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Old 27-11-09, 23:35
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Default Olive May Fenton

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Olive May Fenton

Date and place of birth
27th July 1896 Gladeswood Road, Belvedere, Erith, Kent

Names of parents
Frederick George Fenton and Florence Selina Gloster (aka Selina Ann Gloster)

Date and place of baptism - if applicable
not yet found

Details of each of his or her marriages
14 August 1912 to Oscar Linkson at Barnet Register Office
2nd marriage not found - see footnote, help needed


Occupation(s) - if any
none found

Military service - if any
none

Addresses where they lived
Gladeswood Road, Belvedere
1901 - Sheringham Road or Avenue, East Ham (image unclear - RG13; Piece: 1601; Folio: 119; Page: 34)
1911 - 33 Eastdown Park, Lee
1912 - Hadley Hotel, Barnet, Hertfordshire (residence on marriage - although deceased father was down as hotel proprietor so could have been home)
1913 - Ferguson Road, Barnet, Hertfordshire
1914 - Dublin, Ireland


Date, place and cause of death
unknown - probably Australia

Date and place of burial / cremation.
unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

Memorial inscription - if any


Footnote for help needed:
I was in touch with a family member about 5 years ago who said that after her 1st husband's death in WWI that Olive remarried and moved to Australia or New Zealand. This marriage produced twin sons. I would love to find out more information about this if possible. 2nd husbands name is not known although she thinks it was possibly Palmer. Olive wasn't well liked by her mother in law so I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't hang around - but both her children (born 1913 and 1914) remained in the UK so at a guess her moving would have been after they had grown as the relative didn't know of them being brought up by someone else. Olive married less than three weeks after her 16th birthday and had her children aged 17/18 and was widowed by 20 so there is time there for her to remarry and move once they had grown.
Apologies for rambling but I had completely forgotten this little mystery that I have never been able to solve
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Old 28-11-09, 00:19
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Palmer is a red herring - that's a surname from the other part of Olive's family that went to Australia. I can't find the scrap of paper with the surname on right now. So I guess it will probably remain a mystery
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Old 28-11-09, 12:23
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If she waited to her children were grown up, then she probably stayed in England until about the mid 1930s, and as that was the middle of the depression, possibly did not migrate until after ww2, which would have put her in her forties if and when she remarried.

Few records are available for marriages at that time - although more are coming all the time. At present NSW, WA and QUeensland have free indexes for BMD, as does NZ, Victoria has them on line for a fee. You have to search each one separately.

If you can find her second married name, there are lots of on-line cemetery indexes which might help

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Old 28-11-09, 12:44
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Hi Zoe

Not sure if this is any good as it's a marriage in her maiden name.


Tasmania, Australia, Index to Marriage Notices in The Mercury, 1854-1962 (Ancestry)

Name: Olive May Fenton
Spouse Name: Donald E Chipman
Marriage Date: 30 Dec 1920
Gender: Female
Publication Date: 21 Feb 1921


Name: Donald E Chipman
Spouse Name: Olive May Fenton
Marriage Date: 30 Dec 1920
Gender: Male
Publication Date: 21 Feb 1921
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Old 28-11-09, 12:55
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Sadly that looks to be a red herring. A submitted entry on the IGI gives her DOB as 09 MAY 1898 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.


http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Sear...16&frompage=99
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Old 28-11-09, 13:11
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Anyway, she would have married for the second time under the name of Linkson, wouldn't she?

The only possible marriage I can find in the UK is Olive Linkson to a Lynn in Surrey in 1940. That couple had a daughter in 1947. Bit late for your Olive to be having children, maybe.

There is an Olive May Lynn on the electoral roll in Sydney in the 1940s/50s, but she appears to have been Olive May Law who married a Lynn in Aus, so I should think she's irrelevant.
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Old 28-11-09, 13:17
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????? Surely this has to be her

Olive M Fenton spouse Wellings
Joseph Wellings spouse Fenton
June 1944 Manchester 8d 254

Olive Mary Wellings
Born 27/07/1896
Death March 1988
Coventry 33/567

There's 2 Wellings MMN Fenton births, one in 1947 registered Ashton, the other 1948 registered Manchester
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Mary I think the Olive who married Mr Lynn is Oscar & Olive's daughter.
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Old 28-11-09, 13:32
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I guess you could be right, in view of Olive's date of birth. Odd that she married in her maiden name, though. And she's still very old to be having those children.
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Old 28-11-09, 13:49
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Going off her age the births do seem unlikely, but I can't see another Wellings/Fenton marriage.
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