Married Twice Maybe?

Discussion in Genealogy Forum started by Jean Gebhard, Mar 20, 2017
JG
Jean Gebhard
I know i have posted about this before , but in light of some new information, I need a little help. I have been searching for my great grandmothers parents and after the better part of two years I am frustrated.

I can find absolutely nothing about her before she married my great grand father. I noticed the other day that on a 1930"s census that she was 17 when she first got married. I am thinking that maybe she was married twice. This is the info I do have,

Bertha T Lynch (maybe a married name) October 22, 1881 New Jersey

Married George Cox on February 10, 1904 in West Chester Pa.

Some time between 1940 and 1950 they moved to Rockland County New York.

I did find an article about a golden wedding anniversary their children hosted for them. The article stated Bertha had 3 sisters and a brother but gave no names.

She died in January 1960 in Suffern New York.

I am unsure how to search for a possible marriage record without a birth surname.

RB
Robert Burns
You say you have a "1930"s census that she was 17". That makes her birth date 1903, yet you say she was born in 1881.

All birth info I can find is for:

Name: Bertha T Lynch

Birth Date: 7 Nov 1905

Birth Place: Bronx, New York, USA

Certificate Number: 5678

in the New York, New York, Birth Index, 1878-1909.

This can be purchased from this web site:

https://www1.nyc.gov/dorforms/birthcert.htm

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Found a Bertha Cox in Find a grave:

Name: Bertha T. Cox

Birth Date: 1881

Death Date: 1960

Cemetery: Saint Anthonys Church Cemetery

Burial or Cremation Place: Nanuet, Rockland County, New York, USA

Has Bio?: N

URL: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5823405&ref=acom

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Found Bertha and George Cox in the 1910, 1920, 1930 and 1940 census.

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In the 1900 census I'm finding the following. Not sure if this is your Bertha:

Name: Bertha T Lynch

[Bertha G Lynch]

Age: 25

Birth Date: Jul 1874

Birthplace: Indiana

Home in 1900: Concord, Elkhart, Indiana

Race: White

Gender: Female

Relation to Head of House: Wife

Marital Status: Married

Spouse's Name: William Lynch <-----------------

Marriage Year: 1894

Years Married: 6

Father's Birthplace: Indiana

Mother's Birthplace: Indiana

Mother: number of living children: 0

Mother: How many children: 0

Occupation: View on Image

Neighbors: View others on page

Household Members:

Name Age

William Lynch 29

Bertha T Lynch 25

Albert L Lynch 22

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To sum up, what I'm finding are 3 different Berth Lynch's.

One born 1874, one born 1881 and on born 1905. Not finding any names for her parents.

RJ
R Jensen
Hi,

I think you are reading that 1930 census in the wrong way. That 1st marriage at age 17 is relative to other information given. In this census her age is given as 43 (b.1887). You take the 1st married age of 17 from her present age given 43, you get 26. (43-17=26). The 26 would be tears since married. Take the 26 from the census year 1930 and you get 1904 (1930-26=1904). That is the year of her 1st marriage which is the year they did get married.

You are trying to add the age 17 to to her correct year of birth (1881/1882) to show(hope) a possible previous marriage around 1898/1899. That 17 has to be based on the other info given in the census which is a birth year of 1887 even if that YOB is incorrect. It all relative.

*Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950

Name George G Cox

Event Type Marriage

Event Date 10 Feb 1904

Event Place , Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Event Place (Original) Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

Gender Male

Spouse's Name Bertha J Lynch

Spouse's Gender Female

Page 266

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHN6-F4C

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Also both both the marriage record and the 1910 census state this was her 1st marriage and that she hadn't been married before.

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