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Title: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Wednesday 01 October 08 20:21 BST (UK)
Hi all,

I am trying to find possible surviving relatives of Flying Officer Peter Huxly Looker, an RAF pilot who together with his two crewmates lost his life when their Blenheim bomber crashed near Aartselaar in Belgium on 26.06.1942.  For more details please see my thread "Flying Officer Peter Huxly Looker" on the Surrey page.

Peter's mother Elsie, née Henson, was born in Kettering and the 1901 census provides following info (thanks to Dave Francis):

1901 Census of Kettering, Northants
RG 13/1448 folio 179 page 16

29 Eskdail Street
Henry F Henson, head, 55, builder
Anne, wife. 57
Arthur, son, 24, bricklayer
Edith, daur, 21
Ella, daur, 14
Elsie, daur, 11
Ernest Rendal, nephew, 14

All recorded as born in Kettering.

Elsie married Charles Looker on March 8th 1913 and her residence at the time of marriage was 27 William Street, Kettering.

Peter was an only child so my hope is that he had some cousins (he had one aunt on his father's side and apparently 3 aunts and an uncle on his mother's side so some of them are bound to have had children).

I would welcome any information on Elsie's two sisters and brother!

Many thanks in advance and best regards from Aartselaar, Belgium.

Walter

Moderator comment: further background information in this thread (to avoid duplication of effort)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,319587.msg2003359.html#msg2003359
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: joyce341 on Thursday 02 October 08 15:40 BST (UK)
Hi Peter,
            to find liveing relatives,I would try "GenesReunited",free to register and put details on,but pay to e-mail if you find a connection,I pay £9-95 a year have been a member from start but apparently this price for six months for new members about i would say 80% of people have a connection on there,never failed me yet,even doing research for others.
Joyce
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: seahall on Friday 03 October 08 07:35 BST (UK)
Hi Walter

Welcome to Rootschat.

It maybe an idea to link this to Armed Forces WW2.

Will do.

Or you could try http://www.ww2chat.com/
where someone might be able to assist.

Sandy

Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Friday 03 October 08 19:55 BST (UK)
Thank you for those tips Joyce & Sandy!

Cheers,
Walter
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Monday 03 November 08 20:06 GMT (UK)
Hi all,

I've been able to narrow down my research a bit and am assuming that the sister that Elsie Looker spent a lot of time with after her husband's death must have been Ella  (Ella Henson, Sep 1886, Kettering, 3b, 182).

Ella married Frederick William Loake in 1909 and together they had a son David H, born in 1911.   This David then was of course a cousin to Peter Looker.   I do not find trace of David marrying but did find a death registration "David Henson Loake, born 30.08.1911, died Oct 1985 aged 74, Kingstons, Surrey".   This has to be the one as his second name Henson was of course his mother's maiden name.

We in meantime know that Elsie Looker died in 1967 but I would like to find out if Ella survived Elsie because if she did then documents of relevance to Peter Looker may have passed onto Ella and from thereon to her son David H (all wishfull thinking of course!).

I am unable to find a death registration for Ella Loake (née Henson) however so if anyone out there could help that would be great.   Ella's husband died in 1926, aged only forty, but there is no trace of an Ella Loake marrying past that date either.

Finally, David H Loake's grandfather was co-founder of the Loake Shoe Company of Kettering which is still a family run business it would seem so I contacted them as well in meantime.

Thanks in advance & best regards,

Walter
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: joyce341 on Monday 03 November 08 23:03 GMT (UK)
 Hi Walter,
               I would apply for the death certificate for David Loake and see who registered it.if you want full registration details,e-mail privately and i will give to you.
I did this after traceing a cousin in 1901 census,found death in 1980,s sent for certificate and found it was registered by his daughter,gave a name and address,found in 192.com and phoned,hence i recieved a lot of photo,s and info and in contact with another cousin.
Joyce
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Wednesday 28 October 09 20:10 GMT (UK)
Hello All,

I did follow Joyce's advice and David Loake's death certificate did lead me to his still living daughter.    Sadly the lady in question did not show any interest in my little research project and all I found out was that Peter Looker's logbook did not end up with her family.    This all happened in December 08 and I then decided to put the looking for Peter's relatives at a rest for a while.

Back at it again now though!   Peter's mum Elsie Henson came from a big family and I already have three more cousins to look into :

Henry F. Bell              DEC 1913      Market Harborough  Vol 7a  Page 20
Eva Bell                     JUN 1924       Nottingham              Vol 7b  Page 810
Henry F. Henson        SEP 1915      Kettering                  Vol 3b  Page 271

I cannot find any death record on FreeBMD so if any of you might have some info on these three cousins to get me started off that would be just great.

Many thanks in advance for any assistance given.

Best regards,

Walter
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: joyce341 on Thursday 29 October 09 01:41 GMT (UK)
Hi Walter,
               There is a Henry frederick Henson,who died in Kettering in 1988 but his birth year is 1932.
          Joyce
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Thursday 29 October 09 19:51 GMT (UK)
Thank you Joyce!

