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The birth certificate for William Ward shows him to be the son of Thomas Ward & Alice Ward (nee Smith) born 4th December 1894 ~ the family lived at 14 Liverpool Street, Deritend in the Aston parish of Birmingham.
I have found his baptism record ~ William was baptised at St Basil's Church on 15th April 1896 but this entry shows his birth date incorrectly as 23rd November 1894.
He was a brass bedstead worker (as were many other of the Ward family) until he enlisted with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers & served in WWI at the Somme where he was gassed rendering him unfit for further service & was discharged from the army on 2/8/1917. The home address quoted on his war records at the time of his discharge was 64 Herbert Road, Small Heath, Birmingham which was the home of his father Thomas Ward.
Amongst his army records is a postal slip dated 1921 which shows that his medals were posted to him from an army depot in Nottingham ~ they were sent to 64 Herbert Road, Small Heath, Birmingham & the signature is in the name William Ward. This made me wonder in which years he appeared at that address in the electoral registers ~ I thought that his disappearance from there might provide me with a time period to check for both a possible death or marriage entry or might have shown him living there with a wife in order to learn her name. Sadly, this approach proved fruitless as William Ward didn't appear in the registers at his father's house.
I am all out of ideas now as to how to track down what became of William ~ with it being a common name there are so many entries of that name in the marriage & death registers so I have no idea which to look into.
Can anyone offer me any suggestions of something that I have not thought of which might help me to find my William please? Any help at all would be most grateful.
Thank you,
Brock.
The birth certificate for William Ward shows him to be the son of Thomas Ward & Alice Ward (nee Smith) born 4th December 1894 ~ the family lived at 14 Liverpool Street, Deritend in the Aston parish of Birmingham.
I have found his baptism record ~ William was baptised at St Basil's Church on 15th April 1896 but this entry shows his birth date incorrectly as 23rd November 1894.
He was a brass bedstead worker (as were many other of the Ward family) until he enlisted with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers & served in WWI at the Somme where he was gassed rendering him unfit for further service & was discharged from the army on 2/8/1917. The home address quoted on his war records at the time of his discharge was 64 Herbert Road, Small Heath, Birmingham which was the home of his father Thomas Ward.
Amongst his army records is a postal slip dated 1921 which shows that his medals were posted to him from an army depot in Nottingham ~ they were sent to 64 Herbert Road, Small Heath, Birmingham & the signature is in the name William Ward. This made me wonder in which years he appeared at that address in the electoral registers ~ I thought that his disappearance from there might provide me with a time period to check for both a possible death or marriage entry or might have shown him living there with a wife in order to learn her name. Sadly, this approach proved fruitless as William Ward didn't appear in the registers at his father's house.
I am all out of ideas now as to how to track down what became of William ~ with it being a common name there are so many entries of that name in the marriage & death registers so I have no idea which to look into.
Can anyone offer me any suggestions of something that I have not thought of which might help me to find my William please? Any help at all would be most grateful.
Thank you,
Brock.
