Hi Guys, I am wondering if someone may be able to help me - this particular brick wall is driving me insane!!!
My Great Aunt Mollie (actually called Mary Ann Fell) married in 1916 in England to a gentleman called William Ashworth. They moved to New York in 1922 living with a family with the surname Greenwood in the Bronx.
Before 1930, William Ashworth died (Mary is noted on the 1930 census as widowed and living with Alfred Greenwood, his stepmother Harriet Ann Greenwood and Alfred's son, Alfred). In 1940 she is married to Alfred Greenwood and living at 296 East 143th Street, Bronx.
I am currently unable to find any marriage for Alfred and Mary Ann, nor a death for them or Mary Ann's first husband William Ashworth.
The information I know for definite is:
Mary Ann Fell born dec 1895 in Stacksteads, Bacup, Lancashire, England. Married William Ashworth in 1916 in Haslingden, Lancashire, England. Travelled to America in 1922 and William died prior to 1930. Sometime between 1920-1930 Mary Ann Ashworth (nee Fell), married Alfred Greenwood, born 26 Oct 1894 in Sanford, Maine, US to Richard Greenwood and Jane Ann Howarth (both English). Richard travelled regularly between England and the US from 1886 right up until 1920's. I cannot find any records of death/marriage for any of them (other than a marriage for Richard and Jane A Howarth in Maine).
Sorry I should have also said that I know, from census records that Alfred Greenwood had been married prior to his marriage to Mary Ann, but I do not know his first wife's name, but she was born in New York). They married approx 1915 and had a son called Alfred born in New York in 1919
His Father Richard Greenwood, had been married prior to his marriage to Jane Ann Howarth (they married on 20 January 1894 in Maine). Again I do not know his first wife's name or whether she was English or American, or indeed where they married. His third wife, Harriet Ann married Richard in approx 1918 after arriving in the US in 1907. I do not know whether she had been married previously and can find no record for her marriage to Richard.
Is there anyone who can help, or at least point me in the right direction.
Cheers