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you ladies [people] give your selves a big thankyou you have all done very well that's
PATCHEM,KATHLEENBELL,SYLVIAINCANADA this finishes the SKITT tree that my wife june ask me to do [her mum was maud skitt sister of olga]. I can now go back to 1592--- to now.
its a sad tale as david does not want to be found june my wife, ginny her sister and david were very very close even when we were courting 1965/6, I told junes mum if I saw him I would break his legs for the trouble he caused even now at 73 he would feel my wrath by hell he would, no excuses NONE.
anyway thank a lot

Kenneth's marriage from Yorkshire bmd site ..... shows where he was married

Yorkshire Marriage indexes for the years: 1943

WARDMAN Kenneth SKITT Olga St James, Seacroft Leeds CE62/B/26

Here is the record from the 1939 Register mentioned by patchem

Wardman Household (6 People) 2 Birch Avenue , Leeds, Yorkshire (West Riding), England

John ? Wardman 09 May 1885 Confectioner (Bread & Coo
Alice Wardman 06 Jun 1895 Unpaid Household Dutie
Bateman C Wardman 24 Aug 1915 Confectioner (Bread
Constance Ashton (Wardman) 10 Jan 1920 Shop Assistant (Books
Kenneth Wardman 05 Jun 1923 Shop Assistant Gown
Phyllis Wilde (Wardman) 13 May 1931 At School

The two daughters are shown under their married name, along with the date of their marriage, or the date the Register was updated ...........

Constance Wardman married 15-04-47
Phyllis Wardman married 18-09-50



FYI ............ the 1939 Register was used as the basis for the NHS when that was introduced in 1947, and was regularly updated re deaths and women's marriages until ca 1991.

His parents?
Marriages Mar 1918
Bolton Alice Wardman Preston 8e 845
Wardman John F H Bolton Preston 8e 845

There is only one Kenneth Wardman shown born in 1923 on free bmd.

He and some family can be found in 1939 (I do not have full access)

Possible death?
Kenneth Wardman
Death Age: 67
Birth Date: 5 Jun 1923
Registration Date: Jul 1990
Registration district: Wandsworth
Inferred County: Greater London
Volume: 15
Page: 789

The Huddersfield birth is the only one I can see with mother's maiden name Bolton.

Perhaps they moved to Leeds when he was small so people assumed he was born there?

EDIT - Kenneth and Olga married in Leeds so perhaps that is where the confusion comes from:-

First name(s) OLGA
Last name SKITT
Marriage quarter 3
Marriage year 1943
Registration month -
MarriageFinder™ OLGA SKITT married
Kenneth Wardman
Spouse's last name Wardman
District Leeds
District number -
County Yorkshire
Country England
Volume 9B
Page 622

Kath. x

Could you tell us who his Mother and Father were, or whether he had any siblings?

This is his marriage reference, you could apply to buy the marriage certificate for possible age for him and name of his Father, to help in identifying him:

Marriages Sep 1943
Skitt Olga Wardman Leeds 9b 622
Wardman Kenneth Skitt Leeds 9b 622

You mention 'Bolton' so this birth?
Births Sep 1923
Wardman Kenneth Bolton Huddersfield 9a 424

Kenneth wardman born about 1920, I have him b bramley Nr leeds but a relative from new Zealand says he was b Huddersfield 1923 his mum was Bolton, I have found this
BUT my mum in law maud crann she d 1985 always said leeds? Kenneth marr olga skitt she was b 1918-2000, marr during WW2 to Kenneth don't know where.
Olga was the younger sister of my mum in law as there is now no one around to ask she is my wifes aunt and she knows nothing,i think he was a gunner in the RAF, he left her some time in the 1950s they got divorced, she lived in leeds they had a son davidb b 1945 leeds david left ihis home about 1970 and was never seen again the salvation army found him but he told them to keep quite about 1990. if you good people could help it would be great
kind regards john
I am going to bed now