Free records this weekend.

The head of household was his supposed wife, a widow, living with her son from first marriage and daughter in law.
She was still using her surname from her first marriage on the census.
I have not looked at this family for a while, but I have realised that I have a copy of the marriage registration.
That looks to say 1919.

 

Her son was a witness, so I don't think it was that secret!
Maybe she wanted to be head of the household in the census and if she used her married name her husband would have been head.

 

Thanks for that Peter, you may be right.

Here are the dates from the marriage record



One witness was the son, the other witness I do not recognise the name but they gave the same address as the son, which is where the family was living in 1921.
The other slightly strange thing is that she is called Helen on the 1921 census, every other document she is Eleanor Jane in various spellings.
You may be correct in that she was trying to keep the marriage secret from officials for some reason.

I will leave it at that for the moment and see if anything else comes to light.
Thanks for your help.

 

Her first husband died in England before she moved to Canada.
They emigrated in 1913.

 

Free Ancestry this coming weekend to UK and Irish records.

 

I have just looked at the updated newsletter and clicked on the embedded link, to no avail. Unfortunately, for me anyway, the displayed page of the newsletter remains unchanged except for the change of colour for the link (from blue to pink). I tried to copy and edit the link but that did not work either.

Even without the link, the Stop Press is useful for those who read the newsletter after the update. Might there be an easy way to alert early readers that they should return to find out about further information? Readers are unlikely to return every day just on the off-chance. Perhaps a message displayed at the top of the page within the LC web site, or dare I suggest a popup window within LC, etc?

 

As Peter said in his Stop Press I too have been unable to view records in one of the 'featured collection' parish records (NFK C of E birth and baptism 1813-1915) .

 

Hi, I have been able to view a West Yorkshire Parish Register today without a subscription.
West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910
I had to allow scripts in our security program. Before that, it would not even let me search.
K

 

Yes - I sent a 'comment' to Ancestry about the problem and now I can see the Norfolk parish registers that I couldn't before.

 

Ancestry has UK military records free this coming weekend.
(I checked 'Stop press' before posting this!)

 

Thank you Peter - my post was sent before I received your newsletter.