Having found the marriage earlier than expected how about: Q2 (Apr May Jun) 1944 HAMMOND Colin A STOW Maldon 4a 1409 Q1 (Jan Feb Mar) 1947 HAMMOND Martin B STOW Croydon 5g 75 Hope this helps JK On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:31 PM, <Csgen50@aol.com> wrote: > Good morning, > > I have an aunt, Diana Julie Stow born Q1 1924, Malden, 4a - 1282. Last know > to me in the late 1950's early 60s, when she supposedly died of cancer. She > lived in Tollesbury and joined the Land Army in WW2. > Then the mystery begins. I have photos of her wedding taken in front of a > church door, with my late father her brother present in RAF uniform. > Knowing > his service was most mostly overseas until the end of the war, dates the > wedding circa '44 / '45. My father was demobbed late 45. > Another rellie in Oz has been searching the BMD's on line, through > Ancestry, > and cannot find a wedding recorded at any time or place. Under her married > name, which I believe to be Curtis, she had 2 sons Colin and Martin born > between '46 and '50, but again there are no records of either birth. Even > more > mysterious is that we cannot find any record of her death. She would seem > to > have disappeared. Does anyone know if the BMDs on Ancestry are totally > complete > or might there have been a few transcription losses? > Of course my memory might be incorrect (I was just a lad) and the married > name might not be Curtis, hence the reason why we cannot find the boys > births or > Dianas death, but there should be a record of the wedding in the name > of > Stow somewhere. > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated but please take into > consideration that I don't live in the UK but S. France so my doing actual > look ups of > records is impossible. > > Regards, Mick. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

There's a death of a Geoffrey Norman HAMMOND registered in Jan 1999 age 77 Lincoln RD born 11 Dec 1921, which would fit with a wife born 1924. JK On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 2:29 PM, J K gen <gen2mail@googlemail.com> wrote: > Having found the marriage earlier than expected how about: > > Q2 (Apr May Jun) 1944 HAMMOND Colin A STOW Maldon 4a 1409 > > Q1 (Jan Feb Mar) 1947 HAMMOND Martin B STOW Croydon 5g 75 > > Hope this helps > > JK > > > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 12:31 PM, <Csgen50@aol.com> wrote: > >> Good morning, >> >> I have an aunt, Diana Julie Stow born Q1 1924, Malden, 4a - 1282. Last >> know >> to me in the late 1950's early 60s, when she supposedly died of cancer. >> She >> lived in Tollesbury and joined the Land Army in WW2. >> Then the mystery begins. I have photos of her wedding taken in front of a >> church door, with my late father her brother present in RAF uniform. >> Knowing >> his service was most mostly overseas until the end of the war, dates the >> wedding circa '44 / '45. My father was demobbed late 45. >> Another rellie in Oz has been searching the BMD's on line, through >> Ancestry, >> and cannot find a wedding recorded at any time or place. Under her >> married >> name, which I believe to be Curtis, she had 2 sons Colin and Martin born >> between '46 and '50, but again there are no records of either birth. Even >> more >> mysterious is that we cannot find any record of her death. She would seem >> to >> have disappeared. Does anyone know if the BMDs on Ancestry are totally >> complete >> or might there have been a few transcription losses? >> Of course my memory might be incorrect (I was just a lad) and the married >> name might not be Curtis, hence the reason why we cannot find the boys >> births or >> Dianas death, but there should be a record of the wedding in the name >> of >> Stow somewhere. >> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated but please take into >> consideration that I don't live in the UK but S. France so my doing actual >> look ups of >> records is impossible. >> >> Regards, Mick. >> >> >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >