I do remember meeting my ggfather I would have thought I was older than three. But maybe? Any mention of leather trade?There's a mention of John Williams' (I think) death in the Bham Mail 1944. Unfortunately it seems to just mention Mrs Williams and family rather than individual names.
I guess it's worth a marriage certificate to verify your findings! Garforth, Tadcaster that's Leeds way isn't it?If so there is a marriage for a Florence M Williams to a Horace Vickers Sep qtr 1929 Bham S.
On the 1939 register there is a Margaret F Vickers with a dob 3 Oct 1896 living on Main St Garforth with a Horace Vickers. It is a year out but it is one of the more common errors.
I saw that marriage and wondered. Horace was a grocery shop owner as well.
A few coincidences if it isn't her.
I do remember meeting my ggfather I would have thought I was older than three. But maybe? Any mention of leather trade?
I guess it's worth a marriage certificate to verify your findings! Garforth, Tadcaster that's Leeds way isn't it?
As the marriage is in Birmingham it is a good possibility.
No coincidence!I have a possible candidate.
I think it's been said that ERs can be a year out, so you may be listed for the year after you've left, which could mean that whatever happened to Florence may have happened in 1929.
If so there is a marriage for a Florence M Williams to a Horace Vickers Sep qtr 1929 Bham S.
On the 1939 register there is a Margaret F Vickers with a dob 3 Oct 1896 living on Main St Garforth with a Horace Vickers. It is a year out but it is one of the more common errors.
There is a death registered for Florence Margaret Vickers Mar qtr 1940 Tadcaster (which includes Garforth) aged listed as 44.
A few coincidences if it isn't her.
As the marriage is in Birmingham it is a good possibility.
Hi, you both helped me enormously with my searches earlier this year could I please ask for a bit more guidance. As dark nights are coming I thought I would try to find WW1 military records of some of my many great uncles, there are a great many of them and I don't even know if they have any such records. I would appreciate a pointer as to which sites are available, inexpensive and easy to use. Thanks in anticipation, Jim.Doesn't appear to be, just a thank you for sympathy and flowers.
Just came across this quote from some twelve months ago. I have since "convinced" myself that this probably not my ggfather. There is another death of a John Williams in Birmingham in 1950 age 88 which almost fits his dob of 1864. (Married 1886 age 22). Is this reasonable slippage? By this time I would have been nine and far more likely to have a memory of him.There's a mention of John Williams' (I think) death in the Bham Mail 1944. Unfortunately it seems to just mention Mrs Williams and family rather than individual names.
Just came across this quote from some twelve months ago. I have since "convinced" myself that this probably not my ggfather. There is another death of a John Williams in Birmingham in 1950 age 88 which almost fits his dob of 1864. (Married 1886 age 22). Is this reasonable slippage? By this time I would have been nine and far more likely to have a memory of him.
I would have been just four! I have never doubted that I had personal memories of him! Alfred Williams was a Birmingham bus driver at Highgate garage.