Thanks Cassie and Yorkie I have spoken to staff at GRO and they say that in 1924 my Grandmother could have signed a document for the Registrar saying that she was a widow and it would have been accepted, especially so near to the end of WW1. It was a legal document and the onus was on her to tell the truth! My Grandfather married again in 1926 in Lancashire and declared himself to be a bachelor - easier for a man. My Grandmother had to re-marry under her married name as she had a child and the neighbours knew of her short-lived marriage. Velda