FreeBMD gives me :-
Marriages Dec 1884
Strand 1b 1025
LEHR Christian Jacob H L
McGurk James
Prosser Mary
Turnbull Edith Ella
Other than purchasing the marriage certificate can anyone suggest how I might determine which of Lehr and McGurk is the husband of Edith.
thanks
daryl
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Thread: Edith Ella Turnbull
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25-11-2009, 7:55 AM #1
Edith Ella Turnbull
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25-11-2009, 8:00 AM #2Jan1954Guest
If you have access, try to follow the couples in the censuses to see who married who.
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25-11-2009, 8:24 AM #3josie7644Guest
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25-11-2009, 11:00 PM #4
Thanks Josie. Eliminating James McGurk as marrying Mary Prosser is (almost) as good as confirming that Christian Lehr married Edith Turnbull -
Thanks again
daryl
Thanks for your reply too jan1954 - you were so prompt that I am sure the ink hadn't dried on my post
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22-07-2015, 3:17 AM #5
Edith Ella Lehr had a son Christian Gawin Paul August Armin Lehr born in Berlin 16 October 1885. (not sure about the transliteration of the name but that is what showed up). The image of the actual record is in a handwriting that I cannot read easily BUT what is clear is Edith Ella Lehr [born] Turnbull. Christian shows up in military records as Armin Lehr (born 16 Oct 1885 parents given as Christian and Edith E Lehr born Turnbull who appear to be in Munich). There appear to be some details about his service but, for the moment, I am thwarted by the handwriting.
As I determine it the younger Christian Lehr is my second cousin twice removed.
Great progress but I cannot find the elder Christian Lehr at all and nothing more on the younger Christian Lehr (did he survive the war?) or Edith Ella Lehr (did she have any more children? Did she return to England?).
Any ideas?
thanks
daryl
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22-07-2015, 7:22 AM #6
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Morning Post, 27 Dec 1884
LEHR-TURNBULL - On the 18th inst, at the German Chapel, Royal St James, by the Rev Dr. Walbaum, Christian Lehr, of Berlin, to Edith Ella Turnbull, youngest daughter of the late Gavin Turnbull, surgeon-major, 20th Hussars"dyfal donc a dyr y garreg"
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22-07-2015, 9:12 PM #7
Thanks helachau. That is almost as good as getting the marriage certificate.
ps love the quote - very apt for genealogy
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23-07-2015, 6:29 AM #8
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Indeed - "brick walls" look out!
Best of luck with the search."dyfal donc a dyr y garreg"
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28-01-2016, 7:20 AM #9
A search on the name Lehr-Turnbull has turned up an intriguing link.
On the COPAC website
Title: The Swiss advertiser, conducted by C. Lehr-Turnbull.
Other titles: Swiss advertiser
Frequency: Completely irregular
Published: Berne, 1904
Physical description: cm.32 & 34.
Notes:
Vol.1, no.1-24.
[Incorporated with The English herald].
Other names: Turnbull, C Lehr- [ed]
I cannot find any other reference at all to "C Lehr-Turnbull"
Any ideas?
thanks
daryl
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