I totally at odds with this particular problem. Help is needed to sort this out. I started to look into my grt. uncles wife's family. Albert Sidney Lane married Margaret Ellen Chown on Sept14th 1914 at the Parish Church in Blandford Forum, he was 21 she was 19. I have a photo of them taken either before their wedding or just after. He was in in uniform he was in the Dorsetshire regiment. In 1916 he was killed on the Somme 1st July and is buried in France. Her father is named as Henry Chown. When I started this search in 2009 I printed of an IGI for Margaret Ellen b.01/01/1895 and shows her father as Henry John Chown and mother Rose Margaret Brickell and she was born in Berwick St. John Wiltshire which is just on the border with Dorset. I found Rose Brickell was born in 1867 Enmore Green Dorset which is near Shaftsbury. I was looking for Margaret Ellen's birth on FBMD just to confirm a date and there isn't a record for her, well there is in a way I found one in Devon. After more digging I found that Rose Brickell had married in 1885 to Alfred Toogood in Tisbury (Wiltshire) Mar.qtr.5a 291. I found Rose and husband Alfred Toogood on the 1891 census, living in Enmore Green Shaftsbury with 2 young children, Walter b.1888 in Tisbury and Louisa b.1891 Shaftsbury. I was also looking for Henry Chown from Woodcutts Dorset. In 1901 he is living in Tidsbury, Tollard Royal with wife Rose( I assume she is using the name Chown) b.Shaftsbury daughter Ellen b. Newport Monmouthshire, dau. Jane 9months born in West Dean Salisbury Wiltshire. I then looked for Margaret Ellen with the surname Toogood and found a birth for Mar.qtr.1897 Bedwelty Monmouthshire 11a 105. Meanwhile, I was looking for a marriage for Henry Chown and Rose, I found it in the end, Sep. qtr. 1899 Rose Margaret Toogood and Henry Chown, New Forest 2b 1487. I have looked for a death for Alfred Toogood, but up until now have not found one. Now onto the 1911 census for Henry Chown from Woodcutts Dorset. Wife Rose from Shaftsbury, dau. Nellie Chown ( could be Ellen ?) aged 15 born Newport Monmouthshire, dau. Jennie Chown aged 11 b. West Dean Wiltshire. They have been married for 11 years and the younger children must definitely be Henry's. So the problem I have is this, was Rose Margaret Bickell Toogood Chown having an affair with Henry while her husband was alive? Is that why it was so long before they married? What happened to the two children she had with Alfred Toogood? What happened to Alfred Toogood?
I need a lie down!
Vonny
I need a lie down!
Vonny
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