A bit more detail from when Frederick was originally charged in 1942. This is taken from an article in the Wokingham Times 20th November 1942 -
Defendant’s wife, whom he married in 1917, was present in Court, but declined to give evidence. Her sister, Mrs S. Broughall, of St Albans, Herts., stated that she was present on September 2nd 1917 when the marriage took place at St Clement’s Church, Fulham Palace Road, Fulham, of defendant Frederick Man (sic) and Elsie Ellen Smith. Witness, who was then unmarried, said she signed the register in her maiden name of Martha May Smith. Mrs Elsie Doris Abbott of 62a, Strafford Road, Barnet, said the prisoner was her father. She remembered him leaving home in 1929 and she did not see him again until April or May 1938, when he knocked on the door of her house. She asked him in, and he saw her mother and asked if she would take him back again, but she refused. Alice Yarham of 3, Lea Cottages, Twyford said she went through a form of marriage with defendant at Field Dalling Parish Church, Norfolk. During quarrels since they had been living together, he told her that she was not his wife. Last August, he handed her a piece of paper, saying that if she wrote to the address on it, she would find out all she wished to know. P.c. Ronald Hedges stated that at 5.25 pm on November 2nd, he arrested Masters on a warrant at Twyford and conveyed him to Wokingham, where he charged and cautioned. He then said, “My correct name is Frederick May - I have nothing else to say.”
