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Can't find the ad and review on the Internet do I need to subscribe and pay to see newspaper info? 

Thanks for your help. Have all the details of births and family of Will and Kathleen and also can go right back in Kathleen's family as she was born Helen Howard Johnson and her father Thomas Gilpin Johnson was a man of the church. Would like to find out more about the family as players. We believe that will had to change his name from Hinsley to Hayden because the family didn't approve of his profession ( he was also an artist mainly water colors).

i have asked about the difference in birth dates and it has been suggested that when the pension started people made out they were older than they actually were. 

From FreeBMD you can see that he married Constance HEAL in the Registration District of Blyth in the Sept Quarter of 1937.  She gained a divorce in May 1948 - so the marriage lasted a little longer than you thought. (in The Western Daily Press of 28th May 1848 - British Newspaper Archives) - Her address is given as Huntspill, Highbridge.  It seems likely that she remained in the area.

Although he died in Weston in 1978 he does not appear in the 1974 Directory as a householder perhaps the place of his death on the certificate or the informant may give you a clue for further research.  There is a possibility that there might be an entry in a local newspaper at the time of his death. Weston Newspapers are in Weston Library. See here for details and an email address to contact the library with any queries.

The London Gazette has a record in its edition of the 5th Nov 1948 that he was promoted to 2nd Lt for working with the Army Cadet Force see here for the actual entry.

As you no doubt know there are several more marriages for a James B COCKBURN on FreeBMD after 1948 but they may not all be the same man.  Do you know the names of the other wives?

William Mitchell. Son of Thomas MItchell married Susanna Tarr in 1857 He was the master of "The Lively" 

I've just come across the births of two of the HINSLEY children in the Axbridge Registration District.  As there are 38 parishes in the Axbridge district, do you have either of their birth certificates which would give the actual place of birth?

The London Metropolitan Archives on Ancestry has an image of the baptism of a William Robert HINSLEY in 1880 at St Anne's Church Bermondsey, with his birth date given as 29th Aug 1880 and father named as John HINSLEY, school teacher.  On the 1881,1891 and 1901 censuses his father (still a school teacher) is a George HINSLEY, so presumably there is an error in the church register.

However, this can't be the correct William Robert HINSLEY because because your own family tree on Ancestry has William's date of birth as 1876 and his father's name as William - What were your sources for that information - I'm obviously looking in the wrong place!

hi was your william mitchell married to susanna tarr, i have mitchell in my family tree if you would like to get in touch.