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I'm looking for a Frank Holden Rex. Served on Aquitania during WW1. His service record states he was born 1890 in Dulwich, but I can't find any record of his birth/parents. Can anyone help. Thanks :-S

Welcome to the boards, JFG.

Could he have been born Frank Holden, and later acquired Rex when his parents married?

There is this birth:

Births Sep 1890
Steane Frank Holden Camberwell 1d 833

of interest?

Added:
Probably not, as still Steane in 1911 census with parents.

Added:
Birth 20th August
England & Wales, Death Index,
Frank Halden Steane
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1890
Date of Registration: Mar 1977 Age at Death: 86
Registration district: Norwich Outer inferred County: Norfolk
Volume: 10 Page: 2175

Doesn't his record give the next of kin?

Not seeing it on ancestry

If he married the cert should names his father if known

His record is on national archives, dob 20/8/1890. Could you say how you have connected to him and what else you know about him, it may help in finding his birth or ancestry.

Sorry, should have said it is royal navy record dated 1916, service number J62510 - these detail service but not nok etc.

UK, Naval Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1972


Name:Frank H Rex

Medal or Award:
Victory Medal, British War Medal

Service Year:1914-1920

Service Location:Europe

Campaign or Service:World War I

Service number:J 62510



No other info

I added this further up, then realised that his birth date, by coincidence or not, matched Frank H Rex:

England & Wales, Death Index,
Frank Halden Steane
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1890
Date of Registration: Mar 1977 Age at Death: 86
Registration district: Norwich Outer inferred County: Norfolk
Volume: 10 Page: 2175

i think we need JFG to return to the thread, as Frank Holden Steane marries and is on the ERs in the 1930s. We need to know how he connects back to him.

That is too much of a coincidence Pat surely it's a possibility. How many Frank Holden XX can be born same day?

1891 England Census about Frank Steane
Name: Frank Steane
Age: 7/12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1890
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Wallace Steane
Mother's name: Margaret Steane
Gender: Male
Where born: E Dulwich, London, England
Civil Parish: Camberwell
Ecclesiastical parish: St John
Town: East Dulwich
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address:

Occupation: OF FATHER INSURANCE AGENT

Registration district: Camberwell
Sub-registration district: Camberwell
ED, institution, or vessel: 38
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 472
Folio: 38
Page Number: 10
Household Members:
Name Age
Wallace Steane 27 1864 Camberwell, Surrey
Margaret Steane 24 1867 London
Percy Steane 5 1886 Peckham, London
Frank Steane 7/12


1901 England Census about Frank Holden
Name: Frank Holden
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1891
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Father: Wallace Wm S Steane
Mother: Margaret Steane
Birth Place: Dulwich Sy
Civil Parish: Camberwell
Ecclesiastical parish: St Peter Dulwich Common
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Camberwell
Sub-registration district: Camberwell
ED, institution, or vessel: 52
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 502
Folio: 114
Page Number: 21
Household schedule number: 144
Household Members:
Name Age
Wallace Wm S Steane 37
Margaret Steane 35
Winifred L Steane 16
Percy Wallace 14
Frank Holden 10
Edna Marion 8
Jack Leonard 2
Ivy Mabel Steane 1


1911 England Census about Frank Steane
Name: Frank Steane
Age in 1911: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1891
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Birth Place: CAMBERWELL, England
Civil Parish: Camberwell
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address: 13 Friern Rd, East Dulwich
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: MUSIC HALL ARTIST
Registration district: Camberwell
Registration District Number: 27
Sub-registration district: Dulwich
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Piece: 2451
Household Members:
Name Age
Wallace Steane 47
Margaret Steane 45
Frank Steane 20
Edna Steane 18
Jack Steane 12
Ivy Steane 11
Edith Steane 7

Frank Holden Steane is with Dorothy Ruby Steane (his wife) at 83b Ballard's Lane Finchley 1935-38. And there is this:

Frank Steane
Age:7/12
Estimated Birth Year:abt 1890
Relation:Son
Father's Name:Wallace Steane
Mother's name:Margaret Steane
Gender:Male
Where born:E Dulwich, London, England
Civil Parish:Camberwell
Ecclesiastical parish:St John
Town:East Dulwich
County/Island:London
Country:England
Street addressOccupation:
Condition as to marriage:
Education:
Employment status:
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Registration district:Camberwell
Sub-registration district:Camberwell
ED, institution, or vessel:38
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece:472
Folio:38
Page Number:10
Household Members:NameAge
Wallace Steane 27
Margaret Steane 24
Percy Steane 5
Frank Steane 7/12

England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005 about Ruby D Shave
Name: Ruby D Shave
Spouse Surname: Steane
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1925
Registration district: Erpingham
Inferred County: Norfolk
Volume Number: 4b
Page Number: 115
Find Spouse: Find Spouse Frank H Steane

It seems his mother was a Margaret Elizabeth Bertha Gustarve Von Hafen baptised in Middx on 28 June 1866 parents William and Bertha (Countess of Lilienstien)

William was a Late Leutenant Indian Army.

Guys Thanks for all your input. I'm new to this game so you have confused me with talk of the name Steane. I am only looking for Frank Holden REX. I got his service record from another Genes reunited member and confirmed it by finding a record in the National archives. This record definitely shows his birth as 20aug1890 in Dulwich. The FHR I'm looking for is my wife's grandfather and shows up as being an actor from Dulwich on her father's birth certificate, albeit he [my wife's father] was born in Somerset. I've tried looking for a Frank Holden [as suggested by patchem] born in Dulwich but nothing shows. Is it possible that his birth was not registered?

It has to be the correct one.
On his service record on FMP it says his profession was Theatrical Manager.

What was your wife's grandmother called?

All the info points to him being the one we have found.

He may have used the name 'Rex' as a stage name?

England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915 about Wallace William S Steane
Name: Wallace William S Steane
Registration Year: 1885
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration district: Camberwell
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1d
Page: 1265
Records on Page:
Name
Pamela Elizabeth Holden
George Nye
Wallace William S Steane
Margaret Winifred Von Hafen

Sorry Guys. BINGO Looks like you could be have been right all along. There's always been talk of a 'German Princess' in the family and looking at Mel Fairy Godmothers message it seem it could be right! And it is quite conceivable that Frank Holden Steane changed his name to Rex when he went on the stage. After all REX does mean KING.

Thanks again, you've all put me on a new family trace.
JFG

ngland & Wales, Birth Index, 1916-2005 about Joy G Steane
Name: Joy G Steane
Mother's Maiden Surname: Shave
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1928
Registration district: Norwich
Inferred County: Norfolk
Volume Number: 4b
Page Number: 166