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Hi Rose,
You could be right and the other daughter may be a stepdaughter - worth a look tomorrow. Am off for a shower now. Many thanks for all your suggestion and thanks everyone who has given me some help this evening. Night all.

Rosemary,

The wildcard * means Rosa, Rosamund, Rosamund, etc.

Could be the other daughter was born before the marriage and was an Edwards.

Rose

Hi Rose, on her marriage details she's down as Rosamond so I expect Rosa was the shortened version. She seems to be a bit of a mystery so I don't think I'll be able to get Kenneths actual birtdate/place. I may have to concentrate on Kenneths wife Winifred to try and find their daughters.
Regards
Rosemary

Can't see a Rosa* Potter born c 1885 in 1911.

Rose

Duly noted, sorry Rose. Ther Stagg was a Mary J anyway!!

Hi Rose, Winifred Duncan may still be alive, she would be 96 and her daughter Jacqueline would be 68. Maybe I should try to find Winifred?

Rosemary

Hi trailertrash, Rose is right - he was born about 1912 , I think in Birkenhead. If his mother was a widow she may have a maiden name of Potter but her married surname may have been something else. When a widow gets remarried I'm not sure what name she would put down, her maiden name or her first marriage name? Regards, Rosemary

Can't see a remarriage or a death for a Winifred F Duncan.

Rose

Trailertrash,

The marriage was in 1913, so e had to be born before then.

Rose

Hi Rose, Kenneth was the only child. If I've got the right people he married Winifred Edwards in 1940 and had Jacqueline in 1944. When Kenneths father Thomas wrote to a cousin he mentions 2 girls but I can only find Jacqueline. She would be 68 now, if still alive. I really can't work out Kenneths birth surname but he got married as a Duncan so his death would be Duncan. It's really frustrating not being able to tie it all together. He could have left Cardiff at any time in the last 50 years so could have died anywhere. Regards, Rosemary

Is this him ??? Kenneth L Potter 1924 Plymouth, mothers maiden name Stagg??

If we can figure out when Kenneth was born we can try and locate a death and see where he was living.

Did Thomas and Rosamond have children? I'm trying to figure out her maiden name?

Rose

Hi Rose, Yes the're the right people, I think Kenneth was born a POTTER. perhaps she was a widow when she married Thomas Duncan. My Mum always thought that her uncle adopted Kenneth but in those days they didn't really discuss things in front of the children so my mum only picked up snippets of info. Regards Rosemary

So he was born a Potter?

Rose

Here they are:

Marriages Dec 1913
Duncan Thomas P Potter York 9d 105
Potter Rosamond Duncan York 9d 105

and then there's a Rosamond Duncan who dies in Plymouth.

Rose

Hi Rose, don't think that's my mums cousin as I don't think he was born a DUNCAN but my great uncle married his mother and he took the Duncan name. I think he was born in Birkenhead about 1912.

Hi jax, thanks for that info. I suppose she may have said she was born in wales as she may have spent most of her time there. Will try to contact the tree holder and see what happens. Many thanks

Parents of above, so probably not your family:

Marriages Sep 1903
Duncan Thomas Elliot W Pickering 9d 853
DUNCAN Thomas Elliott W Pickering 9d 853
WADE Emma Pickering 9d 853

Rose

There's a death for a Kenneth Leighton Duncan in Norfolk born 1910. Fits with this birth:

Births Mar 1911
Duncan Kenneth Sculcoates 9d 156

1911?


Schedule type Last names First names Sex Birth year Age in 1911 District / other County / other Transcript Original page
HOUSEHOLD DUNCAN CYRIL M 1905 6 Sculcoates Yorkshire East Riding (with York)
HOUSEHOLD DUNCAN EMMA F 1875 36 Sculcoates Yorkshire East Riding (with York)
HOUSEHOLD DUNCAN HORACE M 1909 2 Sculcoates Yorkshire East Riding (with York)
HOUSEHOLD DUNCAN KENNETH M 1911 3 MONTHS Sculcoates Yorkshire East Riding (with York)
HOUSEHOLD DUNCAN STANLEY W M 1907 4 Sculcoates Yorkshire East Riding (with York)
HOUSEHOLD DUNCAN THOMAS E W M 1879 32 Sculcoates Yorkshire East Riding (with York)

Rose

People put strange things in their trees.

I found myself on my husbands tree with my name shortened and born where he knew I grew up....strange thing was we were both born in the same hospital so you would think he would have remembered that!!

It was the nearest I could find for her and I could not find a birth in Wales to match that one

Not been able to find another child either. Nothing found on Jacqueline in Cardiff. She probably married elsewhere.....