| kiterunner |
04-11-15 09:53 |
I don't know who she is, James, but I am trying to find out whether she is the same person as Christina Annie Martin who married my great-uncle. I now have my Christina's date of birth from the 1939 Register, though I suspect that the year of birth on there is wrong, but I don't have her place of birth. When the birth certificate arrives, hopefully I will be able to figure out whether she could be my Christina or not.
If anyone wants to work on my Christina in the meantime (although I've been trying to figure out who she was for years), she married Reginald Hugh Bristow 12 Sep 1919 at Hackney Register Office, London, age 23, spinster, residence 12 Kingsland Passage (same address as Reginald), father Michael Martin, farmer. Witnesses F Elligett and J Simmons. I think F Elligett is Florence Elligett nee Cain who married Joseph D(ennis) Elligett in 1927 in Islington but had been living with him as his wife since before the 1911 census. But whether she was related to Christina I don't know.
My Christina died 11 May 1945, age given as 47. Her date of birth on the 1939 Register is 25 Dec 1896, but Reginald's is 15 Dec 1891 when it should be 1890, so I suspect Christina's should be 1895, and this would fit with her age at marriage. Hence the interest in a birth registered Jan-Mar 1896. Her middle name is Anna on a couple of documents, and on one her name is given as Anna Christina.
Anyway, I'm leaving it till the birth cert arrives as I have tried so many times before and got nowhere! Failing that, if I wait till 2021 the 1921 census should give me her birthplace. Although usually when I expect something to give me a clue to this branch of the family, it just raises more questions.
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