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Hi all,

This is my first post so please accept my apologies for jumping straight into the brick wall section.

I have been able to trace my immediate family back to the 1830`s using the normal Birth, Marriages, Death and census databases online. However, I`m stumped with one of my aunts who was born in 1924. The problem arises because I beleive, from the little I do know of her, that she suffered from some form of mental illness. She suffered some form of breakdown in 1944 following the death of her mother and the last she was heard from was in 1946. Her treatment took her from East London to Glasgow and her last hospital was at whipps cross, east london. I have found her birth record but there is nothing of a Marriage or Death record. I know that she sometimes called herself by at least 3 different names. I had thought of medical records but you have to know where they are kept and they usually only keep them for a few years after death.
Any advice on where I might look for more info would be much appreciated. But I do think this really is a reinforced brick wall

you tried searching the marriage records in and around glasgow after 1946 ? she might of met someone and married ?

Thanks for your reply. She was in glasgow 1944 and was last seen 1946 in london. My searches have been BMD for whole of UK. from `44 to`83 Ivy E Hull (my aunt) is a real enigma.

not everything will be on line yet, you tried genes reunited ?

I did a free search on genes united with no luck, but I am subscribed to ancestry.co.uk who I assume have access to much the same data and apart from birth record there was nothing else.

Have you tried searching for possible children using her maiden name?
What is her name by the way?
Jo

hogster wrote:Thanks for your reply. She was in glasgow 1944 and was last seen 1946 in london. My searches have been BMD for whole of UK. from `44 to`83 Ivy E Hull (my aunt) is a real enigma.

here jo

how certain are you on that 1946 date hogster as there this

Marriages Sep 1945

Fletcher Robert J Hull Portsmouth 2b 1916
Hull Ivy E Fletcher Portsmouth 2b 1916

peterd wrote:

hogster wrote:Thanks for your reply. She was in glasgow 1944 and was last seen 1946 in london. My searches have been BMD for whole of UK. from `44 to`83 Ivy E Hull (my aunt) is a real enigma.

here jo

how certain are you on that 1946 date hogster as there this

Marriages Sep 1945

Fletcher Robert J Hull Portsmouth 2b 1916
Hull Ivy E Fletcher Portsmouth 2b 1916

1944 Glasgow
1945 Portsmouth
1946 London

These don't contradict each other -- just suggest a lot of movement around the country.

Thanks Peter I missed that!
Jo

I know that she sometimes called herself by at least 3 different names.

What are they?
wasnt Phyllis Ivy M Hull, Born 24th June 1824?
Jo

I`m pretty sure of the dates as I got them from the letters sent by the various hospitals she stayed at. My mum says she was also told that her sister was pregnant. So this maybe another reason she was sent away. My mum is sure she wasn`t married before 1946 so the "Fletcher" marriage is a dead end I think.
She also was known as Pat, and sometimes Ronnie. At one time she lost her memory and called herself Patricia Catherine O`Neal. I`ve tried searching under all those names and nothing seems to fit. She did have a boyfriend, a Canadian who was stationed here during the war. His name was Jules Winemaker. I have a letter he sent her mum in 1944. He may have been the father of her child but I dont know how to find what happened to either of them.

Just had a small success. I have discovered that she had baby called Christopher J Hull. In fact it appears she`s had 2. One in 1944 and another 1945. Both with the same name which is odd. I understand that one died and I guess she named her next baby the same Strangely though I can find no other record of him. Still, I`ve ordered the birth certs so they may shed some new light.

Flagging for status on this
are you still looking for info if so what info

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