Looking for a marriage in FMP

Question

I am looking for the marriage in the Registry of British Nationals married Overseas between 1818 and 2005, which appears to only be available on FMP.

I do not have any first names - only surnames, a date and a location. They were both british nationals. He was english - possibly from Lancs - and she may have been from Scotland.

Male Dodson and Female Mailer were married in 1934 in Arusha, Tanzania (or Tanganyika as it may have been called back then). Possibly in January but I dont know for sure.

I am looking for their first/middle names.

A specific date of the wedding would be helpful as well.

Thank you.

Comments

Thanks Ellen. I didnt realise there was a tag for FMP.

Answer 1

Going to look for him now

First name(s) Emily J M

Last name Mailer

Sex Female

Marriage year 1934

Marriage place Arusha

Place type Place

Country Tanzania

Type Armed Forces

Source Gro Index Army Marriages (1881 To 1955)

Records year range 1934

Archive reference ARM2

Page SEE 1966 (11) 1

Line number 1

Archive

General Register Office

Record set British Armed Forces And Overseas Banns And Marriages

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Civil Marriage & Divorce

Collections from Great Britain, UK None

https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=BMD%2FOVS%2FARM2%2F000313%2F001

Comments

Prepare to be confounded!!! Maybe somebody was a naughty boy?

First name(s) Harold M

Last name Dodson

Sex Male

Marriage year 1966

MarriageFinder ™

Harold M Dodson married one of these people

Emily J Mailer

Marriage place Nairobi

Place type Place

Country Kenya

Type Armed Forces

Source Gro Marriages Abroad (1966 To 1994)

Records year range 1966

Archive reference MABR

Volume F (British armed forces - Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy)

Page 357

Line number 2

Archive

General Register Office

Record set British Armed Forces And Overseas Banns And Marriages

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Civil Marriage & Divorce

Collections from Great Britain, UK None

https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=BMD%2FOVS%2FMABR%2F000011%2F002

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It gets worse 

First name(s) Harold M

Last name Dodson

Sex Male

Marriage year 1954

Marriage place Arusha

Place type Place

Country Tanzania

Type Armed Forces

Source Gro Index Army Marriages (1881 To 1955)

Records year range 1954

Archive reference ARM2

Page SEE 1966 (11)1

Line number 1

Archive

General Register Office

Record set British Armed Forces And Overseas Banns And Marriages

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Civil Marriage & Divorce

Collections from Great Britain, UK None

https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=BMD%2FOVS%2FARM2%2F000297%2F001

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Possible?

First name(s) HAROLD MIDELTON

Last name DODSON

Birth year 1898

Birth quarter 1

Registration month -

Mother's maiden name Midelton

District Chorlton

County Lancashire

Country England

Volume 8C

Page 732

Record set England & Wales Births 1837-2006

Category Life Events (BDMs)

Subcategory Civil Births

Collections from Great Britain, England

https://www.findmypast.com.au/transcript?id=BMD%2FB%2F1898%2F1%2FAZ%2F000163%2F246

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Thank you so much Marion. That is excellent.

I had a family of several boys in the 1911 census and I had no idea which one of those brothers was the right one.

I am using the hints dropped in the memoirs book written by the granddaughter which I have been reading.

Harold Midleton is indeed one of the brothers names.

Now I can start the tree!!

Thank you again, so much!!

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I think that 1954 year was maybe mistranscribed from 1934?

3 and 5 can look similar depending on whose doing the writing.

The daughter was born back in England in 1937 and the granddaughter was born in the 1960s. I am reading her memoirs.