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there is a marriage for a Sandra C Sendall Croydon?

and no matching birth on freebmd

edit though there is a birth Croydon but without middle initial

Ok I caught up. I have emailed a few of you privately. I'm confused as to how Austin found a sister Marjorie.

I am certain that the Vera Collins born in Biddulph is correct as her father is a postman on the marriage certificate.

The census does not list a Marjorie at that time?

A remarriage would make sense and that would explain my father's adoption although that makes me terribly sad. Please could I kindly ask that those details are sent to me so I can add them to my tree and check before I start contacting people.

Also you have all been amazing. Truly I mean this as my family is small and bears the scars of this adoption and then adoptive parents dying when my father was 5. No one wanted him and he has become a bitter man.

I hope I can put some of this right. So please please send me the details and I can follow this all up. Austin - the Facebook names would be amazing. You are all far better at this than I am, juggling a teaching job and kids is hard!

So thank you, thank you, thank you.

I'm just on my way out- Could someone please post the details of the 1939 register for:

Margery Sendall (Collins) 1919 Croydon C.B. Surrey

born- 6th November 1919.
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Marjorie has the same mother's maiden name as Vera (Marjorie was a twin)- I believe she was Vera's older sister :

Births Dec 1919
Collins Colin Griffin Stoke T. 6b 606
Collins Marjorie Griffin Stoke T. 6b 606

Household (1 Person)
Mayday Hospital Mayday Road Thornton Heath , Croydon C.B., Surrey, England

Margery Sendall (Collins) 06 Nov 1919 Domestic Housemaid

may well not be connected but just noticed this name further down the list on that same

Household (1 Person)
Mayday Hospital Mayday Road Thornton Heath , Croydon C.B., Surrey, England

Margaret H Alexander 04 Jul 1913 Probationer Nurse

There is a marriage for Marjorie Sendall in 1960 to Skeet

birth date on death reg is the same as Marjorie Sendall, nee Collins


First name(s) MARJORIE
Last name SKEET
Gender Female
Birth day 6
Birth month 11
Birth year 1919
Age -
Death quarter 1
Death year 1998
District Croydon
District number 2251A
Register number A58B
Entry number 163
Date of registration mm/yy 0398
County Surrey
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Deaths & burials

Just for ref Herbert K Sendall's probate record 1981 is on https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills

address given as Selsdon Vale which is Croydon

might have a possible lead but it involves the second marriage of a Sandra, anyone want to double check for me please? will PM

From marriage records, it looks like Sandra might have remarried to Peter Crouch.

I cannot find a birth record for Vera Collins, but Kay found another tree with Keith Sendall on it. The father was Herbert and the mother Vera, although interestingly the certificate attached was for Marjorie.

Have sent you a message Deborah :-)

Nyx, I have no message from you? :-S

Deborah- just home. I'll message more info tomorrow, I already posted the birth for Vera- registered first quarter 1924:

Births Mar 1924
Collins Vera (Mother's maiden name: Griffin) Congleton 8a 454

Parents were Henry Collins and Louisa nee Griffin- Vera had many siblings. (Henry married Clara in 1931).

Possible death for mother, Louisa:

Deaths Jun 1930
Collins Louisa 44 Stoke T. 6b 156

Ok that makes more sense. The birth dates could be different as the mother died. If you have a lot of children it might be hard to remember them all I guess!! Lol

I have sent simple laymans details to Deborah and hopefully gone though the findings so hopefully made it easy to follow ,hard without a voice to explain........gave pointers of some contact,

Marjorie/Margery may have been an inlaw or cousin?

Have sent some details of marriages for Sandra , and in case no one has yet sent or Deborah hasn't noticed herself, the two Sendall/Collins children were also reg 'later' as well as their original birth years.

Has anyone traced Lydia yet? I don't want to duplicate if you already have :-)

Almost certain link on FB, son and daughter

all pointers covered Rose.but kept as private information......

I'm in contact with my cousins now - Lydia is the daughter of Keith named after her aunt!

My aunt Sandra has not been in contact with them since she learned that her mother Vera had an earlier marriage.

It's going to be tough - no one knew about my father.

Thank you so much. I can't say how much this has affected me.

Sorry Deborah it's been a busy day- I meant to answer earlier. So pleased you've made contact, and I hope, through contact with wider family, that some of the questions you have might be answered.

Just in reply to Kay- Margery/ Marjorie was Vera's sister (not cousin or in-law).

Deborah- I'm not sure what you meant by " The birth dates could be different as the mother died. If you have a lot of children it might be hard to remember them all I guess!! Lol" ???

The older children did not appear on the 1939 register with their father as they'd left home.

Vera's birth date was different on documentation. Marriage certificate and census. Or death certificate... I've seen too many dates this last week.

There is no contact with Sandra Alexander/Sendall with the relatives I've spoken too, but I'm sure they will now turn up.