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As Peter has managed to return to remove his email address, I've deleted my editted C&P of his post

Peter,

Someone on here may report your post because you have put your email address on it.

You need to edit your post and remove that address.

Just click on Paula's name and send her a pm (if she has not already contacted you through that route) - you can tell her your email address privately then.

Hi Paula. just saw your reply. Thank you so much for answering and yes this is exciting. My wife is Gillian, John and Elvine's daughter. You are right Gill's brother David and his wife Marilyn visited you on their big overseas trip 1978/79, cant remember the exact date ourselves. John is nearly 91 now and I have been trying to sort our his and Walters birth certificates and who their mother really was because he doesn't know and I was hoping to contact someone from your side of the family who may know more than we do. Looks like you are having trouble as well. We look forward to hearing from you and I will send you a pm with our email address

Thank you so much. I've never used anything like this before so that is most helpful. I shall try it now.

Hi My name is Paula. Walter Francis Thorpe was my Grandad, Peggy Lillian Thorpe was my Nan. I lived with them. I remember seeing John and Elvine (I think it was) when they visited for the last time before they emigrated to NZ. Their son and his wife came to visit us around 1978/79 and had a camper van. I recall it well. Spookily, this is the first time I have ever searched on line for this.
What is more.. I know that my Aunt and Uncles (Walter's daughter, son and son in law) have been trying to trace your side of the family during the last year and also to find out more about the adoption but had drawn blanks, so this is exciting!..

PM received

Thomas Thorpe adopted Margaret's sons when he married her - no clue offered about Margaret's surname before marriage.

Not that it is actually pertinent to this enquiry, which is for Walter's descendants

...........have advised poster that he should respond on the thread.................

The daughter has William Frances Thorpe as born in 1924, London in her tree.

However, she could have Peggy's birth year wrong, so both could be estimations.

Welcome to the boards, Peter.

Could you tell us when Margaret and Thomas married, and what exactly was the adoption that occurred?

Thank-you

Peter confirmed the picture & marriage is correct.

On Ancestry PUBLIC Family Tree

Walter Francis Thorpe
Birth: dd mm 1925
Death: date - city, Essex, England
Marriage: date - city, Middlesex

Peggy Lillian Lawrence
Birth: dd mm 1922 - London, England
Death: date - city, Essex, England

F: Sidney William Lawrence
M: Alice Mary Ethel Farrents

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Births Dec 1888
FURRENTS Alice Mary E Banbury 3a 873

Marriages Sep 1917
Furrents Alice M E Lawrence Southwark 1d 151
Lawrence William S Furrents Southwark 1d 151

NO BIRTH FOR PEGGY THAT FITS THE MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME
using the Ancestry data


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Births Jun 1922
Lawrence Peggy L Carlton W.Ham 4a 785

"their adopted father was Thomas Thorpe."

What does that mean?

Were your father in law and his brother adopted by Thomas Thorpe...................or was Thomas Thorpe someone who had himself been adopted?

Please clarify...............

And what 'relatives' are you looking for?

Is this Margaret ?

Name: Margaret Ann Thorpe
Birth Date: 5 Jan 1899
Date of Registration: Dec 1976
Age at Death: 77
Registration District: Sheffield
Inferred County: South Yorkshire
Volume: 3
Page: 2016

So were they born before Margaret married Thomas Thorpe and they took his name after the marriage ?

MarriageFinder™: Walter F Thorpe married Peggy Lillian XXXXXXXX
Name: THORPE, Walter F
Registration district: [Hendon
County: Middlesex
Year of registration: 1946

Their daughter BORN 1948 is a GR MEMBER

Name: THORPE, Walter Francis
Registration district: Rochford
County: Essex
Year of registration: 1970
Quarter of registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Date of Birth:25 March 1925

no birth under this surname

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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5kVSdnHVuWIJ:www.pegasusarchive.org/normandy/Biog1/Walter_Thorpe_1.htm+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

?

Could you post approx dates and area


Regards

Hi. I am trying relatives of my father in laws late brother Walter Francis Thorpe. My father in law is John Thorpe. Their mother was Margaret Ann Thorpe and their adopted father was Thomas Thorpe.