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FMP Lookup Please!

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poppycat

poppycat Report 28 May 2011 17:25

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Thanks for your interest just looks as though his DC will hold the key as to who this 'Vera' is.....
your other info is correct.

Researching:
Gurney [ Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire London Middlesex] Freemantle [Bishops Sutton Southsea HAMPSHIRE] Halsted/Halstead[Portsea hampshire Brighton East SUSSEX] Lower [Brighton Lewe East SUSSEX Broomfeild [Dover Maidstone Aylesford Orpington KENT] Eves [Maidstone Goudhurst KENT] Buttress [ Cork IRELAND Deal Dover Canterbury KENT] Bayden [Deal Kent] Huckstepp [Dover Wye Ashford Hinxhil Of,ChilhamKENT] Kendall/Kendal[Poplar Middlesex Walmer KENT]

poppycat

poppycat Report 28 May 2011 17:22

jax !

Thanks for looking for Johns Death as i haven't his DC but looks as though will have to send for it.

Researching:
Gurney [ Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire London Middlesex] Freemantle [Bishops Sutton Southsea HAMPSHIRE] Halsted/Halstead[Portsea hampshire Brighton East SUSSEX] Lower [Brighton Lewe East SUSSEX Broomfeild [Dover Maidstone Aylesford Orpington KENT] Eves [Maidstone Goudhurst KENT] Buttress [ Cork IRELAND Deal Dover Canterbury KENT] Bayden [Deal Kent] Huckstepp [Dover Wye Ashford Hinxhil Of,ChilhamKENT] Kendall/Kendal[Poplar Middlesex Walmer KENT]

poppycat

poppycat Report 28 May 2011 17:17

Glitter Baby!

No,..... he would not have married abroad, was getting too old, but i beleive he would have married Gillingham, Chatham, or Rainham. or Sittingbourne...Kent.. as thats where he had Died...

Researching:
Gurney [ Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire London Middlesex] Freemantle [Bishops Sutton Southsea HAMPSHIRE] Halsted/Halstead[Portsea hampshire Brighton East SUSSEX] Lower [Brighton Lewe East SUSSEX Broomfeild [Dover Maidstone Aylesford Orpington KENT] Eves [Maidstone Goudhurst KENT] Buttress [ Cork IRELAND Deal Dover Canterbury KENT] Bayden [Deal Kent] Huckstepp [Dover Wye Ashford Hinxhil Of,ChilhamKENT] Kendall/Kendal[Poplar Middlesex Walmer KENT]

poppycat

poppycat Report 28 May 2011 17:13

jax! Thanks for his Death info as i do have that & his 1st marriage Cert.

Researching:
Gurney [ Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire London Middlesex] Freemantle [Bishops Sutton Southsea HAMPSHIRE] Halsted/Halstead[Portsea hampshire Brighton East SUSSEX] Lower [Brighton Lewe East SUSSEX Broomfeild [Dover Maidstone Aylesford Orpington KENT] Eves [Maidstone Goudhurst KENT] Buttress [ Cork IRELAND Deal Dover Canterbury KENT] Bayden [Deal Kent] Huckstepp [Dover Wye Ashford Hinxhil Of,ChilhamKENT] Kendall/Kendal[Poplar Middlesex Walmer KENT]

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 28 May 2011 17:11

Doesnt seemto be a marriage , maybe they lived together. The death cert may hold a clue

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 28 May 2011 17:05

Name: John Gurney
Spouse Surname: Hook
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1929
Registration district: Medway
Inferred County: Kent
Volume Number: 2a
Page Number: 1759
Find Spouse Dorothy L Hook

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 28 May 2011 17:03

is this his first wife?
Name: Dorothy L Gurney
Birth Date: abt 1898
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1947
Age at Death: 49
Registration district: Chatham
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 5b
Page: 552

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 28 May 2011 17:01

so starting from the beginning is this him??
Name: John Gurney
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1885
Registration district: Medway
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 2a
Page: 636

Who was his first wife??

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

jax

jax Report 28 May 2011 16:58

Is this his death

Name: John Gurney
Birth Date: abt 1885
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1963
Age at Death: 78
Registration district: Sittingbourne
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 5b
Page: 827

Researching:
Nothing much

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 28 May 2011 16:55

Why FMP ?
Do you think he married abroad?

What sort of location are we looking at

Researching:
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poppycat

poppycat Report 28 May 2011 16:49

I'm looking for the marriage of my Grt/Uncle who married sometime after 1947 - 1955

Would like to know who he married & yr Please.

His name John Gurney. possible middle name 'William'.

He was B 1885. New Brompton. Kent.... re-married after 1st wife died 1947.

wife's name..... may have been 'Vera' surname ?.....as the name on old PostCards to my Nan says Vera & John.

Thanks!

Researching:
Gurney [ Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire London Middlesex] Freemantle [Bishops Sutton Southsea HAMPSHIRE] Halsted/Halstead[Portsea hampshire Brighton East SUSSEX] Lower [Brighton Lewe East SUSSEX Broomfeild [Dover Maidstone Aylesford Orpington KENT] Eves [Maidstone Goudhurst KENT] Buttress [ Cork IRELAND Deal Dover Canterbury KENT] Bayden [Deal Kent] Huckstepp [Dover Wye Ashford Hinxhil Of,ChilhamKENT] Kendall/Kendal[Poplar Middlesex Walmer KENT]