In message <13mr2a19ubdpda4@corp.supernews.com> "CWatters" <colin.watters@turnersoak.plus.com> wrote: > > "CWatters" <colin.watters@turnersoak.plus.com> wrote in message > news:13mr0dhfrjc1o9e@corp.supernews.com... > > Then Ruth Hall married Constantin BARANOFF in London... > > > > Marriages Sep 1881 (>99%) > > **BARANOFF Constantin Pancras 1b319 > > FLOWERS Julia Pancras 1b319 > > Raison William Pancras 1b319 > > **WALL Ruth Mary A Pancras 1b319 > > and they had a son so it looks like a possible shotgun wedding. That's my suspicion :-) > > Births Jun 1882 (>99%) > Baranoff Constantin William Pancras 1b165 > > before Constantin runs off and gets married again in NY in 1888 and Ruth > marries in Bishops Stortford in 1889? > > Ok so far I think.. I'm with you up to there. As I said the son appears to be with his widowed grandmother in 1901, enumerated as William Wall. > > Now Ancestry has him (?) going to California.. > > Constantin Baranoff > California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1957 > Immigration & Emigration > Port of Arrival: San Francisco, California > > and > > U.S. Public Records Index > Directories & Member Lists > Name: Constantin Baranoff > Residence: city, Sacramento, California > Very interesting, I note he's lost the 'von'. Many thanks for that. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy>