See also
Husband:
Albert Edward BLAKE-AMOS ( - )
Wife:
Margery Lilian GOODSWEN (c. 1903- )
Marriage:
c. 19561
reg: Colchester Essex
Name:
Albert Edward BLAKE-AMOS
Sex:
Male
Father:
-
Mother:
-
London Gazette:
18 Aug 1942
ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS. ..... The undermentioned to be Lts. and Paymrs.: - 13th July 1942: - War Subs. Lt. A.E. Blake-Amos (146147)
Name:
Margery Lilian GOODSWEN
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
c. 1903
Pulham St. Mary Magdalen2
Census:
1911 (age 7-8)
Pulham St. Mary3
7, living with parents James (49, horseman on farm) and Sophia (48), and siblings Henry (24, farm labourer), Mabel (12) and Gertrude (9)
London Gazette:
9 Nov 1943 (age 39-40)
NOTICE is hereby given that I, MARGERY LILIAN GOODSWEN of 117 Sutton Court Road Hillingdon in the county of Middlesex a natural British born subject intend at the expiration of twenty-one days from the date of publication of this notice to assume the surname of Goodswen-Blake in lieu of my present surname of Goodswen. - Dated the 2nd day of November 1943. MARGERY LILIAN GOODSWEN (207)
There are many unanswered questions about Margery and her husband Albert. Whilst the name change for Margery, as shown in the London Gazette, is almost certain as her home address is that of her father, the listing for marriage civil registration only gives the husband's surname as Amos. There is the reference to Blake-Amos for the husband, but why did Margery's name change include Blake? The marriage was also quite late in life - had the two lived together, from around 1942/43 then finally marrying? There is also the possibility that Albert was in the Navy, transferring to the Royal Army Pay Corps when invalided with ulcers - this might explain why Colchester, an army town, was their place of marriage.
Civil Registration - marriage. 1956 Q2 Colchester Essex 4A 1091. Cit. Date: Q2 1956.
Civil Registration - birth. 1903 Q3 Depwade 4B 224. Cit. Date: Q3 1903.
1911 Census. RG14 PN11435 RD230 SD1 ED10 SN130. Cit. Date: 1911.
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