He might very well be related too as Elsie Henson's father was a Henry F. and so were those two cousins in my to do list!   

Cheers,

Walter




Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: joyce341 on Thursday 29 October 09 22:18 GMT (UK)
Hi Walter,
                you are obviousely familiar with Free BMD but did you know,that if you go into search,instead of view,you can view transcriptions I dont know what date up to,I would think at least 2000,it is a slow process but great if you know more of what your looking for,go into view then follow details through,i.e birth etc,year,quarter then this is the hard bit but remember it is all alphabetical,so you pick a page at random first,i.e.32116 which could be griffiths,so then you know your in the g,s, then gradually eliminate untill you find what you want,i view in pdf files.
joyce
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Friday 30 October 09 16:16 GMT (UK)
Thank you again Joyce!

I didn't know that so I will surely be giving it a try!

All the best,

Walter
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Marton on Wednesday 18 November 09 14:57 GMT (UK)
Hello Walter,do you have a sub. to Ancetry.com? well worth it, for in the public member trees is that of the Henson family of Kettering and these are available to browse.Henry F. had the following children,
Emma1865
Elizabeth 1866
Edith 1879
Ella 1886
Arthur 1876
Elsie 1890
Harry Bull Henson 1873
You can go back to the mid 1700's
Cetainly enough to keep you busy!

best wishes   Marton
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Wednesday 18 November 09 20:24 GMT (UK)
Hi Marton,

Thanks for your today's post.  The Henry F (for Frederick) Henson you are referring to is actually the grandfather of the Henry F that I'm looking for.   "My" Henry F. was the son of Arthur Henson.     Henry F. appears to have been a popular name as Arthur's sister Edith also had a son called Henry F (Bell).

I found a daughter to "my" Henry F. and am now hoping to trace her address via electoral lists.

I currently have a sub. to Ancestry but have been unable to find more info on the cousins to F/O Peter Looker.

All the best,

Walter
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Marton on Thursday 19 November 09 08:53 GMT (UK)
Hi Walter, didn't have a marriage or son for Arthur,Henry(Harry)Bull Henson is the line I am taking for his grandson,who lives Quite near, but my real interest is in Drusillas des. as my late husbands aunt,Eva Place married Walter Henson in Earl Shilton.I gather that Drusilla was not married and kept her maiden name for her children?
best wishes   Marton
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Thursday 19 November 09 19:44 GMT (UK)
Hi again Marton,

Can't help you there I'm afraid.  My interest in the Henson family is finding possibly surviving cousins to Flying Officer Peter looker.   I know I should have started looking twenty years ago but hey, some people do survive to be 90 years and older!

Peter's mother Elsie Henson was the youngest of her siblings, before her came Ella (married Frederick Loake and had a son David, that link already covered), before Ella we have Edith, who married John H Bell and they had a son Henry F and a daughter Eva (two more candidates there) and before Edith there was Arthur.  He married Maud Beal and they had a son Henry F.    That's as far back as I'll go for now, Henry F (son to Arthur) was born in 1915 so there's not much sense in looking further back than that.

Peter's cousin Henry F had a daughter Helen whose address I in meantime found via the electoral lists on Findmypast - off to write a letter now!

Best of luck with your research!

Cheers,

Walter
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Tuesday 04 October 11 20:34 BST (UK)
Hello all,

Been quite a while since my last post here but I haven't been idle in meantime!   I found quite a few surviving relatives to Peter Looker but sadly non of them could tell me anything new about him or lead me to that log book which just might have survived somewhere!

I found the daughters of Peter's cousin Henry F. (the son of Arthur Henson and Maud Beal) but learned that Arthur married without the family's approval which sort of lead to severed ties.   My contact with Arthur's granddaughter Emma however led to a nice article in the Bradford Telegraph and Argus!

And now I'm looking at Edith Henson, she married John Bell and they had a son Henry F, born on 17.10.1913, birth registered in Market Harborough.     From the birth certificate I learned that the family lived on Oxendon Road in Welford Norths.

I followed two marriages featuring a Henry Bell but they were both wrong and it took me about 7 months or so to find that out.

So, being on the Norths page I wondered if any of you would know about the Bells of Welford and could point me in the right direction to finding descendants of Peter Looker's cousin Henry F Bell (who just might be still alive as I was unable to find a death registration).

TIA

Walter
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: mogodonman on Thursday 06 February 14 21:50 GMT (UK)
Peter Huxley Looker was educated at Cranleigh School in Surrey from 1934 to 1938. His father is listed as Charles C Looker of 67 Portsmouth Road, Surbiton. If you have any details of his death that would be appreciated.

Martin Williamson
Cranleigh School Archivist
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: seahall on Saturday 08 February 14 13:52 GMT (UK)
Hi mogodonman.

Welcome to Rootschat.  :)

The CWGC I am sure you will have seen.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0xyu/

Sandy
Title: Re: Henson family of Kettering
Post by: Walter 63 on Saturday 08 February 14 14:12 GMT (UK)
Hello Mogodonman,

Thank you for your most interesting post.  Private message sent.

Cheers,

Walter