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Hi,

I am new here and I am looking for information and to find people connected to my Dad. I am aware that I may have siblings I did not know about prior to this.

Areas he was known to frequent: Washington Tyne & Wear, Warrington & Runcorn, Yorkshire, Portsmouth, Swansea, Glasgow (Renfrewshire)

Names he was connected to: Moxham, Ather, Chapman, Wingate, Gill.

Dad was married 10 or 11 times in his life, so there could be a lot of living relatives to find1!

Many thanks for any help.

Try free bmd for his birth and mmn and then follow through on any possible marriages

There is a Georgina who has his in their tree as well as yourself

Are you in contact with her ?

Only Ather marriage shows on ancestry in1974

There is more than one Derrick Norton so are you sure of all the marriages

FMP shows more of the names you mention and some are only a year apart so seem unlikely time wise to marry ,divorce and remarry ?

Hi Shirley,

I have sent a message to Georgina. His date of birth was 10th December 1953.

He died last year and although I have always been aware that I have siblings I've not met, there was a name that cropped up in his papers that I've not heard before - Phoebe. It's why I am now bothering to try and find living relatives because it's annoying me that this name isn't fitting anywhere! :-D

Many thanks for your help!

Dad didn't have a middle name, which does make it easier. My Mum was marriage number 3 and there are some in quick succession. I've been trying to find a divorce search engine but they all seem super expensive or not particularly useful.

TBH, it's unrealistic to think that he married as often as you suggest, although he could obviously have had liaisons with any number of women

You say he was in Glasgow at some time, so look at Scotland’s people to see if he married there. (BTW, purely for info, Glasgow has never been in Renfrewshire - it was historically in Lanarkshire before becoming a separate entity- )

Any children fathered out of wedlock - anywhere - may be registered only in the mother’s surname

Have you had contact with any of your father’s siblings?

Not many divorce records have survived and won’t be online anyway

Look on freebmd. There’s one child from the first marriage mmn Ather

Moxham isn’t actually a name linked to your father - your mother’s maiden name was Burgess

There is a marriage in 1979 to a Moxham but it’s very close to another marriage so may not be the same man

Shirley..........the marriage to Moxham is to the poster's mother -see my post at 09.45

Marriages Mar 1941 (>99%)
Norton Joseph Quinn Durham N. 10a 1254
QUINN Ellen Norton Durham N. 10a 1254

5 children

Two marriages for his name in Scotland.................which is where he died. Both were to women who had been married before

Death
NORTON
DERRICK
66
QUINN
2020
650/ 187
Eastwood and Mearns

His mother's family in 1939
6 The Terraces, Washington, Washington U.D., Durham, England
John Quinn 24 Nov 1893 Male General Labourer Married 113 1
Annie Quinn 16 Mar 1896 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 113 2
Ellen Norton (Quinn) 03 Jun 1919 Female Domestic Looking For Work Single 113 3
The record for this person is officially closed.
Raymond Quinn 30 Aug 1929 Male At School Single 113 5
Lawrence Quinn 30 Aug 1931 Male At School Single 113 6
Annie Robson (Quinn) 10 Sep 1933 Female At School Single 113 7

I think it unlikely that the man on the ER in Warrington for the period 1998-2018 is the same as the one in Paisley for exactly the same period. It is illegal to register to vote more than once

Claire must be in contact with the child with Ather - she has her in her GR tree, and site rules stipulate that living people must not be included unless they have given permission

SP site has records of recent divorces - there are NONE for your father's name

You say that your mother was his third wife............has she told you that? Or have you just made assumptions having looked at records for his name?

The 1973 marriage in Claro was a man born in 1947 who happened to share your father's name

The one who married in 1991 was born in 1969 in the place where he married