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As I have said several times, I attended most of the weddings! I am sure he married that many times. Many thanks.

Someone with that many marriages is likely to make the papers as did the one mentioned above.

Are you sure they were actual marriages and not that he just lived with some of them?

Newspaper article dated 2019

Britain's most married man, 71, calls off his engagement to would-be wife number nine, 30, who he'd never actually met because 'it didn't feel right'

The one who married in Hull was still there in 2016 - and was almost certainly born in 1969

Buy copies of the marriage certs to confirm what you believe about the marriages for your father's name

As you're looking for your possible half-siblings, you need to know the maiden names of the women to enable a search for births, and they may not have been spinsters when they married - as was the case with your mother

Hiya,

Thank you for all your help.

Some things I do know for certain:

He was married twice before he married my mother (the first marriage was very short).

He then married at least 7 more times, the last marriage being in 2018.

I was present for those ones! There is potentially 1 more marriage that I wasn't present for between 1986 and 1989.

There are some short marriages. I have spoken to two of my siblings, one of whom has confirmed that his first child was a boy (from the short lived first marriage) who was then adopted.

The names I have referred to are names he was linked with at times of marriage. So yes, I am well aware that Moxham was not my mother's maiden name :-)

I appreciate all of your help. I am not looking to go back in the family tree as his brother has already done an outstanding job of that! I am simply trying to work out his marriages, as although I was present, for most of them, I was a young child.

One of your father's sisters in law is in the BT phone book

You say that your mother was his third wife............has she told you that? Or have you just made assumptions having looked at records for his name?

The 1973 marriage in Claro was a man born in 1947 who happened to share your father's name

The one who married in 1991 was born in 1969 in the place where he married

SP site has records of recent divorces - there are NONE for your father's name

Claire must be in contact with the child with Ather - she has her in her GR tree, and site rules stipulate that living people must not be included unless they have given permission

I think it unlikely that the man on the ER in Warrington for the period 1998-2018 is the same as the one in Paisley for exactly the same period. It is illegal to register to vote more than once

His mother's family in 1939
6 The Terraces, Washington, Washington U.D., Durham, England
John Quinn 24 Nov 1893 Male General Labourer Married 113 1
Annie Quinn 16 Mar 1896 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 113 2
Ellen Norton (Quinn) 03 Jun 1919 Female Domestic Looking For Work Single 113 3
The record for this person is officially closed.
Raymond Quinn 30 Aug 1929 Male At School Single 113 5
Lawrence Quinn 30 Aug 1931 Male At School Single 113 6
Annie Robson (Quinn) 10 Sep 1933 Female At School Single 113 7

Two marriages for his name in Scotland.................which is where he died. Both were to women who had been married before

Death
NORTON
DERRICK
66
QUINN
2020
650/ 187
Eastwood and Mearns

Marriages Mar 1941 (>99%)
Norton Joseph Quinn Durham N. 10a 1254
QUINN Ellen Norton Durham N. 10a 1254

5 children

Shirley..........the marriage to Moxham is to the poster's mother -see my post at 09.45

There is a marriage in 1979 to a Moxham but it’s very close to another marriage so may not be the same man

Moxham isn’t actually a name linked to your father - your mother’s maiden name was Burgess

Look on freebmd. There’s one child from the first marriage mmn Ather

Not many divorce records have survived and won’t be online anyway