Parents' marriage:

Marriages Dec 1895

Keny Mary Elizabeth Mansfield 7b 166
Noon John Thomas Mansfield 7b 166

This is the family in 1901:

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...1%2F0017450989

If this tree is anything to go by, there is a pretty tangled web, and Florence Mildred could be with her mother in 1911 if we could figure out what surname they were using!

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tr...91211661/facts

Okay, this looks like them in 1911:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...e&pId=25304915

Explains why her father is Arthur on her marriage cert.

Here's Florence!

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...c&pId=25304922

Snap, Kite.


So, Mum ran off with the lodger and Dad remarried, bigamously.

More skeletons!

Thank you Phoenix, Kate & Merry. Off to look at your finds now.

Hmm.

Just tidying up a few other of ex's rellies, I've come across a distant cousin, who divorced first wife and married second. Couldn't find his marriage though I had the year - turns out SHE also used his surname when they married, so she'd presumably acted as his wife before the wedding. Seems to be a habit. First wife also seems to have changed her Christian name too.