Please can you help me.

I'm trying to find out more about Ernest Sturgess born 1888 in Killamarsh, Derbyshire. His father was George Sturgess (born 1843, died 1890) and his mother was Elizabeth Sturgess (nee Wilcox).

He married Minnie Rebecca Tasker (my great Grandma) on May 26, 1913, and had children called George (1913), Katherine (Mabel) (1915), Nellie (1917) and Iris (1918). However in 1919, Minnie Rebecca Tasker had a child fathered by Matthew Burnham (Hilda), and then another with Matthew Burnham in 1921 (my Grandma) called Lily. They married in 1922.

I am trying to find out what happened to Ernest, if he was a casualty in the first world war (I can find an Ernest Sturgess who died in 1916 on HMS Black Price, but if this is him, it doesn't explain the birth of Nellie and Iris who have his name on their birth certificate). From this I can only gather that he possibly died between 1918 and 1919. I can't see any divorce records anything else.

I'd be grateful if anyone has researched this family or has any information.

Kindest regards

Paul Pounder