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bigamist

Posted: 9 Dec 2008 2:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Scott-Riddle
My real grandfather was a bigamist. Where will I find information about his criminal record and would he have been charged under his assumed name of Clifton Peter Scott-Riddle (which is on the marriage cert) or his real name (which I do not know). He married my Grandma (Ivy Lee) in March 1939 at Birmingham Register Office. His given address was 43 Tenison Street, Lambeth. Would he have been charged in Birmingham or in London? Please can anyone offer any advice as I am now at a brick wall.
Thanks.

Re: bigamist

Posted: 16 May 2010 11:08PM GMT
Classification: Query
if he is deceased contact the funeral home that handled his arrangements. My grand father was a cad also and he used a fake name but for some reason even though his head stone has his fake name on it his funeral records were all in his real name. Imagine my shock

Re: bigamist

Posted: 17 May 2010 6:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Scott-Riddle
Hi thanks for replying. All the info on my grandmother's marriage cert relating to this man is false. I have no idea even if he was British (he could have been in the Australian Airforce). His father's name and occupation are bogus. I have absolutely no way of finding out who he was other than people remembering hearing about it in 1939 on a local level.
Thanks for your suggestion, all help gratefully received.
Rachel

Re: bigamist

Posted: 1 Jul 2011 10:37PM GMT
Classification: Query
Have you tried right here on ancestry.com. In some cases they list criminal history.

Re: bigamist

Posted: 1 Jul 2011 10:50PM GMT
Classification: Query
I hate to make a joke; but was he trying to say something if he really was a bigamist. Look at his last name -Riddle. It says Scot-Riddle. Take the Riddle off and the Peter and try Clifton Scott or Peter Scott or Clifton Riddle or Peter Riddle and see what you come up with and see which comes closes to lining up with Clifton Peter Scott-Riddle if there is any background on that name. Maybe a marraige certificate would have some info on C. P. S-Riddle. I only say this; because generally sometimes when you have con-artist. They sometimes have a weird sense of humor and enjoy taking an idenity that was stareing someone in the face all the time with them. Did they own the property at 43 Tension Street and did they apply for a loan to get it or was it your Grandmas already.

Re: bigamist

Posted: 2 Jul 2011 1:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Scott-Riddle
Hi there, not surprisingly I have tried every combo of names going. The property in Tenison Street was rented not owned by either Grandma or Scott-Riddle. I have the electoral role for 1938 and 1939 which they don't appear on. There would not be a divorce record as it wasn't needed.But please if you think of anything else that I might try it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Rachel

Re: bigamist

Posted: 3 Jul 2011 4:03AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Jul 2011 4:33AM GMT
I would like to know how you determined that he was a Bigamist. Was this from your family. According to his Wifes family Tree. She remarried about three or four years after she married him. She went onto have three children by this marraige. According to the marraige Certificate for both of them. His last name was Scott Riddle. The wifes family tree refers as Clifton Riddle and drop the Peter Scott. This is where the mix-up probably comes. They just shorten it; because if he had done something wrong. Info. would be hard to come by. I would go with the marrraige certificates. Her certificates list first and last name and his copy list fist and last name and it was Scott Riddle. I came up dead on that search and Clifton Riddle. Please let me know how you determine he was a bigamist. I am very interested. He was too young for WW1. If he lived he would have had to register for WW2 and might have served. She was married only a short time to him. He was only thirty when he married her and probably was married once before for that time and era.

Re: bigamist

Posted: 8 Jul 2015 8:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Scott-Riddle
Hi I know it's ages since these posts. My Grandmother told my Mum about him being already married. She had a visit from a detective in the summer of 1939. My Dad was the product of that relationship born Dec 1939. He was then adopted by Horace Jays in 1944. No signature was required from the birth father because Grandma was his birth mother. I now have my Dad's adoption file but no joy there. My late father has one surviving sister but she will have nothing to do with me because she says I am sullying her mother's memory. But this man would be my biological grandfather and I might have other relatives out there. Any advice greatly appreciated
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