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William Haddon Arthur



Birth Year:abt 1842



Parish:Atherstone



Burial Date:19 Mar 1883



Burial Age:41

Is that not his death in 1883 in Prestwich


Name:William Haddon Arthur

Estimated Birth Year:abt 1842

Date of Registration:Jan-Feb-Mar 1883

Age at Death:41

Registration District:Prestwich

Inferred County:Lancashire

Volume:8d

Page:262

Looks interesting:

1851 census transcription details for: Grange Lodge, North Mimms
RG number: HO107
Piece: 1712
Folio: 81
Page: 28
Reg. District: Hatfield
Sub District: Hatfied Union
Parish: North Mimms
Enum. District: 3B
Ecclesiastical District:
City/Municipal Borough:
Address: Grange Lodge, North Mimms
County: Hertfordshire
HADDON, William Head Married M 38 1813 Builder
Atherstone, Warwickshire
HADDON, Isabella Wife Married F 38 1813 Builders Wife
Scotland
ARTHUR, William Nephew Unmarried M 9 1842 Scholar
Scotland



Maureen

Could the father be Alexander?

Name: William Arthur
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 13 Feb 1842
Christening Place: , PORT GLASGOW, RENFREW, SCOTLAND
Birth Date: 31 Jan 1842
Father's Name: Alexander Arthur
Father's Birthplace:
Father's Age:
Mother's Name: Margaret Myles

I am struggling to find info about my great-great grandfather Williams Haddon Arthur. Very frustrating as he proving is a brick wall to the next generation. Census returns of 1871 and 1881 having him living in Atherstone, Warwickshire but both suggest he was born in Scotland c.1842 (I don't know where in Scotland). Not having access to Scottish records is a hindrance - I accept I may eventually have to pay up to get them.

On 2nd June,1875 he married my great-great grandmother Henrietta nee Stebbing in Mancetter, Atherstone. I can't read his father's name on the marriage certificate - I think it's Henander (?) Arthur, who is listed as a joiner.

At this time, William is listed as a widower. Detective work suggests that he was probably previously married to Janet Elizabeth Turley in Kings Norton in 1871, and she died a year later, though I have not seen relevant certificates.

I have seen William variously described as a builder or stonemason but have also recently found a cutting from the London Gazette which suggests he was declared bankrupt in 1879 (google his full name in quotation marks and you will find it). I assume this would have been quite a shame on the family? Would it have meant a prison sentence?

The mystery deepens with his daughter's birth eight years later in 1887 where he is listed as "deceased" on her birth certificate. Sh was born in Birmingham on 20th October 1887 which would seem to narrow the date of his death down comfortably to 1887 - but can I find it? No! To the best of my knowledge, she was their only child.

Wonder if he might have returned to Scotland to die, not really died but just scarpered - or maybe not even have been present at daughter Mabel's conception! ;-)

I just have a feeling that if there is going to be a black sheep in the family, this may be him! Any pointers, suggestions or thoughts are warmly welcomed.