Hi there,
I'm currently working on the family tree of my late mum's half brother. All are deceased.
My Grandma, Annie Elizabeth Prince was born in Leicester in 1891. By April 1914 she had married Albert Godson/Beckett, was heavily pregnant and was living in Stafford. Their son was born in May 1914 and a month later Albert died of tb..
His parents persuaded Annie to leave the baby with them and return to Leicester, where she eventually met and married my Grandfather.
The difficulty is that Albert's mother was, I believe, bigamously married to his father.
Annie used the surnames Prince, Godson and Beckett as her maiden name on the birth certificates of the children she and my grandfather had. I think Albert also alternated between Godson and Beckett.
I can find Albert on the 1901 census, living with the Cartwright family but can't find him in 1891 or 1911.
I have his death certificate and am wsiting on the marriage certificate. I believe Albert was born about 1886 in Stafford or Staffordshire but can't trace his birth.
I know that by the late 1940s, the son, who had been named Arthur Andrew Reginald Godson (known as Reg) was living with his mother and the children from her second marriage in Leicester and I know that he was part of a rather large skeleton in my grandma's cupboard as my mum spoke a bit about him. My dad met him but was not aware of his actual relationship to my mum and her siblings.
I can't find him on the 1921 census although he's listed on the 1939 register. He never married as far as I can tell.
Please can anyone find Albert or Arthur/Reg in the census or baptisms or births? Nothing comes up on GRO, free BMD, FindMyPast nor FS and I currently don't have Ancestry.
Thanks in advance.
June.
