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There's always the possibility of mistranscriptions hiding the marriage -- e.g.:

Marriages Sep 1912
RICE William C Hill St. Geo. H. Sq. 1a 1136

Marriages Sep 1912
Hill Florence J Rice St.Geo.H.Sq. 1a 1138

(That isn't likely them, but it shows the kind of problem -- the page number for one of them has been mistranscribed, so they don't show up on a search for William Rice marrying Florence, e.g.)

Florence's death?

Name: Florence E Rice
Death Registration Month/Year: 1951
Age at death (estimated): 64
Registration district: Southwell
Inferred County: Nottinghamshire
Volume: 3c
Page: 684

= dob about 1887

There's no William Rice death in Southwell reg dist, though.

Michael is right - you absolutely have to start with George's birth cert.

It's possible Florence had been married before and married Rice under a different surname, for instance. It's also possible they just weren't married, one of them having an existing marriage, for instance. Or the names Florence and William could have been their middle names ...

If you do know their death details, as Cassidy said, that would also be very helpful.

There isn't much point in you and the woman with that William trying to sort it out -- you've picked him at random, so there's an excellent chance that he simply isn't yours.

Unless she picked him at random ... . I guess the question would be what documentation she has of hers.

Hi,Do you know what year's William and Florence Died..and where ?

Cass

I would say it's far better to start again tracing back from George Reginald's birth certificate, without the written tree.
If one person has wires crossed and passes it on, they stay crossed.

I have a problem, which I hope someone can help me sort out!

My husband's father, George Reginald Rice (born Llandilo, Wales 1916, married Dorothy May Whitehead in Calverton, Notts 1940) wrote down his family tree before he died in 1989.

George's father was William Rice (middle name possibly John)

The tree states that William was born 1881, siblings Catharine Jane, Henry, Florence, George, Ernest and Samuel.

William's parents were George Rice (1843 - siblings Sarah Anne, John and Mary) and Charlotte Stevenson.

William's grandparents were Henry Rice (1811? - siblings Thomas, Samuel, John, Mary and Catharine) and Anne ?.

George Reginald Rice's parents, William Rice and Florence West, had 10 children named Rice. Samuel (1912), Ernest (1914), George (1916), Catharine (1917) and William (1919) born in Llandilo, Wales and Albert (1921), Roland (1923), Frederick (1926), James (1929) and Joseph (1931) born in Southwell, Notts.

I cannot find a marriage between William and Florence.

I estimate they were both born around 1880-1885, but don't know where, although I have found a William born in Barton in Fabis and a Florence in Basford, but I can't prove it is them.

Florence West had a sister Emmie (unmarried) and possibly another sibling.

I thought I had my tree all correct until a woman contacted me through Genes recently to say that her grandfather was William Rice, 1881, born in Barton in Fabis. Strangely she has exactly the same ancestors for William as I have, except that he was married to a Lillian Wilkinson in 1916! She has a marriage certificate.

We are both now very confused about William and have spent a lot of time trying to sort this out.

Either the family tree I have from George was traced by someone else who got William's ancestors wrong or William was leading a double life!

Can anyone help?