sowery troy / lough HELP !!!!!

[ann johnston]

hi i do hope someone can help me with the following i have hit a dead end if not i do hope someone can point me in the right direction

Hi

I am hoping someone will be able to help me, I am researching my family tree and I am trying to unravel a mystery
My gran a BERTHA SOWERY born in 1898 then ended up a BERTHA SOWERY TROY due to her mother from what I can gather not marrying the father

She then somewhere along the line got married and became a BERTHA LOUTH
She then got married again in 1927 and then she became a BERTHA BAGLEY

The info I am trying to find out is when did she become a BERTHA LOUTH
She I think ended up in Australia I remember when she died finding letters in her house saying that her husband LOUTH was a deserter of the Australian army and was presumed dead I then know she ended back up in England where she married my granddad in 1927

The mystery in when did she become a LOUTH and also who was her 1st husband that was in the Australian Army

I do hope someone can help me

Thank


Ann

[Jo Simpsons]

This doesn't help with your query but did you see them on the 1901 census?

Jo

[ann johnston]

hi

thanks for replying jo
no i havent seen them unless someone else can find them she is down as a BERTHA SOWERY TROY on a census living with her mother and her father but after that i am lost but i get the impression she did not marry in australia and i have not got a clue what she was doing over there we have no family ties whatsoever over there all i know is i found letters saying your husband is presumed dead at the time i never thought to keep them but thats all i know
unfortunately


ann

[Jo Simpsons]

Hi Ann,
the 1901 census shows Bertha and her family, her mother Mary Emma Sowery was a servant for William Troy and his girls. I have sent you the census.
Jo

[kmdward]

Your Bertha could have met 1st husband Louth in England, most Australian soldeirs who served in Europe during WWI went via the UK, so they could have met and married there. So I would check marriage indexes in england during the war for Bertha and Louth.

[Procat]

The Australian Nominal Roll of Honour for WWI (at http://www.awm.gov.au/database/nroll.asp) does not record any soldier by the name of LOUTH. There are however a small number of LOUGH.

[ann johnston]

thanks everyone

i feel myself she would have married over here too as i can not see any reason for here even going to australia as my mother never mentioned it and my gran didnt either all this was only discovered when i cleared her house out after she died thing is i found loads of death birth marriage certificates and also letters at the time fromt he army ...... but not thinking then i tipped them argh !!!!!! could kick myself now
i just hope i can piece it all together


thnaks very much you are all so helpful on this site
very much appreciated


ann