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Joonie, and anyone else looking, it's very complicated lol.

But as we have worked through all the 'likely' Roger Dean's and as many of the others as could be 'possibles', it's really a case of going over the same ground to try and find a clue that's been missed perhaps.

One we have definitely ruled out, and with Roger's permission of course, I can give details if you Joonie or anyone else wants to have a crack at this :-)

There are only a few Roger Deans of possibly the right age in UK, though there is an outside chance given it was war time that Roger may have come from elsewhere.

I have emailed Roger with a possible birth as mentioned and subsequent current info with the suggestion that a discreet message just asking whether there is any likely connection might be worth trying, if only to eliminate.

and Roger ... it really isn't fair to post a general query (about someone who might not even be the person you are looking for?) when someone like Rose has been helping you privately and no one else knows what has been found or investigated ...

or to start multiple threads about the same thing

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1346556

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/military_chat/thread/1346609

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/military_chat/thread/1356337

particularly without giving any background or mentioning the other threads ...

Bit of a theory, will email you Roger

There is a birth out of the area which seems very likely, given that there was a later marriage for that person back in lancs and children to that marriage who were at one time living at the address shown on probate record for Roger.

1939 for Joan

1939 REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION
Wallsa Household (5 People)
Everslie Hall Lane , Hindley U.D., Lancashire, England

Joan Dean (Walls) 31 Dec 1915 Bank Clerk
William Wallsa 24 Oct 1881 Technical & Sales Engineer
Ethel R Walls 17 Jul 1885 Unpaid Domestic Duties
Beatrice Ratcliffe (Walls) 30 Apr 1918 Bank Clerk
Mary Rogerson (Woosey) 05 Sep 1909 Domestic Servant Paid

1939 for ref


Dean Household (3 People)
28 Hall Lane , Hindley U.D., Lancashire, England

Roger F Dean 02 Nov 1902 Bank Clerk
John E Dean 16 Mar 1873 Railway Clerk Retired
Sarah A Cooper 01 Apr 1887 Housekeeper

This was the likely death,


First name(s) ROGER FLETCHER
Last name DEAN
Gender Male
Birth day 2
Birth month 11
Birth year 1902
Age -
Death quarter 2
Death year 1977
District WOLVERHAMPTON
County Staffordshire
Volume 34
Page 0650
Country England
Record set England & Wales deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Deaths & burials
Collections from Great Britain

Roger did you get that cert? or probate ( sorry if I am repeating myself lol i have looked at this from all angles with no success)

Hi Roger :-) Sorry not to have got back to your emails, I have back problems at the moment so can only spend a short time on PC.

Just to let helpers know i have been in contact with Roger and his wife over a period of time now looking at all possible marriages for Roger Dean.

This is the marriage,

Marriage: 18 May 1942 All Saints, Hindley, Lancashire, England
Roger Fletcher Dean - 39, Bank Clerk, Bachelor, 28 Hall Lane
Joan Walls - 26, Spinster, Everslie Hall Lane
Groom's Father: John Eric Dean, Retired Railway Clerk
Bride's Father: William Walls, Engineers' Representative
Witness: John Causey; O. P. Woods; Beatrice Walls; William Walls
Married by Licence by: A.H.Johnson Vicar
Register: Marriages 1935 - 1946, Page 169, Entry 338
Source: LDS Film 93751

Do you know that they actually had any children?

I am not seeing any Dean/Walls births registered in Lancashire after 1942 on FreeBMD.

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

We are trying to trace living Sons&Daughters of the above couple who were married
18/5/1942 in All Saints Church, Hindley,Lancashire.