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Some Marriage Certificate queries
I have just been looking at this certificate again and have a few queries
Is the groom's occupation "Temporary Civil Servant"?...seems a bit odd. Why would the bride's father's details have been ommitted? Next to the witness Henry Oliphant's name is written "A K Platt" - I had thought this meant "otherwise known as Platt" - or is it that there was a 3rd witness called AK Platt? Thank you Joan Last edited by Muggins in Sussex; 06-02-10 at 21:06. |
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I think AK Platt is a third witness. Presumably the bride knew nothing about her father.
As to the groom's occupation, I expect during 1917 lots of people ended up doing war work in odd places. Conscription started in 1916 I think so he has side stepped that for some reason. |
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Thanks Jill
I am trying find out who Hester Appleton was and getting stuck!! LOL - If only her father's name had been on the cert!! Your explanation for the groom's occupation makes perfect sense - Thank you |
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There's an Alice K Platt born c1877 living in Kensington listed on the 1911 census (I don't have a sub to that), don't know if that rings any bells as the 3rd witness
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I have a sub, I'll take a look
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Can only find Alice K Platt born 1871 in Kensington. A single woman and her sister Emmie living with her.
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Joan
Can't remember but have we found any of them in 1911?
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Alice and Emmie are born in Clapton, London. I have found Clarence Edmond Platt in 1911, he is also born in Clapton, London. There is also a Horace Frederick Platt there. They seem to be at a sort of lodging house in Guildford H F Platt on the marriage cert
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Oooh thank you Margaret...Guildford is interesting - I don;t suppose there are any lodgers there with German- sounding surnames?
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