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From: Ray Lewis <>
Subject: Re: [MON] HEWSON/WILLIAMS Marriage & death record
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:15:43 +0900
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G'day Dick

Have you considered that yur ggparents may not have married? It could be
that either one or both could have had an encumbrance (real or imagined)
which prevented them from marriage. There are, as yet, no marriages
shown for them on FreeBMD although the transcriptions are reasonably
complete, FreeBMD gives no guarantee that they ever will be because of
the very nature of the system. You will have tried the surname
combination search, with or without the various forenames, I am sure.
This worked vey well for one of my colleagues just yesterday when she
found one of her ggrandparents second marriage in Middlesex when she had
always thought that he had not married again. She had not realised that
you could do searches using just one person's given and their two surnames.

As for a will, it may not have been necessary. After all, wills cost
money to administer and your ggparents may have decided that they did
not want to give money to solicitors and/or trustees. They might have
distributed their family belongings in such a way as to preclude the
necessity for a will. There is a death for a Mary Hewson, aged 45, at
Newport, M for September Quarter 1897 (11a/100) on FreeBMD but nothing
for FHH or WFHH or combination of those names, so far anywhere on
FreeBMD between 1890 and 1910.

Sorry not to be of much help, but it could be that someone else on the
list has better news.

Regards
Ray Lewis
Hazelmere Western Australia

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