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Frank Holden Rex
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JFG | Report | 31 Aug 2014 14:24 |
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 |
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patchem | Report | 31 Aug 2014 14:40 |
Welcome to the boards, JFG. |
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patchem | Report | 31 Aug 2014 14:45 |
There is this birth: |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 31 Aug 2014 14:45 |
Doesn't his record give the next of kin? |
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Flip | Report | 31 Aug 2014 14:46 |
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. |
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Gee | Report | 31 Aug 2014 15:05 |
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patchem | Report | 31 Aug 2014 15:09 |
I added this further up, then realised that his birth date, by coincidence or not, matched Frank H Rex: |
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Flip | Report | 31 Aug 2014 15:18 |
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. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 31 Aug 2014 15:24 |
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Flip | Report | 31 Aug 2014 15:26 |
Frank Holden Steane is with Dorothy Ruby Steane (his wife) at 83b Ballard's Lane Finchley 1935-38. And there is this: |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 31 Aug 2014 15:32 |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 31 Aug 2014 15:49 |
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) |
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JFG | Report | 31 Aug 2014 16:12 |
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? |
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Astra | Report | 31 Aug 2014 16:13 |
It has to be the correct one. |
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Flip | Report | 31 Aug 2014 16:16 |
What was your wife's grandmother called? |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 31 Aug 2014 16:20 |
Yes and on the 1911 census I put up he is a Music Hall Artist. |
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Gee | Report | 31 Aug 2014 16:26 |
He may have used the name 'Rex' as a stage name? |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 31 Aug 2014 16:33 |
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JFG | Report | 31 Aug 2014 16:48 |
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. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 31 Aug 2014 16:51 |
ngland & Wales, Birth Index, 1916-2005 about Joy G Steane |