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poppycat

poppycat Report 15 Feb 2021 05:33


my grt aunt Alice married in 1921 to a William Browning
they married and lived in chatham Kent...they did have a dau. 1923

Alice re-married 1928 (without her dau living with her)
It seemed to be a family secret ( the dau) ....as my father b1917 new his aunt alice
and her 2nd husband as uncle Bert (Hampshire) no children.....

It seemed to be a family secret that Alice did have a dau.

What i would like to know is if her 'Divorce' made it to the local papers as some
kind of scandal...for the time.

Could someone do a lookup for me please 1923-1928

thanx!

Researching:
Gurney [ Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire London Middlesex] Freemantle [Bishops Sutton Southsea HAMPSHIRE] Halsted/Halstead[Portsea hampshire Brighton East SUSSEX] Lower [Brighton Lewe East SUSSEX Broomfeild [Dover Maidstone Aylesford Orpington KENT] Eves [Maidstone Goudhurst KENT] Buttress [ Cork IRELAND Deal Dover Canterbury KENT] Bayden [Deal Kent] Huckstepp [Dover Wye Ashford Hinxhil Of,ChilhamKENT] Kendall/Kendal[Poplar Middlesex Walmer KENT]

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 15 Feb 2021 07:30

Quite often in early divorces the mum lost custody so maybe it was too painful for her to talk about her daughter

Does the second marriage cert give her status as divorced

Are you sure the daughter was theirs as she was born in a different part of Kent ?

She was born and married in the Thanet reg district

Not open on the 1939 register as only passed in 2016

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Feb 2021 07:36

Yes, it did in reach the newspapers in Jun 1927 in Margate. However, the Divorce was made by Herbert's wife on the grounds of Adultery by her Husband with Alice Browning, a Barmaid. The Divorce was Granted and Herbert's wife was granted costs and custody of their child: could this be the child in question?

I'll send you the newspaper article after I've returned from walking my dog.

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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 15 Feb 2021 07:58

William also remarried in1928 and is on the 1939 reg with new wife and her children from her first marriage and their son

Two closed records one of which could be Renee E

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Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Feb 2021 08:50

I've found another article which also mentions Alice's Divorce

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LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Feb 2021 09:34

PMs sent with Articles.

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nameslessone

nameslessone Report 15 Feb 2021 10:29

Have you tried the National Archives?
I found documents relating to a 1921/21 divorce.

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 15 Feb 2021 10:59

London belle

Out of interest I couldn’t get any newspaper articles to come up on ancestry or FMP

Where did you find them ?

National archives do hold both records but they aren’t online ,they have to ordered and paid for

But national archives aren’t accepting orders at the mo

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Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Feb 2021 11:42

On FMP, Shirley......I just put Alice Browning in for the period 1923-28, the articles appeared in 1927:-)

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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 17 Feb 2021 07:53

Ahh thanks

I thought it would tick the box saying it found something,didn’t realise it’s a separate search needed

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957