Ferdinand Alexander Martin UPDATE 16.8.21

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Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 5,672 Send Message	SuffolkVera	Report	16 Aug 2021 18:24
	I am sure you are right Erika. I didn’t really think there was anything “dodgy” about it. I am just intrigued as to why he changed both his forenames. I do now know that he went by the name of Frederick Albert Martin as I have found him in a Liverpool ER for 1920. I am confident that it is him because he is living next to his in-laws. It’s the stories behind our ancestors actions that I find intriguing and this one is eluding me. Was there a family feud that made him apparently strike out on his own and was that the reason for the name change? I’ll probably never know.
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 25,041 Send Message	ArgyllGran	Report	16 Aug 2021 19:42
	Perhaps he wanted his name to sound less foreign during the war?? Who knows?! I think you're just going to have to buy the Gosport death cert, and hopefully that would be one less mystery.
	Researching: Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 5,672 Send Message	SuffolkVera	Report	17 Aug 2021 10:22
	Yes, I think I will order the Gosport death certificate ArgyllGran. It might leave me none the wiser but I might find a clue on it somewhere.