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Name Bjørn Rogan
Birth date 2606 1917
Died date 0306 1997
Burial date 2609 1997
Square T
Row 02
Grave number 018
Cemetery Nordre Gravlund
County/Municipality Telemark/Skien
Registrations by Kirkevergen i Skien
Transcriber Kirkevergen + Eva Erntsen
Registration finished November 2008
Notes
Photographer Eva Erntsen, DIS-Telemark
About the registration Kirkevergens database + gravminnene

Laura

Can you clear up the issue of whether or not Vera migrated to Australia?

You haven't responded to Peter's comments about your previous post about the lady

Presumably in 1934 when they married she had to have parental consent?

Jude

On the birth cert the birth was registed 6th Oct 1916, in Bournemouth. Yes I guess her parents did agree to the marriage as Thomas Rogan was 10 years older at the time. :-)

See my not re Ancestry, no link re Aus/Nz as previoulsy though

So what do you think of the Norway Vera - who was Bjorn Rogan?

Does it mean it's not her in Norway?

Maybe not , all the Tarrants have always been from Bournemouth her husband was from Cumbria would seem odd for Vera to go to Norway? Still was worth a try . Just have to keep looking maybe she was divorced or remarried ?

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Laura, have you looked at the link to the Norway death? There is a photograph of the gravestone - she is buried with a Bjorn Rogan 28/05/1917 to May 1997

Me,I would guess that Bjorn and Vera were husband and wife.
So probably not your Vera.

My thinking exactly Thelma...but quite a coincidence!

Jude

Have you checked old electoral lists to see who else was living at the home address given onThomas death certificate?
His certificate won't mention his marital status, but if Vera was living with him, one might guess they were still married.

She might still be alive now, of course.

Gwyn

Good thinking Gwyn - together in 1961 (latest I could find) for Vera or Thomas

Name: Vera Rogan
Electoral Year: 1961
Parliamentary Division: Holborn and St Pancras South
County or Borough: Camden

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Very interested to here, they were living in London in 1961 Seems they moved away from Bournemouth, he may have travelled with his job as a musicain.

His address at the time of his death was was 34 Percy Street W.1. Possible Vera was living there to. He died in the Middlesex Hospital City of Westminster 7th Oct 1975.
Also have a birth cert now for Thoams born Workington 1906, to William Rogan and Ellen (Jones) :-)

They were at the same address in 1945. With Charles F Brown
There are 13 entries from 1945 to 1961 have not checked them all but those that I have were the same address.

Laura, assumed he was born Co. Durham as the only Nora Rogan I could find was 1908 up there too.

And Nora married Francis Silmon up there too....she doesn't figure on any of the electoral rolls so my guess is she travelled to London as his next of kin in 1975

Yes Norah Rogan/Silmon did travel down as her address on the death cert was
15 Earl St Burrow in Furness Cumbria ,at the time. Seems strange if Vera was still living with him?

Yes will be the same Norah , Silmon was her married name, and the family were all from that area. :-)

Would guess that between 1961 and 1975 Vera and Thomas parted else surely she would have been the informant

Yes it may be true they parted, no mention of his married staus on the death cert. Just wonder where she went as she would not be that old about 59 in 75. Maybe she re married. ? Mayber tracing his family could have some answers?

The electoral roles only go to 1961 online.It might be worth asking the library that covers Holborn if Vera was a resident 1962-1975 and beyond.

Yes a good idea will follow it up, see what I can find out Will add my findings when I get them