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This is what the lady kindly found me

Over the last hour and a half I have checked all comparable ages,and then some,of Hewitts to your armstrong lady coming into the country between 1934 and 1937 and this is the only one headed for yorkshire that I can see.
Going to a hotel in he says,but I cant read where,and he has a wife and 2 small children in tow.

Name: George Banard Hewitt
Birth Date: abt 1903
Age: 33
Port of Departure: Montrã©AL, Quã©Bec, Canada
Arrival Date: 11 Nov 1936
Port of Arrival: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Ports of Voyage: Montreal
Ship Name: Kenbane Head
Search Ship Database: Search the 'Kenbane Head' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Head Line
Official Number: 142492

Thanks all for your responses.
I tried this message firstly on the 'Trying to find' board. A lady has tried to help me and told me to also try on the 'tips' board hence my msg on here.
Neither of the twins took their biological fathers surname. However my grandfather was given it as his middle name 'Frederick Hewitt Armstrong'
I have checked both twins births certs and they say father unknown.
Can the local records office be accessed online or do you visit in person?
We do not know they year when he was shipped away but we do know he returned and came looking for my grandfather when he was 14. This would be around 1936/1937. A lady has completed a search for me on Ancestry and found something interesting but not sure if it is coincidence. The trouble is I dont want to run with it and it end up being the wrong man!

Hi

If there was a court payment or a bastardy bond you should find it in the county archives where they were born.
Also look at the passenger lists on ancestry.co.uk for Canada.
What year are you looking at ?

Info for other helpers:

Aberford was in Tadcaster registration district

Births from freebmd:

Births Mar 1924 (>99%)
Armstrong Dorothy M Armstrong Tadcaster 9c 1736
Armstrong Frederick H Armstrong Tadcaster 9c 1736

Have checked and they were only registered under Armstrong, not Hewitt, this would mean parents unmarried, so I think that father would only be named on birth certs if he was present when the births were registered. Might be worth getting hold of one of the birth certs to see.

Marriage ref for Mary Ellen Armstrong and James Wardman, also from freebmd:

Marriages Dec 1929 (>99%)
Armstrong Mary E Wardman Tadcaster 9c 2088
Barber Florence M Batterham Tadcaster 9c 2088
Batterham Walter Barber Tadcaster 9c 2088
Wardman James Armstrong Tadcaster 9c 2088

Local newspapers may have carried info on the court case, try the local records office.

Someone with access to passenger lists may find a Hewitt male travelling to Canada in 1920s that might fit.

My Gt Grandmother Mary Ellen Armstrong had twins, namely Frederick Hewitt Wardman and his twin sister Dorothy. Unfortunately the gentleman who was their father was shipped off to Canada by his parents. Their true fathers surname was Hewitt but I do not know his first name. Apparantly he worked at Becca Hall Farm Aberford which is where he met my Gt Grandmother. He was from a wealthy background where as my gt Grandmother wasnt hence the reason they were pulled apart and he was shipped away. Their Stepfather James Wardman brought them up as his own. I am really struggling as no one in my family was told much about it (inc the twins) as it was most likely a taboo subject. I do know that it went to court and they paid my Gt Grandmother off. I am hoping that someone may have some clues to this story otherwise I will never get anyway with that side of my family