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Trying to trace my grandmother

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Re: Trying to trace my grandmother

Posted: 25 Apr 2015 6:59AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 27 Apr 2015 2:58PM GMT
Yesss, names do tend to help a teeny bit. :) :)

For British citizens who marry overseas, or who are born overseas, there are two registration systems for registering their marriage or birth with the UK General Register Office, a diplomatic system for civilians, and a military system for service personnel.

However UK registration for overseas marriages or births which involve a British citizen isn't a legal requirement, at least certainly not in the case of British civilians, and although British service personnel who marry a foreign national overseas would need their commanding officer's permission to marry, there are numerous instances in which service personnel have married and or registered the births of their children via the local civilian system of the country that those events took place in.

There is no overseas British civilian or military registration for the marriage of your grandparents nor for the birth of their daughter, however there is a military birth registration for the birth of their son, and of course your grandmother travelled to Britain on a British passport which was issued in Hong Kong in her married surname, so there certainly was a marriage.
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