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Well that makes it even harder. Wartime, though - wouldn't her identity card have been required?

She could have said what she liked...I doubt she would have had to prove her name

I have but Webber wasn't my mother's maiden name. Could she have taken her ring off and said she wasn't married?

Have altered my original message as suggested, Stuart. Don't know what I was doing but yes, it was a mistake. Thanks for your guidance.

Unless the dad agreed to be named on the birth reg and went with her when she registered in then his name wont be on the cert .PLUS the birth record would show in both surnames if his dad was on the cert so you would still find it under mums surname

Have you looked at the Roger Webber mmn Webber and discounted that one.

Its Surrey and the right quarter for a feb birth

Welcome Sembrong!

You have ticked the thread as answered - possibly by mistake and if so it may mean that no one will look at it again now. There is no facility for unmarking it, but you can go into your original heading and add something along the lines of "still unanswered"

Thanks, Stuart.

Go into "MY Account" at very top of this page. It will show your Personal details. Put your name into the space for Message boardname and select Yes further down where it asks if you want to use board name

Many thanks, Stuart, for the website, which is new to me and which I am dealing with now.

I would be very grateful if someone could tell me how I can add my name to my posts. I'm not sure where I missed something out when entering my first one! Many thanks, Anna.

Many thanks, Shirley and Stuart, for the information you have found for me. However I do have all that as they were my parents - now long since gone, which is why I have been trying to trace my half-brother. My mother had a liaison during the war when the marriage was in trouble and my father was away and she subsequently had a boy. I know it was February but am not sure whether it was 1943, 4 or 5. Added to which, the American GI was of Italian origin, so the child may have been given his surname. I'm beginning to despair, though of ever finding this particular needle in the haystack. Sorry I've been late in replying but I have been out shopping.

Having said all that - it's not what you were looking for - have a read of this thread re adoption, it may help
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1188821

Name: Flora M D Coleman
Mother's Maiden Surname: Newberry
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1916
Registration District: Newton Abbot
Inferred County: Devon, Cornwall, Scilly
Volume Number: 5b
Page Number: 130

That one looks better Stuart

how sad , stiil young

Name: Flora M D Webber
Birth Date: abt 1916
Date of Registration: Dec 1960
Age at Death: 44
Registration District: Portsmouth
Inferred County: Hampshire
Volume: 6b
Page: 519

Was looking at this one

Civil Registration event: Marriage

MarriageFinder: Donald H Webber married Flora M D Coleman
Name: WEBBER, Donald H
Registration district: Newton Abbot
County: Devon
Year of registration: 1940
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's last name: Coleman
Volume no: 5B
Page no: 523

She was born 1916 Newton Abbot

And at that point I have to go out!

Name: Flora Marian Davidson Webber M B E
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Birth Date: abt 1917
Departure Date: 5 Mar 1953
Port of Departure: Southampton, England
Destination Port: Singapore
Ship Name: Willem Ruys
Search Ship Database: Search the 'Willem Ruys' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Rotterdam Lloyd Royal Dutch Mail
Master: C C Goedewaagen

with Donald Harry Webber a Rubber Planter

back in this country

Name: Donald Harry Webber
Birth Date: 31 Jan 1914
Date of Registration: Mar 1981
Age at Death: 67
Registration District: Chichester
Inferred County: West Sussex
Volume: 18
Page: 1818

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married in 1942

Name: Donald H J Webber
Spouse Surname: Sheppard
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1942
Registration District: Portsmouth
Inferred County: Southampton
Volume Number: 2b
Page Number: 1388
Find Spouse:Florence M Sheppard



so are we looking for a child Webber mmn Shepherd ?

Edit : no wrong marriage see Stuarts posting

was she married as there is passenger records for 1953 coming up for her with a hubby of the same age as her who was a Rubber planter and they intended to live in Malaya

They also went out in 1949 home address Southsea Hampshire

Probable Birth can be found on this website - free to use. Year 1945

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

EDIT - this was using mmn as Webber before details of prior marriage were found. The question asked may not have been clear and she gave her married name by mistake instead of maiden name?