I have hit a brick wall & don't know how to carry on. Looking for marriage on Bessie(Elizabeth) Hale to Ernest Arthur Dressler, prob around 1895-1905
Bessie was the dau of Henry Hale b 1849 & Elizabeth (Vera) Critchley.
residents of Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. I have a family photo taken in 1908 before some of the Hale family immigrated to New Zealand. It states that Ernest Dressler was from Germany. They had 2 sons, Fritz & Franz.
I have tried variation of the names, Arthur Ernest or just Bessie to no avail.
I am presuming that these two married in Gloucestershire, where the big hale family resided. apparently contact was lost after WW1.
Can anybody point me in the right direction?

ubuthebirman - 2019-10-06 17:29:00

https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
is your best bet for England / Wales marriages; & births less than 100 years ago; also deaths not covered by the office of the Registrar General.

But I'm struggling. Consider an anglicised name, especially during & after WW1. Were Fritz & Franz born in England?

stock - 2019-10-06 21:57:00

I've been looking too but haven't had any luck. I have a lot of family from the Forest.

Have you seen this website

https://forest-of-dean.net/joomla/

It's loaded with information and records. You may find something useful there.

daisy86 - 2019-10-08 12:52:00

what proof do you have that they married

crab2 - 2019-10-08 16:10:00

can you tell us who Henry's and Elizabeth's children's names are, I have this 1891 UK Census but need to the names to prove I have the right family...Bessie Hale
in the 1891 England Census.....
Name: Bessie Hale
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Relationship: Daughter
Birth Year: 1875
Father: Henry Hale
Mother: Elizath Hale
Birth Place: Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England
Civil Parish: East Dean
Residence Place: Ruspidge, East Dean, Gloucestershire, England
Sub registration district: Newnham
ED, Institution or Vessel: 19
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 2005
Folio: 103
Household Members:
Name Age
Henry Hale 43
Elizath Hale 41
Henry Hale 17
Bessie Hale 16
John Hale 14
Joseph Hale 13
Sarah Hale 11
Fred L Hale 9
Earnest Hale 6
Frank Hale 4
Harbert Hale 8/12

crab2 - 2019-10-08 20:21:00

Thank you to all.
crab2- yes you have the correct family. Henrys 1st wife Elizabeth d. 1892. He then remarried Alice Brown. yes that is my 'bessie' in the 1891 census, she was single then. So between then & 1908 she marr & had 2 sons, who look abt 3-4yrs in faded photo. I have been on the Forest of Dean/Hale web sites but no luck. But I have no proof that she married unfortunately

Edited by ubuthebirman at 8:56 pm, Tue 8 Oct

ubuthebirman - 2019-10-08 20:47:00

ok, I'll have a look tomorrow and see if I can find that missing Bessie for you, am a bit tired now as have been working on a friends partner's father's history as he died when she was still young so am brain fried lol

crab2 - 2019-10-08 21:36:00

I'm not having any luck sorry

crab2 - 2019-10-09 14:23:00

crab2- i have spent hours of this search in past 2 days & no luck either. Wondering if Bessie & Ernest immigrated, but still cant find a marr cert, or births of Franz & Fritz , sons , even in Gloucestershire or Germany. Did find a Franz Dressler death in Germany 1945, on a war memorial, but cant clarify if he is a son . Grrrrrrr!!

ubuthebirman - 2019-10-10 09:50:00

More info to the above Dressler/Hale. Arthur Otto Karl Gustav Dressler & Elizabeth Dressler (nee Hale) - son b. 30/8/1902- Arthur Heinrich Hermann Dressler. Magdberg Germany.
Found on Ancestry. havent found the marriage yet nor the other sons births- Franz (Francis) & Fritz (Friedrich or Frederick)
Any body able to help further, there are so many Arthur Dresslers!!

ubuthebirman - 2019-10-13 21:17:00