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Hmm.

I still can't figure out.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1197862

This time it *is* the very exact same William Robson Cullen, right?

I.e., this is a thread about the exact same subject matter -- William Robson Cullen 1896 -- as that other one?

If you read Janet's reply early in your thread -- it says:

CULLEN, William Inmate Single M 15 1896 Carpentry Learner Wilts Marlboro
119 Coppenhegen ST

If you google that address, google asks (as you knew it would [edit: that meant "as one knew it would" ;)] ) whether you meant "119 Copenhagen St". And then it offers you 3 sites that refer to it as the Islington Home for Boys and give further info.

Janey
Thank you for the information, but i was following up the information from Janets reply, i was ony asking what the meaning of institution was, but had not presumed to google it as you suggested.

It appears William Robson Cullen had been married before he married Dora Jane Brown, searching the marriages i can find 12 other marriages, how can i narrow the search down so i can get the correct marriage certificate, is there an easy way.

If you search for births with the two surnames in each couple, and there are births after the date of the marriage to Brown, that would rule out that particular couple, anyway.

--- No, sorry, that won't work -- he and she were well past childbearing age when they married. Oh well, may be a useful tip for another time!

In this case, you could take each couple, try to identify their births to get their ages, and try to identify the death of the wife in the couple to see whether she died before the marriage to Dora. Again, it could rule out some marriages, but if the people in question were around the same age as yours, many of them would have died by 1971 undoubtedly anyway.

Thanks for that info,Ive been looking at a Mabel A Lawrence who married a William R Cullen in Lewisham in 1947, seeing that he married Dora Jane Brown in Lewisham and he was living there I thought that would be a good guess but Mabel died the same year as Dora married William 1971, have also looked for children from that marriage, but can't find any. has any one got any ideas.

Actually, that could be a good match -- the scenario being that he and his wife were long estranged but he could not remarry until her death.

If this *is* the Mabel A Lawrence who married Cullen:

Name: Mabel Alice Cullen
Birth Date: 13 Jan 1881
Death Registration Month/Year: 1971
Registration district: Lewisham
Inferred County: London
Volume: 5d
Page: 631

-- I checked the image and the death was registered in Q3 1971. The marriage was in Q4:

Name: William R Cullen
Spouse Surname: Brown
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1971
Registration district: Lewisham
Registration county (inferred): Greater London, Kent, London
Volume Number: 5d
Page Number: 586


The only problem is that Mabel seems a little old for William.

Yes should would have been around 90 when she died, and that does seem a bit of a difference, have to keep digging.