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Robert Claytons death ??

Deaths Dec 1921 (>99%)
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Clayton Robert W 58 Sculcoates 9d 207

I think my brother may have the marriage certificate in his loft somewhere!
I'll ask him tomorrow, although he's done more research than me & said he's drawn a blank too? No idea were WARD comes in?

Then the birth of Charles W Clayton I found with mothers maiden name of ward is your uncles?

I would start with buying the Clipson marriage cert to see what it says on it.

My Mum always said her maiden name was Clayton. Her brother (Charles Wilson Clayton) was born in March 1920. His father Robert Clayton died around 1921, I don't know if he officially adopted Mum or if she was brought up to think he was her Dad. My Aunt Anne was born in Aug 1922 & her father was Albert Clipson, it looks like she was pregnant when they married. ( I can remember Grandad Clipson). It seems strange that Alice used the name Dixon when she married Albert. Had she taken the name of her first love/husband who was the real father of my Mum??

No Robert Clayton to any Alice marriages to be seen.

Then there is this entry for Charles??mothers maiden name as Ward??

Births Jun 1920 (>99%)
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Clayton Charles W Ward Sculcoates 9d 518

She seems to have married Albert clipson as a Dixon.

Marriages Jun 1922 (>99%)
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Clipson Albert Dixon Sculcoates 9d 344
DIXON Alice Clipson Sculcoates 9d 344
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The same year as Annie was born,who has the mothers maiden name down as Clayton.

Hi Janet, This is a bit of a puzzle.
It was my Aunt, who I spoke to today, who said her mum Alice (Hawksley )was born in Wales & she died in the early 1940's aged about 50. I think her father was called William, he was a mariner who died at sea (Can't find any records though). Alices' mother died quite young, soon after giving birth-don't know any details! When her father re-married Alice decided to leave home & apparently she moved up north. That's when things get a bit vague- she had my Mum (also called Alice) in Sept 1916, but Mum never had a birth certificate. I think this is because of the confusion with her surname, as Alice Hawksley married more than once. She came to Hull with my Mum & married Robert Clayton,and had a son Charles in 1920. Robert Clayton died & she then married Albert Clipson and had a daughter Anne.. My brother said there was some sort of scandal when she became pregnant with my Mum in early 1916 & that she was living in Durham/Newcastle area, and that the father may have been called DIXON. a young man who died in France in WWI aged only 18 years.
I would love to find my Mums birth certificate, but don't know for certain who her father was. The name WARD has also been mentioned.

Trying to find out where Alice went to live when she left Wales. She left home in her late teens I think & moved to the north of England-Newcastle/Durham/Hutton-le-hole area. Sometime before 1920 she moved to Hull with her daughter,also called Alice ,who was born in 1916, and who was my Mum.