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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Berkshire => Topic started by: Abiam2 on Wednesday 13 August 08 10:28 BST (UK)
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Hello again,
Some of you may remember my search to find out where my father worked as an aircraft fitter during the war. I found a snippet of information whilst in Maidenhead telling me that at the Widney Works in Oldfield Road they were making aircraft parts for Handley Page Ltd. This included the chassis for the Halifax bombers and radar equipment used to locate U boats out in the Atlantic. They had 300 workers there and I am wondering if my father was one of them.
I know1942 is a long way back now but I am hoping someone may be able to help me find out more,
Regards,
Abiam
Can I explain the next 3 posts. They are nothing to do with above but a helping hand to sort out a problem elsewhere!
Thank you Abiam
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Took me a while to find this! How's this working out?
Hope it was just a blip.
Dave
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PS I'm scared! :o
First time posting outside a Scottish board.
Must have a wee whisky to calm down......
;D
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How very brave of you!!! You must get out more. Anyway this message did not end up in my personal messages. So I think it was a blip! Possibly caused by me clicking the notify box.
I do appreciate you taking the time to help. And I have very pleasant memories of Portsoy in 1958 - coach all the way from Victoria, London. Took forever but worth it,
Abiam
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Hi,
My Grandfather Ernest Warwick (1887-1956) worked at Widney Works, not sure of the dates though but he was a blacksmith by trade. My father (1925 - 1999) and his family lived for a time in Oldfield Road.
Julie
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That's interesting. Still hoping someone will remember something,
Regards,
Abiam
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I can't help you with the works but where was your father born? I am a fellow Warwick (origins from Reading and Tilehurst) but have quite a reasonable database of Berkshire and Hampshire Warricks and Warwicks and might be able to give you some other info.
Warwick122
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Hi,
My Fathers name was Frank, born Maidenhead 1925, one of 11 children, his father Ernest born 1887 also Maidenhead, his father James born 1850 in South Moreton - came to Maidenhead sometime between 1871 and 1881 and worked on the railroad.
Julie
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According to my researches (and please check them!!) James Warwick moved initially to Bray around 1882, and then moved to Maidenhead between 1885 (birth of Beatrice) and Feb 1886 (birth of Ernest), although he moved back to Bray again in 1891 and was back in Maidenhead again in 1892 for the birth of his next child! Like most railway companies, if you wanted to be promoted, you had to move around the country, but most would stay within their own company. I should imagine that the depression in the farming industry and the switch to arable led him to give up his job as a herdsman (or perhaps it was betwwe pay, but a more dangerous job. The National Archives might well have his staff records.
Thanks for the info about your father and grandfather - I have quite a bit about the South Moreton ones, although I don't come from that branch.
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Hi
Sorry but some of your info is wrong, James moved to Maidenhead as I said sometime between the 1871 census and the 1881 census - in 1881 he was living in Grove Road,Maidenhead and in 1882, he married at St Luke's Church Maidenhead to Elizabeth Mace from North Moreton, all children except the first born James (1881 - North Moreton) were born while the family were living in Park Street Maidenhead, they lived at at least 2 different houses there, - no 18 and 37. Alice - 1883, Beatrice, 1884, Ernest 1887, Frank 1890, Nellie 1891, Herbert 1894, and William 1896.
Maidenhead used to be under Cookham Reg District until 1896 when it became a Reg District in its own right.
James was still living in Park street in 1911 census - still as a platelayer for the railway.
I have the tree back to a Nathaniel Warwick born about 1680 - married in 1700 in Wiltshire.
Julie
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According to my researches (and please check them!!) James Warwick moved initially to Bray around 1882, and then moved to Maidenhead between 1885 (birth of Beatrice) and Feb 1886 (birth of Ernest), although he moved back to Bray again in 1891 and was back in Maidenhead again in 1892 for the birth of his next child!
Much of Maidenhead was in Bray parish before the proliferation of new parishes in Victorian times - so these moves could just be a matter of a few hundred yards.
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Thanks for the correction; I was going by the Census births but your information is obviously much more detailed and accurate. However, it does perhaps beg the question as to why they declared the births in Bray or Maidenhead. The comments about the changed boundaries are interesting. Grove Road is very close to Maidenhead station in the town centre so presumably he would have been based there.
My tree for the North and South Moreton Warwicks goes back to the same point as yours, and I suspect that they probably link back to the Warwicks of Bampton and Kelmscott of the c16 and early c17 but there is no proof as yet
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The obvious way to tell for sure would be to get the birth certificates to determine the addresses for each. Maybe there is a simple explanation, such as the mother going to the cottage hospital (opened in 1878) for the Bray births and staying at home for the Maidenhead ones.
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Hi I am also trying to trace the Warwick line in Bucks/Berks.
My ggfather was Edward, son of Henry Warwick and Sarah (anderson).Henry & Sarah married in Bisham in 1831.
Trying to trace Henry's birth. Logic says he is son of Robt & Mary Warwick as all shown in 1841 census in Burnham, but unable to confirm. Robt died before 1851 census, and unable to confirm an entry for Mary to see her birth place.
I am assuming that if Henry was 1st born it may have been in his mother's parish not Burnham as he states in later census records.
Cannot trace Robt & Mary's marriage, but can trace Robert back via a couple of Nathan(iel)s to early 1700's.
Just don't want to assume - Henry could be nephew or completely unrelated!
Does any one have any positive info?
Many thanks