary and born c1887 Shepherd's Bush

UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
Casualties
   
Arthur Narroway
Birth   
Bushey, Herts

John

[jonwarrn]

Arthur Narroway is in the World War I Pension Ledgers and Index Cards on ancestry.
His widow Amy does not appear to be in their index, which seems unusual to me.

[softly softly]

I know we have moved away from Amy but this is for info only.

Arthur Narroway was an "Adopted son" of James & Mary E.

Believe born as Hardby Yetta  ( could be Harry?)

1891 census
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W8FL-BT2

John

[bbart]

I have to burst your bubble...

Kathleen Amy Narroway, widow, daughter of Herbert James Corke, plasterer, marries Gardner Pennington in St. Giles, 22 Feb 1919.

[jonwarrn]

Perhaps the lady wasn't originally called Amy.
Not many registered with that name, as first or second, in Saffron Walden RD, 1885-90 (presuming that her Langley, Essex, place of birth is right in 1921). And only one or two of those were registered in the Sep quarter.