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Many. Thanks Catherine for your help, it certainly has solved a mystery regarding the bogus passport. I see that he had a daughter by his 1st marriage a Dorothy May Wood age 8 yrs on the 1911 census ,obviously when he went to West Africa she was left behind presume with his parents. We certainly never heard about her in the Hampson family.

Looking at all the information above , there seems to be an uncanny resemblance between the 2 Edwin Woods, both had a father Thomas, mine married a Rhoda Pollard 1902 Burnley, the other Edwin had a mother Rhoda. Stated on my Edwin's marriage certificate ,he was a Secretary to a Limited Company, the other Edwin had the same career as stated on the 1911 census.Mine stated as being a Bookkeeper in the 1911 census , and on his Medical record, the other Edwin being a Bookkeeper in the 1901 census. Both had a sister with the initial L hence the Mrs L Hundle when mine went to Canada on Lemuel Hampsons passport. Without you to help me I wouldn't,t know which Edwin it would have been. Certainly my one comes out as not too good a person, leaving a child behind, clearing off to West Africa during WW1 returning and joining the Army only to be in it for 17 days, then clearing off to Canada after only being married to my Grandmother for a year and on her late husbands passport. Looking at the photo I have of him, he is such a handsome chap, he didn't look that sort of a person. Oh well they always say there is a skeleton in the family, he is ours.. I am on Genes under my husbands name but I am Josephine and the family is mine.