WEEK 43 – Dig a little deeper
WEEK 43 – Dig a little deeper For the theme of “ dig a little deeper ” I am using 2 people – my Nan Doreen Cecilia Bland and her 1 st husband Reginald Charles Henry Booker. Doreen was born 6th October 1929 in Outwell, Wisbech, she was the daughter of Amy Rose Bland, and beleived to be Arthur Thompson (but he is not named on her birth certificate). Reginald was born Charles on 13 december1925 in Lambeth, London. A hint came up on my online tree asking if it matched the named person, well I was shocked to see the name did match my Nan, especially as it was a marriage record for 1947, and not one I was aware of nor was the named man. I started to “ dig a little deeper ” and came up with nothing linked to the named man, no birth, no parents, no address, nothing! I even asked a cousin to see if they could find anything and again all searches returned nothing. So; I ordered the marriage certificate. The marriage certificate arrived and the name is definitely my Nan, so I add...