Some Marriage Certificate queries

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Can only find Alice K Platt born 1871 in Kensington. A single woman and her sister Emmie living with her.

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

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

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

Oooh thank you Margaret...Guildford is interesting - I don;t suppose there are any lodgers there with German- sounding surnames?

[Margaret in Burton]

Clarence Thomas Platt's father is listed as Joseph Platt a Toll Collector.

In 1911 there is a person of the same name and occupation (the only one) in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire. He was employed by Manchester Corporation and was born in Manchester. No sign of Clarence Thomas there as well.

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Muggins in Sussex

Oooh thank you Margaret...Guildford is interesting - I don;t suppose there are any lodgers there with German- sounding surnames?

I'll have a look

[Margaret in Burton]

ZAMBRA, Marcus Warren

ZAMBRA, Edith Mary

ZAMBRA, George Julius

REEDER, Jessie Edith

ZAMBRA, William Warren

ZAMBRA, Reginald Colpas

ACKERMANN, Kathleen Maud

SMITH, Cyril Wortner

PLATT, Horace Frederick

PLATT, Clarence Edmond

TRIGGS, Harold Thomas

STAMFORD, Alice Amy

MILLER, Emma Rose

DRAYS, Ruth Lilian Winfred

None born in Germany though.

Thank you Margaret

[Margaret in Burton]

Caroline Ruth Dowsett is employed by Gerard Mottram Hutton a clergyman in Brighton

Thanks Marg Highly fitting that she worked for a man of the cloth! LOL!!

She went on to marry HW Wicks - probably bigamously -( HW may well have been Clarence T Platt)......I don't now think he was also Clarence Edmund Platt..- I have found Clarence Edmund's birth...may sound a bit far-fetched, but I was thinking about identity theft.



and I have discovered on a rummage a German bible with a name inscribed...Hans T Praht

Think I need a lie-down - thanks again for your help, Marg

[Margaret in Burton]

Clarence Thomas Platt doesn't appear to exist but his supposed father Joseph a toll collector does.

Joseph has a son Thomas but not a Clarence. Thomas was born about 1883 in Manchester. No Clarence Platt seems to have a birth reg in Manchester either.

[Margaret in Burton]

The Dowsett family are at that same address in 1911. Do you have that census image Joan?