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Thanks DeTecTive. Didn't realise that Lyn already had this information.

Seems strange that the family decided to use Ann's first married name rather than her maiden name???

Kath. x

Lynn, if you can access findmypast before midnight tonight 1st Jan 2016, you can pay to view the 1939 entry for half price for one household. Enter the code XMAS1939

Angela, another GR member, posted the info on the 1939 Register thread (last page)
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1355773

As no one is quite sure who the redacted person is, you won't be able to ask for it to be opened. Only those who born before Jan 1916, were deceased before 1991, or for whom you are able to provide a DC, will be opened. No exceptions

Kath - I was looking for the Fugazza name. There were a slew of announcements in The Gazette at the beginning of WW2, mainly by women who wanted to formaly take a possible partner's name. It must have been causing problems knowing they needed to register and their 'little secret' being made public! ;-)

As it happens, the only 2 entries refer to a bankruptcy/winding-up and seizure of goods in 1974 & 1980

Mary Ann Pickering in 1939??


1939 REGISTER

Elizabeth Bell 1859 Chester-le-Street R.D. Durham

Elizabeth Bell 1888 Chester-le-Street R.D. Durham

>>>>>>Mary Ann Black 1902 Chester-le-Street R.D. Durham

Annie Pickering 1875 Chester-le-Street R.D. Durham

Frederick Pickering 1898 Chester-le-Street R.D. Durham

Robert Pickering 1870 Chester-le-Street R.D. Durham


??

Marriages Mar 1947 (>99%)

Black William R Pickering Durham N. 1a 922

Pickering Mary A Black Durham N. 1a 922

That sounds like a good possibility Choccy, although I was looking at this record:-

Pickering Household
Hackney, London, England
FIRST NAME(S) LAST NAME(S) BIRTH YEAR
Mary A Pickering 1901

Although the birth year is one year out Hackney is where Lyn's father was born. She seems to be living alone. Buying this record would give her occupation (which on the birth certificate of Lyn's father was General Cook).

Kath. x

These are dad adopted parents. They were elderly. Both had been married before and their spouses died. Ann had a son Charles and Francis a daughter florance. Francis had also lost about four children. I met them when i was a child, they were in their nineties.

Dad remembers visiting Duran before the war. I showed him pictures of don't crescent and he seemed to recognise it. He said the houses were bungalows.

The fugazzas became manning because fugazza is an Italian name and such names were not popular at that time. Manning was Ann's previous married name. Her maiden name Owen though that had also been changed her original name was pushcke ( her dad was from Prussia).

Could this be the death of the Mary Ann Black from the 1939 Register that Choccy found? :-

First name(s) MARY ANN
Last name BLACK
Gender Female
Birth day 16
Birth month 3
Birth year 1902
Age -
Death quarter 4
Death year 1998
District SUNDERLAND
District number 0581B
Register number B57E
Entry number 200
Date of registration mm/yy 1098
County Durham
Country England

Kath. x

When using the birth date of 16th March 1902 to search the 1939 Register, Mary Ann Black of the Chester-le-Street address posted previously gives that birth date


Your search criteria

Mary First name(s)

Black Last name(s)

1902 Birth year

16 Birth day

03 Birth month

Mary Ann Black 1902 Chester-le-Street R.D. Durham

Thanks everyone this looks promising. Just need to tie it in.