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I know - that's what was in your opening post and what I have been using as a premise:


Marriages Jun 1916
Dixon Pollie Parker Hemsworth 9c 282
Parker Norman Dixon Hemsworth 9c 282


but what I'm saying is that someone born in 1900 would have been just turned 16 for that marriage.

(Can you explain the Polly Dixon death please??? I do not find the record of it in 1928 that you cited. I think it's irrelevant, but I'd like to know what it says -- when, where, **her age**.)

Now, I'd think this more likely to be the Norman Ernest Parker born in Harrogate/Knaresborough:


Marriages Mar 1927

Parker Norman E Woolf Knaresbro' 9a 189
WOOLF Mary PARKER Knaresbro' 9a 189

And look what I found:

Marriages Jun 1917
Dixon Mary Woolf Newcastle T. 10b 123
Woolf John M Dixon Newcastle T. 10b 123


But ...

Births Sep 1917
Woolf William J V Dixon Newcastle T. 10b 194
Births Jun 1919
Woolf John J Dixon Newcastle T. 10b 81
Births Mar 1921
Woolf Mary N Dixon Newcastle T. 10b 104

... but ...

Deaths Sep 1917
WOOLF William J V 0 Newcastle T. 10b 136
Deaths Mar 1922
Woolf Mary N 1 Newcastle T 10b 40

And ...

Deaths Dec 1923
WOOLF John M 28 Newcastle T. 10b 155


The location fits with the Dixon-Angus couple info ...

One child was "Mary N". I wonder what the "N" was for.


The other child, John J Woolf, seems to have survived.

? Name: John J Woolf
Spouse: Ellen Wilkinson
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1941
Registration district: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Registration county (inferred): Northumberland
Volume Number: 10b
Page Number: 255
(two children of the marriage)


Could he have been left with family in Newcastle when Mary Dixon Woolf married Norman E Parker? Or ... if any of this were to be a true story, and given the date of Dorothy Parker's birth ... when she left John Woolf to live with Norman Parker?


Births Mar 1895
Woolf John Moses Newcastle T. 10b 122

-- a GR member has him in their tree.

Update ... sent PM's as suggested awaiting replies

Robert

Another small detail from the diary search Mary (whomever) visited in Canada in Nov Dec 1976 so by reasonable deduction she must have dided in 1977 or after

Robert

For all those wonderful people out there THANK YOU I hav just been talking to my wife's 2nd cousin .... as usual Janey what can I say but Brilliant.

Again thank you

Yay! (Success rhymes with Nelles, I see. ;) )

Does this mean my house of cards withstood scrutiny??

Naturally, Janey, was there any doubt, with such an astute researcher at it, and there does appear to be some Nelles (or variation thereof) in the mix when I find out the entire relationships will update everyone ... the Polly connection seems to have been a red herring (or for Janey "a lonely little turbot" but there again she may not be old enough to remember the quote) The Polly I found did die as Parker.

Again all thank you

Robert

It would appear that Mary Dixon Woolf/Parker's mothers' maiden name was Nailis hence the "Nelles" connection.

Just an update

Robert

Urgh.

Now about this lonely little turbot ... I know about the lonely little petunia in an onion patch ... Oh, yes, of course.

"last, lonely, unloved, unattractive little turbot clinging on by its fingernails to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland."

Fish makes me puke. And I'll tell you, those government contracts of mine, a decade or two ago, there was so much fish wars stuff I had to do ... I still have an inch-thick lexicon somewhere of all the lingo for the cases at the Intl Court of Justice about the dispute with France, and what the Latin and French name for every b'dy species of fish in every straddling stock is -- and a couple of pretty maps of the demarcation lines on the Grand Banks taken from the books I didn't return, and framed and hanging on my kitchen wall. I liked the colours. ;) But fish makes me puke.

Didnt know they put fish in stocks ... did they also throw rotten vegetables at them.

Robert