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William Edwin Smith born 1907.
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 09:52 |
William was born in Ashby de la Zouch into an army family, in 1911 he is aged 4 living with his family in Loughborough. His mother died in 1916 and by the late 1930's he and his father Edwin were living in Wigston Magna with his sister Violet and her family, after a row with his father he disappeared and was never heard of since, he may have joined the army. One of his sisters died in 1961 and left her estate to her siblings, William was searched for but never found. |
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Gee | Report | 26 Aug 2013 10:01 |
What was his mothers name? |
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Gee | Report | 26 Aug 2013 10:07 |
Kate, have you checked this death? |
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Gee | Report | 26 Aug 2013 10:12 |
Such a common name......... |
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 10:21 |
His mother was Henrietta Louisa Riggs. The probate date after his sister Isabella's death was 7 march 1961, looks like they got his mothers name wrong, but the right record. |
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 10:34 |
Well if he did get married none of his family got an invitation! |
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KathleenBell | Report | 26 Aug 2013 10:37 |
There are two possible births for William. This one which you seem to think is him as it's in the 3rd Qtr:- |
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Gee | Report | 26 Aug 2013 10:38 |
Kate |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 26 Aug 2013 10:39 |
Name: William Edwin Smith |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 26 Aug 2013 11:00 |
Was he a witness to any of his siblings marriages ? |
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 11:01 |
It seems that William, his father Edwin (army pensioner) and his sister Isabella were all living in Tewkesbury Street Leicester in 1934 when Isabella married (aged 41). Isabella then left to live with her husband in Oadby and the two chaps moved in with my grandmother her husband and their 5 children in Oadby Lane, Wigston Magna. Edwin lived there until his death in 1945. |
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 11:09 |
The only marriage certificate I have is that of Isabella in 1934 and William was not a witness. His other siblings married in 1922 and 1925, and William may have been too young to be a witness to those. |
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 11:29 |
I have ordered William's birth certificate, should be here early September. |
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Mary | Report | 26 Aug 2013 11:32 |
death |
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KathleenBell | Report | 26 Aug 2013 11:39 |
If the birth certificate comes back with a birth date of 7th July then I would definitely order the death certificate that Mary has found as the informant may be a relative. This is the full GRO reference:- |
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 13:13 |
Thank you, my aunts (they knew him, he lived in their house and they are getting on in years now) and I would love to know what happened to William, I'll wait until I have his birth record. |
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 13:25 |
Hi Kathleen, Yes Edwin joined the Territorials after a long career with the Regular army, that's something else I would like to find out more about. |
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Dea | Report | 26 Aug 2013 14:00 |
These are father Edwin 's army records which you might find of interest ? |
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 15:31 |
Yes I have his service records but no records regarding his TA service. I also have no idea why he enlisted as Edward when he was actually Edwin, all his civil records are Edwin, army records Edwin! But I know we have the correct army records as his next of kin, his wife and some of his children are listed, 2 of his children were born in the West Indies, he married in Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
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Kate | Report | 26 Aug 2013 15:49 |
Sorry, army records Edward not Edwin, It's one of those days! |