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Looking to find twins born between 1940-1948 to Marshall. We think a Steven Tatum has tried to locate us but we can’t find a message to reply.

Please could you delete the copy of this thread, thanks.

There are several people who have a Marshall ( Colchester 1922) in their tree, but non are named Steven.

Are you sure the message was on Genes?

That’s him and yes the message was in a post from a Steven Tatum mothers maiden name Bailey

I can’t locate it now but have found the record for Steven’s birth but can’t locate him on a tree to message him

According to freebmd there is no e - Baily.

Have you tried looking for Steven on Electoral Rolls - presuming he is still on the UK.

He is on the ER in 2024

If you’re looking for children of a specific individual, find out who he married and then look for births.

Steven is not a twin, and his father was not Marshall

No-one with the name Steven Tatum is a member of this site

Marshall would have been only 18 in 1940 - and records suggest that he didn’t marry for what seems to have been the first time until some years later

If he fathered illegitimate twins, they would almost certainly have been registered in the mother’s name.

Get a copy of his death certificate to find out if a ‘child’ registered the event

Is that your tree on GR with his birth as 1912?

Are you in contact with all the GR members who have him in their trees with birth year 1922?

One of Marshall's daughters has a tree on Ancestry.

She gives his DOB as 22 July 1922.
She says his first marriage was in 1945, and that "Uncle Billy" thinks there were no children.
There certainly aren't any showing on FreeBMD.

Marriages Dec 1945 (>99%)
Earforth Emily Tatum Ashford 2a 3971
Tatum Marshall J Earforth Ashford 2a 3971

Emily's birth record in 1924 gives her surname as Garforth.
The names Garforth and Earforth are both transcribed as they are shown on the GRO Index.

They divorced in 1950, and Marshall remarried just a few days later.
From the second marriage he had three children - one of them mis-spelled as Tattum on FreeBMD and GRO Index.

But as ErikaH says, any illegitimate children would almost certainly have been registered under the mother's surname.

Name Marshall Tatum
Gender Male
Death Age 68
Birth Date abt 1922
Death Date 31 Dec 1990
Obituary Date 4 Jan 1991
Obituary Place London, Greater London, England
Newspaper Title The Daily Telegraph
Spouse Greta


Name Greta Rickard Tatum
Death Age 83
Birth Date 24 Jan 1920
Registration Date Nov 2003
Registration District Oxfordshire
Inferred County Oxfordshire
Register Number G04D
District and Subdistrict 695/1G

What info do you have which leads you to the conclusion that the man fathered twins?

Further to AG's post, the first wife re-married

Marriages Jun 1952 (>99%)
Button Robert G Tatum Ashford 5b 61
Button Robert G Garforth Ashford 5b 61
Garforth Emily Button Ashford 5b 61
TATUM Emily BUTTON Ashford 5b 61

BUTTON, EMILY 1924
GRO Reference: DOR Q4/2009 in KENT (5641P) Reg 1P011 Entry Number 502375378

PM sent advising of the need to return - OPENED, but no reaction

A nice little write-up of his first wedding in 'newspapers' on FMP