Hello everyone, I'm back with a new conundrum.
An elderly friend asked me to look into her ancestry. She gave me some pointers: Her father divorced her mother when she was very young and married his best friend's wife. His best friend married her mother - a straight swap, so to speak. She told me that an aunt or great aunt was a Bowes-Lyons who was incarcerated in a Lunatic Asylum on the A2 outside south east London - she lived there for the rest of her life. She also told me she was a descendant of James Brindley, the engineer.
Margaret Mary was born 12/1/1933,but no mention where; she married twice, 1) Norman Hodgson, 2) Norman Mill, both of whom i knew.
Her father was a Ralph Horace Goodwin, *14/9/1897 , Bucknall, Staffs , + 10/1992 Hove, Sussex. He left her a hefty sum in his will.
His father was a John Brindley Goodwin, 1860-1933, Iron and Brass founder, married to (1885) Sarah Tunnicliff(e), 1864, Hanley, Staffs - 1934 Bucknall Staffs.
The Brindleys I can follow easily to the mid 1700, from Norton in the Moors, Staffs - ironically from the same neck of the woods as James Brindley, so there may well be a connection.
Try, as i might, i could not find a birth certificate for Margaret Mary Goodwin, born 1933, but I did find her , aged 8, at Doncaster, living with Edwin A Ellis, born 2/1/1905, works manager and her mother Margaret S Ellis, born 21.5.1905, the purported ex- wife of Ralph Horace Goodwin. this backs up Margaret's story to a certain extent. 'Ted' Ellis died in 1944. His 'widow' much later, in the 80s. I can find no marriage for these two.
I cannot find any marriage(s) for Ralph Horace Goodwin, although, I know his daughter by his 'second' marriage to Ted Ellis's ex-wife. I did note, however, that the census records for the time Margaret Mary have been 'closed'. - what on earth does this mean? Can anyone assist? I have trawled the ancestry records, Geneanet, MyH, - but to no avail! thank you!, Peter/Gabby
An elderly friend asked me to look into her ancestry. She gave me some pointers: Her father divorced her mother when she was very young and married his best friend's wife. His best friend married her mother - a straight swap, so to speak. She told me that an aunt or great aunt was a Bowes-Lyons who was incarcerated in a Lunatic Asylum on the A2 outside south east London - she lived there for the rest of her life. She also told me she was a descendant of James Brindley, the engineer.
Margaret Mary was born 12/1/1933,but no mention where; she married twice, 1) Norman Hodgson, 2) Norman Mill, both of whom i knew.
Her father was a Ralph Horace Goodwin, *14/9/1897 , Bucknall, Staffs , + 10/1992 Hove, Sussex. He left her a hefty sum in his will.
His father was a John Brindley Goodwin, 1860-1933, Iron and Brass founder, married to (1885) Sarah Tunnicliff(e), 1864, Hanley, Staffs - 1934 Bucknall Staffs.
The Brindleys I can follow easily to the mid 1700, from Norton in the Moors, Staffs - ironically from the same neck of the woods as James Brindley, so there may well be a connection.
Try, as i might, i could not find a birth certificate for Margaret Mary Goodwin, born 1933, but I did find her , aged 8, at Doncaster, living with Edwin A Ellis, born 2/1/1905, works manager and her mother Margaret S Ellis, born 21.5.1905, the purported ex- wife of Ralph Horace Goodwin. this backs up Margaret's story to a certain extent. 'Ted' Ellis died in 1944. His 'widow' much later, in the 80s. I can find no marriage for these two.
I cannot find any marriage(s) for Ralph Horace Goodwin, although, I know his daughter by his 'second' marriage to Ted Ellis's ex-wife. I did note, however, that the census records for the time Margaret Mary have been 'closed'. - what on earth does this mean? Can anyone assist? I have trawled the ancestry records, Geneanet, MyH, - but to no avail! thank you!, Peter/Gabby
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