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eric frederick spires

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Therese

Therese Report 14 Jul 2014 01:48

Looking for any info

Thanks

Therese

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 14 Jul 2014 01:50

Do you know where/when he was born? Can you tell us what you do know?

Rose

FAIRTHORN

FAIRTHORN Report 14 Jul 2014 02:21

FOUND ADDRESS/TELEPHONE ETC


easy to find so can I ask why the search

either email via message if private OR post here the reason


CHEERS

ZOE

Kenneth

Kenneth Report 14 Jul 2014 10:18

Eric in 2009 ER at that address, but wife from second marriage at address
2009-2014 ER.

Therese

Therese Report 14 Jul 2014 20:52

Eric Fredrick Spires
Known as fred
1 or 2 July 1937
Mothers maiden name Higgins (worked a coal truck)
Army cook
Drove trucks foklift
Blue eyes
Light brown hair

I live in scotland and have done since we left ledbury rd croydon in 1970

Therese Mayer nee Douglas

Therese

Therese Report 14 Jul 2014 22:05

Sorry I should have said he was born in Surrey
And was married twice
He had children with his first wife I do not know if any with second.
I would like to trace any of his children.
I was born in 1968 out of wedlock (while Fred was married to his first wife) my mother's name is Therese Douglas
I have two children of my own and have no medical history re him/family

Thank you for any help given it will be treasured

Therese Mayer nee Douglas

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patchem

patchem Report 14 Jul 2014 23:19

Therese,

Have you looked to see if his children are in anyone's tree on genes?

Did you try sending a pm to Zoe?

Try bt online for phone number for him, using Spires living in Norfolk:

http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search.publisha

Therese

Therese Report 14 Jul 2014 23:31

Hi patchem

I don't have names for any of his children from either marriage but thanks for the advice.

Therese

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 15 Jul 2014 00:09

Have you looked on FreeBMD for his first marriage?

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Where did he live after he married?

Rose

Therese

Therese Report 15 Jul 2014 00:27

Hi rose
Thanks for responding, I have checked on genes under bmd and have downloaded info on birth record for him and marriage record for first and second wives, but I don't know where to go from there I even have address and no for his second wife. But am terrified to go further, I can't find anything in deaths for him.

How do I find information on any children

Thanks for listening. Therese

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 15 Jul 2014 00:34

If you look at 192.com he was in Norfolk in 2009.

Rose

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Does he know about you?

Rose

Therese

Therese Report 15 Jul 2014 01:12

Hi rose, yes he new me for two and a half years, his first wife , who he was at the time came to see me when I was born.

Therese

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Click ADD REPLY button - not this link! Report 15 Jul 2014 03:20

If you look on FreeBMD for Spires births with Spouse/Mother surname of his first wife you can see if any of the births fit.

There's nothing in Surrey.

Rose

FAIRTHORN

FAIRTHORN Report 15 Jul 2014 03:56

Best thing to do, is buy the 1937 marriage certificate
this will give his first wife's name/s & father's name
If they did not stay in Surrey, it is hard to find the births

£9.25

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

Plus it will give his father's name as I can not pinpoint even his parents' marriage

Births Sep 1937
Spires Eric F Higgins Surrey Mid.E. 2a 277
Births Jun 1941
Spires John H Higgins Surrey Mid.E. 2a 290
Births Dec 1945
Spires James M Higgins Surrey Mid.E. 2a 360

SADLY
SPIRES JOHN H 1941 1941 1941 England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Surrey Mid Eastern, Surrey, England
SPIRES JAMES M 1946 1947 1947 England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Surrey Mid Eastern, Surrey, England

patchem

patchem Report 15 Jul 2014 07:09

Fairthorn,

I thought the Spires/Higgins births started in 1927 in Camberwell, and then continued in Surrey Mid E.

The parents' marriage could be
Marriages Dec 1926
Higgins Ethel R G Spires Malling 2a 1731
Spires Robert W J Higgins Malling 2a 1731

Ethel's birth
Births Dec 1907
Higgins Ethel Rose G Malling 2a 770
(to explain the marriage in Malling)

and her death, to fit with births of children
England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Ethel Rose G Spires
Birth Date: 8 Oct 1907
Date of Registration: Mar 1986
Age at Death: 78
Registration district: Sutton
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 15
Page: 252