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Thankyou for your replies. As I am carrying out research for someone else
Marriage certificate not yet applied for.

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Thomas Harrower
Birth Date: 30 Mar 1927
Date of Registration: Dec 1981
Age at Death: 54
Registration district: Ealing
Inferred County: Middlesex
Volume: 12
Page: 0139

or possibly not, as records on incoming records said RAF not merchant navy:

WWII Medals Issued to Merchant Seamen, 1939-1945
Name: Thomas Harrower
Birth Date: 30 Mar 1927
Service: 1939-1945
Medal Issued/Claimed: 1946-2002
Discharge Number: R297692

Could easily be still alive.

Cannot see a birth, so Scotland or abroad?

What does the marriage certificate say about him?

Gives his age as 26, so should be a birth around 1927.

Patchem
Does the entry on Ancestry for Thomas Harrower which is crossed out give his age please.
64 Rendel Street, was the home of her mother and her second husband.

Kucinta
Many thanks I have received the pm.

Bruce, am sending you a birth registration for Leslie C Harrower , mother named Ranshaw, a bit peculiar as has 1953, but then 1995 , which is why I'm sending it by pm.

EDIT: It is an overseas birth that took place in 1953, but for some reason wasn't registered until 1995.

I had also found the marriages for Lesley, but had not found the birth registration.
but if she was born in South Rhodesia that would be the explanation.
Betty married Thomas Harrower in 1950. The Rendel address will give something to research when I am next in the local library

Many thanks.

There is a marriage for a Lesley C Harrower in 1971 in Grimsby, possibly followed by another marriage to Carl D Smith.

Think Leslie was born in South Rhodesia.

Ancestry has incoming records for Betty Harrower age 23 in 1953 with 3 month old Leslie. Thomas (?) Thorne (?) Harrower's name (RAF) has been crossed out from the passenger list. They are going to 64 Rendel (?) Street, Grimsby

Shirley and Chris

Many thanks.You have correct families and relations to my original request.
I have not yet established the divorce details, but as both parties remarried I am assuming they were. I have traced the details of the life of Mary Elizabeth Walker after the break up.
However the obituary of Betty Harrower mentions a daughter Lesley, but I cannot find a BMD reference for the birth of Lesley with the surname of Ranshaw.

Shirley and Chris

Many thanks.You have correct families and relations to my original request.
I have not yet established the divorce details, but as both parties remarried I am assuming they were. I have traced the details of the life of Mary Elizabeth Walker after the break up.
However the obituary of Betty Harrower mentions a daughter Lesley, but I cannot find a BMD reference for the birth of Lesley with the surname of Ranshaw.

Must have been a divorce

Name: Herbert Leonard Ranshaw
Death Date: 12 Feb 1965
Death Place: Grimsby
Probate Date: 8 Sep 1965
Registry: Lincoln, England

Administration to Betty Harrower and May Godwin

Betty is his daughter

Baptism
County Lincolnshire
Place (link for place information) Grimsby
Church name St Paul
Register type Unspecified
Register entry number 375
Baptism date 1 Feb 1910
Birth date 9 Jan 1910
Person forename Herbert Leonard
Person sex M
Person abode 3 Stortford St
Father forename Leonard Cousins
Father surname RANSHAW
Father occupation Labourer
Mother forename Rose


Burial
County Lincolnshire
Place Grimsby
Church name Cemetery (Scartho Road)
Register type Unspecified
Burial date 27 Dec 1950
Person age 71
Burial person forename Leonard Cousin
Burial person surname RANSHAW
Register note D 22/12/1950

http://www.freereg.org.uk/

(if anything else relating there)

Chris :)

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GRO Index Army Marriages (1881 to 1955) Transcription (Find My Past)

First name(s) HERBERT L
Last name RANSHAW
Marriage year 1948
Marriage place GRAZ
Country AUSTRIA
Page (4)73
Line number 110

Herbert is on his own in1931 electoral roll

Address 6 Haycroft Avenue Grimsby

Same area as Mary and Edward are living in 1939 as Haycroft Street is listed on the same sheet

Births Mar 1910
RANSHAW Herbert Leonard Grimsby 7a 600

Guess this is her daughter

Births Jun 1930
Ranshaw Betty Walker Grimsby 7a 1004

Marriages Sep 1950
Harrower Thomas Ranshaw Grimsby 3b 686
RANSHAW Betty HARROWER Grimsby 3b 686


Marriages Jun 1929
Ranshaw Herbert L Walker Grimsby 7a 1716
Walker Mary E Ranshaw Grimsby 7a 1716

Safc

Many thanks for that. It proves a connection because Mary Elizabeth had left a first husband and Ernest Pearce became her second husband but did not marry until ten years later.

Once again many thanks

Ernest Pearce on the 1939 Register

1939 Register Transcription

Pearce Household (3 People) 87 Haycroft Street , Grimsby C.B., Lincolnshire (Parts of Lindsey), England
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First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Sex Occupation Marital status Schedule Schedule Sub Number
Ernest Pearce 12 Sep 1910 Male Provision Warehouseman Heavy Work Single 57 1
Mary Elizabeth Pearce (Ranshaw) 29 Aug 1910 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 57 2
Betty Salah (Harrower,Ranshaw) 22 Apr 1930 Female At School Single 57 4

Can anyone with access to the 1939 register please find Ernest Pearce born 1910 and Mary Elizabeth Pearce. Address and dates of birth please.
Many thanks in advance