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Have you looked for the marriage at FreeBMD, Natasha?

No luck on a marriage ... but this is Ethel's birth:

Births Sep 1889
Wheatley Ethel Caroline F Kensington 1a 143

not looked at marriage on Free BMD

Natasha xx

Well, that's the first thing to do once you have the parents' names -- find their marriage. Then the marriage certificate will tell you their fathers' names.

It's the father of Richard Wells Brown you are really wanting to identify.

Problem is, I've tried every trick, and don't find a marriage. If it was not long before Eric's birth, it likely isn't transcribed yet, so it's a matter of reading the images ...

Or they may not have been married. ;)

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I just did a little searchie at FreeBMD to see what quarters might be missing for surname Brown.

Searched for John Brown marriages 1911-1925, figuring there'd be at least a few of them each quarter. There are at least a few dozen of them each quarter.

All is cool up to 1920. Then these quarters are missing.

Sep 1920
Dec 1920
Sep 1921 - scratch that one, Wheatley is transcribed for that quarter
Dec 1923

Could you have the bad luck of the marriage having happened in one of those quarters?

I'm still on slow-speed because I haven't gone to the post office to pick up my new modem. It takes me forever to download images. But I did the groundwork here ...

Any volunteers?? Only four quarters! To look for the marriage of

Richard Wells Brown (almost certainly under Brown, not Wells)
Ethel Caroline Francis Wheatley

^^ fixed that - I put Lucy Wheatley at first.

Wisest to search for Ethel, I would think.

Searched quarter by quarter and nothing showing under Wheatley or Brown.

Sep 1920
Dec 1920
Dec 1923

Thanks!

Time to scratch head ... The only thing I can think of is that she was previously married, of course -- she was well over 30 when Eric was born -- but I've tried looking for such a marriage, with no luck ...

Thanks for your help, do any of you have any other suggestions?

Thanks again

Natasha x

P.S had one more thought, do you think it could be that they was not married???

Natasha xx

It's possible they weren't married -- but still possible she had been previously married and then married Richard Wells Brown under her first married surname. Just can't find a likely candidate, though.

I'm noticing there are still things untranscribed that would prevent finding a match-up.

For instance, I searched for marriages of any Richard Brown to any Ethel.

I got results like:

Marriages Mar 1917
Haddock Ethel Brown Aston 6d 520

-- no groom in the list.

There doesn't seem to be a matching Brown transcribed.

I'm not suggesting that's your Ethel at all -- just that there could still be untranscribed couples, or halves of couples, and that's preventing us from finding the marriage.

Patience may be needed!

Thanks Evie

Natasha x