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Is this still a Brickwall, or have you solved it? Unless otherwise advised this will be moved to the Brickwalls Archived section within 24 hours No this has been solved. Gladys was born in India to an Army officer. She was recorded as Gladys stephens widower on the 1911 census a year before Clarenc...

no still a dead end

thanks for looking though - Ive sent away for my Grandads birth cert to see if Gladys and Clarence H (Snr) are on there or anything diff...

thanks - Im wondering if they ever married and she just took his name but why cant I find her birth?

no thats what Im saying he never spoke of it its just what my mum was told by the family

Hi this is the non starter on Gladys also - My mum knows nothing of her and (my grandad has died to ask) but she only remembers her fatehr being upset about it and that this man had not been who he seemed I think he as quite ashamed and didnt speak anything more of it so I am at a loss there. Also G...

Found the Cert :Clarence H Stephens aged 25 on Marr Cert to Florence Beckett 10/4/1937 St Thomas Ardwick (Manchester) Bachelor paper maker address 78 Higher Ardwick. Witnesses HAROLD JONES & GLADYS STEPHENS Clarence H placed father as deceased with same name theatrical agent. This is as far as I...

Hi yes Florence is the one. I found it by scrolling through the BMD indexes when I had full membership on Ancest*y but its not on the Free BMD but it was chorlton and she was Gladys and mother was HENFREY. Unfortuntely I didnt put the volume number etc but I was new at this and didnt realise it was ...

Sorry oct-Dec 1916 it was the additional child I found in 1914 sorry for the sketchy info but Ive switched computers and copie the GEN file but when I have reloaded onto my new PC it seems to have missed some info out that I put in notes

hi Gladys supposidly remarried but my grandad said that he found out after his"step fathers" death that they never actually married but he changed his name to Stephenson for appearances so I wonder if she married his father befroe he dided(or if he did) This is why Im at a dead end. Not su...

no that one is my grandad who was apparently his fathers namesake. Cant seem to find the wedding cert now but I remember the witness as G Stephens and was told that the sister was named Gladys after monther and I have found her birth in 1914 along with a henfrey (Also found a 3rd child who died that...

Hi I have nothing other than whats on the marr cert of Clarence H Stephens and Florence Beckett 1937 Manchester

I cant believe Ive got nowhere so soon with my maternal side. My Grandfather Clarence Henry Stephens b1912. His marraiage Apr 1937 stats his father as Clarence Henry Stephens Deceased. Thats as much as I can find. Also his mother was Gladys Henfrey and I cant find a marr for Henfrey & Stephens (...

I seemed to have hit a brick wall and not sure where to go next. I have a Marr Cert for George Briggs & Elizabeth Airey Married 14/08/1902 NewShildon Durham. Geo aged 29 widower, gardner, 17 Kilburn St, Father John Briggs Farmer. Elizabeth Aged 25 Spinster 19 Kilburn St, Father William Airey Eng...