If someone is named on an incoming passenger list, arriving UK from South Africa in 1959, can I assume that she held a passport in the same name.?
Presumably she would have needed to show a marriage certificate before one was issued?
The lady was born in Kent (1904) and we are told her father took the family to Mauritius, when she was a child so that he could work there.
Somewhere along the line she met William McKenzie NEWLANDS, born in Scotland, but working as a tugmaster on the east coast of Africa and travelled as his wife. He had previously married in Scotland and I haven't found a divorce there.
Yesterday we received a birth certificate for their son, born in Hove, Sussex in 1947. William registered the birth, wording suggests that Emily was his wife, but I know not to rely on that! and the family sailed to South Africa a few months later.
I am looking for a divorce then a marriage, ...or could William have married in South Africa and conveniently forgotten about his family back in Scotland.?
Any advice would be most welcome please.
Presumably she would have needed to show a marriage certificate before one was issued?
The lady was born in Kent (1904) and we are told her father took the family to Mauritius, when she was a child so that he could work there.
Somewhere along the line she met William McKenzie NEWLANDS, born in Scotland, but working as a tugmaster on the east coast of Africa and travelled as his wife. He had previously married in Scotland and I haven't found a divorce there.
Yesterday we received a birth certificate for their son, born in Hove, Sussex in 1947. William registered the birth, wording suggests that Emily was his wife, but I know not to rely on that! and the family sailed to South Africa a few months later.
I am looking for a divorce then a marriage, ...or could William have married in South Africa and conveniently forgotten about his family back in Scotland.?
Any advice would be most welcome please.
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