John S Mussell Should be dead !!!!

[Jessbowbag]

Merry

Sheila seems to have her down as born with that surname HANDSCOMB.

Sheila - that would be rational - Steyning is just outside Brighton.

[Jessbowbag]

Hang on a mo!! If (as Sheila says)

Violet M E Handscomb born April 1926 <<<<<< Where has that come from??

then
Violet Mabel Mussell
born 1 Aug 1906
died Aug 1996
Age 90
in Hove , Sussex
surely can't be her

im confused

[Jools in Scarborough]

im confused

Violet M E Handscomb born April 1926 <<<<<< Where has that come from??

JESS - Message no 12 in this thread!! Jools

Want to share a headache pill with me Jess??

[Jessbowbag]

do you actually have the marriage cert for the bishops stortford wedding?

Jools , Jools, Jools, yes i realise that , BUT I meant , where did it come from originally? Arggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Jools in Scarborough]

Jools , Jools, Jools, yes i realise that , BUT I meant , where did it come from originally? Arggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Pass - and of course we can't double check year since ancestry births currently have indigestion. *goes for pill and lie down ***

[Jessbowbag]

hang on , hang on, have I lost the plot?

Marriages Sep 1911

BAILEY Rose F Wandsworth 1d 1300
Barrell Lillian M Wandsworth 1d 1300
Handscomb Albert V E Wandsworth 1d 1300
Wickens William H Wandsworth 1d 1300

is this the marriage you mean Sheila - her parents marriage?

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Merry

Sheila seems to have her down as born with that surname HANDSCOMB.

Sheila - that would be rational - Steyning is just outside Brighton.

Yes, but didn't she also marry a Mr Baker?? (see the original post)

[Jools in Scarborough]

Don't think so Jess. Sheila's message 12 has that year - I think (hope) she's put Violet M instead of Rose F.

[Jessbowbag]

Beeble beeble * I want to be tree*

[Jools in Scarborough]

Beeble beeble * I want to be tree*

ROFLMAO

[Jessbowbag]

so ,
we think she was born Handscome, married a Baker ( a Mr Baker rather than a bloke that makes bread) he shuffled off , she went back to her maiden name and married the Mussell man? ( thats not an especially strong man, nor a shellfish)

[Jools in Scarborough]

Care to join me Jess?

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Yes, but she was only 21!! I very much doubt she was divorced (you couldn't divorce for a few years after marriage - reduced to a year around the time I was divorced, I think). So she might have been a war widow (or an ordinary widow, of course). She may have married in the name Baker and the indexer picked up her maiden name from her father's details on the cert??

[Jessbowbag]

Dunno anymore- so tired I'm not able to focus.

Off to stick my head in the oven like John, I think. Actually, I'll just go to bed and try this again tommorow if you havent cracked it.

I'd started tracking the marriage of the 'Melodious' daughter- think i got part way thru 1970 before ancestry got grumpy

[Jools in Scarborough]

The birth - from ancestry
AMJ 1926 HANDSCOMB Violet M E mmn BAILEY Croydon 2a/403

Marriage
JAS 1947 HANDSCOMB Violet M to MUSSELL B Stortford 4b/66
JAS 1947 MUSSELL John S to BAKER or HANDSCOMB B Stortford 4b/66

UPDATE: I have just checked all the HANDSCOMB(E) marriages from 1940 through 1946 - not a sausage for Violet.

[Jessbowbag]

I wonder why on earth - havent gone to bed quite yet- if they then went down to Brighton to live - why they married in Hertfordshire?

[Jessbowbag]

Right - the tuneful daughter married in Q1 1974 , in Brighton to a
AV G*******

Note to self:
Buried nor cremated

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

I've searched 1941 - 1947 inc looking for a marriage for Violet to a Mr Baker, without any luck.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Oops, I see Jools already did that! pmsl!! (I am watching a film at the same time!)

[Jessbowbag]

Of course the daughter doesnt appear in her married name on 192.com - its distinctive enough too