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On the marriage register there are normally 2 marriages per page, so the 2 I underlined are 1 marriage and the other 2 are the other marriage, they are not always next to each other on Freebmd. Thank you Jimmy. That's clear. And thanks to everyone who's contributed with ideas and looking things up ...

Marriages Dec 1926. Carey Edward J. Parkinson . E. Stonehouse. 5b. 700. Fox Rosina M. Tompkins. E.Stonehouse 5b. 700. Parkinson Ida M G. Carey . E.Stonehouse. 5b. 700. Tompkins Alfred G. Fox. E.Stonehouse. 5b. 700. Thanks to all who've been looking things up. Sorry to be ignorant, but I don't reall...

No other family names mentioned in the diary, though I'll go back and double check I think. It's all Mum and Dad. However there are grandparents in Plymouth which fits with the Devon connection. They were worried about them after a bad raid on Plymouth. I suspect PeterD is right about his being an o...

Wow - what an amazing forum. Thanks. I was going to ask my Ancestry enabled friend to look up early 1928, but here is more detail than I could have imagined. Bernard S. is the one we found who has the wrong birthday and so I agree the one registered in January seems the best bet. We'll try and move ...

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Thanks for all these - and so quickly. The name is Bernard Carey, born 26/12/27 so definitely worth looking in first quarter of 1928. That sounds hopeful. The family lived in and around Portsmouth in 1941.
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I'm not doing a traditional genealogy - our charity shop received a handwritten diary written by a 13 year old boy in 1941. I'm trying to find out who he is and whether he is still alive. I have his name, his birthday (the last quarter of 1927),his addresses in 1941 and the school he moved to during...