Missing bride

[SharonKef]

Checking to see if there was a marriage record for Albert G(eorge) Wicks I found a possibility but his is the only name on the page. It looks like the page number is incomplete so maybe that's why?
It's in the Free BMD Marriage Index, 1910, (Jul-Sep) Bradfield, Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire
Vol 2C Page 7_2

I looked at the list of pages for Vol 2C on the Free BMD website and could find only one other page reference starting in 7 & and ending in 2 (762) which led me to Adelaide E Crawford. Is it a fair bet that she's the missing bride or could the mystery woman just as easily be on a different page?

Sharon

[Coromandel]

If you look at the scan of the relevant page of the GRO index (which you can do by clicking on the little pair of spectacles on the right-hand end of the FreeBMD entry) you can see the page number for yourself. The middle digit is either a 6 or an 8, I think. Looking at the page numbers for other marriages in the Bradfield district that quarter, the highest seem to be in the 760s, so I don't think it can be 782.

So I would say it is 762 and that you've found Albert's wife!

[Devonmade]

Albert Gerald Wicks and Adelaide Emma Wicks are residing in Tilehurst, nr Reading, Berkshire in 1911. So looks as though you may be correct.

[Colin Rowledge]

FMP has page transcribed as 762 Adelaide E. Crawford married Albert G. Wicks

Colin

[SharonKef]

Thanks guys, between you you've solved it.

The marriage was in Bradfield Berks, which wasn't a familiar placename to me. When I looked up the 1911 census reference you quoted and tracked it back to the birth of Albert Gerald it became clear Adelaide E was married to a different Albert G than the one I was looking for.

Cheers, Sharon.

[Coromandel]

Is your Albert the Albert George Wicks whose birth was registered in the third quarter of 1877 in the Wokingham district, by any chance? And is he the same as the one in Hurst, Berkshire, in 1881 with father Lewis Wicks (stableman)? (RG 11/1312, f.81, p.1)

If so it looks as if his story has a sad end: 5088 Private Albert George Wicks, of "C" Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, is listed on the Commomwealth War Graves Commission website as having died on 7 May 1918 and being buried or commemorated at Gonnehem British Cemetery, France. He is shown as 40 years old and the son of Lewis Wicks of Binfield, Berks.

[SharonKef]

Spot on. This is, indeed, the man. Unfortunately, I discovered his brother James William was also killed in action - at the Battle of Pozieres in 1916. It makes the statistics all very personal when you realise how so many families must have been ripped apart this way.
Thanks again
Sharon