John Arthur Dowsett

Joan

Can I ask something I thought there was a Maguerite in your family somewhere or am I wrong?

There was Maggie She was Dorothy's first child (known as Margaret), the one whom HW snatched and took to Germany as a young girl - I met her on quite a few occasions. She was the splitting image of Caroline Ruth Wicks, whose photo I found in a file at Kew

Okay did HW think she was his biological daughter then?

That is the big mystery, Maggie

He was awarded guardianship of Marguerite (b 1922) in 1928 at Liverpool Children's Court - I have no details as the records are "closed". Round about the same time, Dorothy was so worried that he was going to try to take my mother too, that she moved to France with my mother and they moved from town to town.

Joan

The penny has only just dropped

I think it's because I always come in half way and then get confused!

Originally Posted by Merry

No, I could do you MJAW (married female, husband unknown) and for the D surname, THD (married to the dau of MJAW) and his father, TJHD who I originally thought was dodgy as he apparently wasn't born or died, but now I've found he was born in 1915 (and he has a real, existing-on-the-census father, so a red herring), just that he hasn't died!! lol

Thanks Merry - I dont recognise any of those initials - but this has set me off on a new line of enquiry, which at the moment seems incomprehensible - I'll looked at it again when I'm less tired

Originally Posted by maggie_4_7

Joan

The penny has only just dropped

I think it's because I always come in half way and then get confused!

No worries Maggie -I am always confused

Merry - has the surname "English" crropped up at all in anything you have found?

Tx

[Merry]

No.....

Thanks Merry - - I have now seen the item in the Times - how strange - I has initially thought it might be connected with Derek Malcolm, but now I don't think it is.

Thanks again

[Janet]

Merry, Derek Malcolm Wicks - you popped in briefly on the end of that thread:

Research > Research Questions > Who was Derek?

http://genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum...ead.php?t=2556