bethnal green

I am quite confused about a group of families with surnames Thompson, Hunt or Hind, and Wathen, who have some children born post 1837, so they can be searched for in the BMD records, but the rest arrived pre-BMD. Both sets of people are mixed across various trees and websites and I need new eyes...

I discovered rather late in life that my father and mother, both separated from their respective spouses, had a wartime relationship. It took a long time to discover his surname -- Duranch on his death certificate -- and a visit to the Family Records Office failed to uncover details of his...