Old Family Mystery

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Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Hello Gentlemen and Fair Ladies.

I need some input and brainstorming ideas from our Australian and American members.

... she could not take it anymore and disappeared on the family to start another life somewhere else in England.

In the late 1930's, one of my grandmothers older sisters received an anonymous postcard style photo of my grandmother, taken at a professional studio somewhere. In the photo, she is seated with three young boys, none of whom the family recognizes. The information on the back of the photo related to the photographer had all been rubbed away.

... formally asked the authorities if they could trace her. They could find nothing and suspected she had changed her name via a Deed Poll, which makes it very tough to trace her, not knowing her new name.

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David

If those three boys were hers by a new husband, then she would be a polygamist and in violation of whatever applicable civil statures were in effect. The first one evidently never divorced her (or knew where to serve papers, either).