Who is Alfred?
 

This is Alfred in 1911, in Wales:



https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...urce&pId=55444


Alfred Cousins is 48
Ada is 40 (married 16 years)
John is 14


All born Portsmouth.


This is coming as a hint for my John Victor Baigent Couzens.
Born 1897,son of Ada Phobe Couzens (unmarried)


Here is the family in 1901:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...89?pId=6738620


Phoebe aged 31
John aged 4


Am I (and Ancestry!) confusing two separate families, or has Alfred adopted the surname Cousins as a matter of onvenience?

My F-i-L did that (took his wife's name).

I see Ada died in the 1940s. Have you got her in 1939 and is she alone/what is her marital status?

Ada's probate entry says she is a widow and mentions her son as John Victor Couzens an incorporated accountant.

There's ony the one birth reg for a John Couzens (any spelling) in the right place at the right time.

Was her b'day 12 Feb 1870?

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...30&pId=3062320

erolls 1927-1931

70 Elms Rd, Fareham, Hants

Alfred George Couzens
Ada Ph(o)ebe Couzens

John Victor is there to for the first year.

I know Ada said she was a widow in 1939, but I wonder if they were separated as there's this Alfred here:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...1f&pId=2844082

There is a death in 1944 to fit, but sadly no probate entry.

Ooh, thank you, Merry. That eroll demonstrates that I'm on the right lines, and the 1939 entry led me to 1863 Portsea births.

What's the bet that this is Alfred:

Births Dec 1863
Baigent Alfred John Portsea I. 2b 353

Okay, there is also this:

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...596%2F0315%2F1


Alfred John Baigent aged 47, widower in Portsmouth. Could he appear twice? I note that he is a carpenter in both places.

These things just get wierder and wierder.

Alfred John Baigent, respectable widower, marries Maria Louisa Whittle, spinster, in 1919.

Here's his probate entry in 1944:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...7?pId=17035454

The executor is Maria Louisa Baigent.

Here's her death:

Deaths Dec 1946
Baigent Maria L 68 Portsmouth 6b355


But if everything is straightforward and legit (and this is the wrong Alfred), where are Alfred and Maria in 1939?

Okay, so heere they are at 121 Wingfield St still:

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/reco...52B%2F005%2F03


Arthur is giving a DOB 19 Sep 1876 but he is 78 when he dies, five years later.