I would concentrate on finding the divorce papers. I think those are your
best bet to find out a little more about your grandparents. The possibility
that they failed to obtain a divorce and file paperwork of some sort are
extremely rare since they both remarried. Look in neighboring counties,
states, Las Vegas, Mexico, who knows, but that would be where I would start.
Have you looked in city directories to be sure of exactly where they lived,
in between the census years? Check tax records if they owned a home. And
yes, I would look under the maiden name of the mother and her married name
(Bray).
To find out if Julia was your grandfather's daughter, you would definitely
need a DNA test, but if she was born in 1928, you best hurry.
Another possibility is that the baby, although not still born, died shortly
after birth, and it was never given a name at all. Sometimes it took awhile
for parents to decide on a name, and the name may be Baby Girl Long
(McNally or Bray). It is also possible that the birth (and subsequent
death) were never recorded.
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I found out that my grandfather had a child that died in the 1920's, but I
can't find that record of the birth or death, or obit, place of burial. So
I wonder if this child really did die.
Here is my story. > I need to find this missing person (more below)
I have looked every where for this lost little girl that I have been told
about for 30 some years. Here is my story.
My grandfather Alfred West Long (1902-1975) married Mildred Helen McNally
(1907-1980) in 1923. Helen was 16 when she married my grandfather. Both are
from Connersville, Indiana, but my grandfather might have been born in
Union county, Indiana. The story goes, those two had a baby, but the baby,
which was a girl died. (so I've been told)
My grandfather was remarried to my grandmother Lillian Gabbard Long by
1931, and Mildred was remarried in April 1928, and (Mildred and her new
husband Dale) had a baby girl named Julia by December 1928. Mildred married
Dale Bray and they had three children, the oldest being Julia born in 1928.
If Helen married Dale in april of 1928, then she was about a month pregnant
before she married him. MY THEORY is that perhaps this baby never died,(as
my grandfather Alfred Long said) but my grandfather said the baby did so he
could accept it. Because he knew he may never see his child again. (I'm not
saying this is true, but it seems that it could be possible). Julia is
Mildreds mothers name.
In all my genealogical searches (of
Ancestry.com, Family search, census
online), I have never found a birth, or death of this baby. I did find a
marriage licence of Mildred and Alfred, but that was it. I'd like to know
the name of this little girl, what she died of, where she's buried. (I'd
also like to know if it's a possibility that Mildred and Dales first little
girl was really my grandfather's daughter) I know you could not tell
without DNA, but if you can't find a baby girl, what else can you assume?
The story I have been told all these years was that my grandfather was
married before my grandmother and their child died. Not due to illness, and
not still born. (I felt like the baby could have died from neglect or
abuse). I don't know if there was a possibility that this baby was buried
under another name. Like Bray, Herman, (Julias mothers second marriage) or
the McNally name. I'm not sure of what rights if any that the father had.
Or if they had any. I never found divorce papers on my grandfather alfred
and Mildred. So there are lots of mysteries here.
I hope you can help me
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