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Title: look up request
Post by: brooklynodog on Saturday 04 September 10 20:38 BST (UK)
Sorry to ask for more help, but i am stuck with tracing my maternal great grand father Ernest Henry Langridge, born 1890 in Maresfield, Sussex, married to Rose Emily Cornwell (born 1890) in about 1908. He seems to have disappeared after my Grandma Violet Rose was born in 1908. Family stories have it he died in the 1st war but I can find no records. Alternative stories have it he ran away to Australia, but can find no record there either. All we know is that Rose Emily married again in 1948 to George Henry Gaston (born 1890) and the suggestion is that she had to prove/claim Ernest was dead. Any help or advice very gratefullyrecieved. Please note it is only Ernest Henry Langridge I need help with, all the others are known to me in my living memory. Thanks
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: snowyw on Saturday 04 September 10 20:48 BST (UK)
Border Crossing from US to Canada
Ernest Langridge
Age: 37
Estimated birth year: abt 1889
Arrival Port: Windsor, Ontario
Date of Arrival: 26 Jul 1926 
Birth Location: London, England
Gender: Male
Citizenship: English

Any good
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: snowyw on Saturday 04 September 10 20:49 BST (UK)
Border crossing from Canada to US
Ernest Langridge
Arrival Date: Jun 1923
Age: 33
Birth Date: abt 1890
Birth Country: England
Gender: Male
Race/Nationality: English
   
Port of Arrival: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation Cook
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: nanny jan on Saturday 04 September 10 20:52 BST (UK)
Hi,

Do you have a copy of the 1948 marriage certificate?  Is Rose described as a widow?


Nanny Jan
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: brooklynodog on Saturday 04 September 10 20:53 BST (UK)
Many thanks, but no, Ernest was definately born in Maresfield, Sussex, 1890. I have the family tree before him going back to 1700`s. Its just that he disappears, and my Mum (his Grand daughter would love to know what happened to him as she obviously never met him.
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: brooklynodog on Saturday 04 September 10 20:54 BST (UK)
Hi,

Do you have a copy of the 1948 marriage certificate?  Is Rose described as a widow?


Nanny Jan

Yes, definatley had to wait for confirmation of previous husbands death, but i cant find a record of it
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: snowyw on Saturday 04 September 10 20:56 BST (UK)
Ernest Langridge
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Estimated birth year: abt 1889
Date of Arrival: 6 Jun 1911
Vessel: Lake Champlain
Port of Arrival: Quebec
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Roll: T-4777
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: nanny jan on Saturday 04 September 10 21:00 BST (UK)
Hi

Have you found the family on 1911 census?



Some good finds  snowyw!  :)



Nanny Jan


 
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: brooklynodog on Saturday 04 September 10 21:02 BST (UK)
Yes, he appears to have left his wife and gone back to his parents also in Sussex local to Lewes/ Maresfield, but that doesnt really help as we know he vanished about the start of the war
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: IanS on Sunday 05 September 10 09:11 BST (UK)
I have been doing a Vicary one-name study for some time now and would be interested to learn of your Vicary connections
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: brooklynodog on Sunday 05 September 10 09:32 BST (UK)
Sorry, but i am unaware of any Vicary connections?
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: suffolk*sue on Sunday 05 September 10 09:56 BST (UK)
In the last census Ernest, Rose and baby Violet are all together in Sussex. Ernest is a cowman on a farm, and his birth year is put at 1885.


Immigration

Name: Mr E H LANGRIDGE 
Date of departure: 11 January 1924   
Port of departure: London   
Passenger destination port: Sydney, Australia   
Passenger destination: Sydney, Australia   
 
Date of Birth: 1886 (calculated from age) 
Age: 38 
Marital status: 
Sex: Male 
Occupation: Cowman 

Last address

Malthouse Cottages
Cooksbrige
Sussex.
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: brooklynodog on Sunday 05 September 10 10:06 BST (UK)
I couldnt find that entry. I could only find Rose Emily alone with Violet and a E H Langridge with parents. Could you point me in the right direction to it please?
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: suffolk*sue on Sunday 05 September 10 10:10 BST (UK)
I couldnt find that entry. I could only find Rose Emily alone with Violet and a E H Langridge with parents. Could you point me in the right direction to it please?

The address they are at are South Street, Chailey, Sussex.

If you search for Violet Rose Langridge born 1910 this will find them.
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: brooklynodog on Sunday 05 September 10 10:14 BST (UK)
But my Gran Violet rose was born in 1909?
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: suffolk*sue on Sunday 05 September 10 10:15 BST (UK)
This could be him

Australian Electoral Rolls, 1903-1954

Name: Ernest Henry Langridge
Gender: Male
Electoral Year: 1930
State: New South Wales
District: Richmond
Subdistrict: Murwillumbah
occupation - labourer.



This man was alive up to at least 1954. :'(
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: suffolk*sue on Sunday 05 September 10 10:17 BST (UK)
But my Gran Violet rose was born in 1909?

Birth years in census are approximate, she was probably written down as a one year old but could have been between one and two on census night.
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: brooklynodog on Sunday 05 September 10 10:21 BST (UK)
Of course, forgive my naeivity (doesnt look like i spelt that right!)
Bit frustrated though as I subscribed to My Ancestry, but they havent got the 1911 census, so I have to keep paying for entries which is making it all a bit expensive!!
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: suffolk*sue on Sunday 05 September 10 10:27 BST (UK)
I think the chap who went to Oz looks a good bet, seeing as his last address in the UK was Sussex and had the same occupation.
I know you said his wife remarried in 1948, and this chap was still alive up to at least 1954, maybe she had him declared dead so she could remarry, which I believe you can do when someone is gone or missing after seven years.
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: brooklynodog on Sunday 05 September 10 10:31 BST (UK)
Thats exactly what my Mum think happened! Who is this Os chap to which you refer?
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: suffolk*sue on Sunday 05 September 10 10:38 BST (UK)
Thats exactly what my Mum think happened! Who is this Os chap to which you refer?

This one

Immigration

Name: Mr E H LANGRIDGE 
Date of departure: 11 January 1924   
Port of departure: London   
Passenger destination port: Sydney, Australia   
Passenger destination: Sydney, Australia   

Date of Birth: 1886 (calculated from age) 
Age: 38 
Marital status: 
Sex: Male 
Occupation: Cowman 

Last address

Malthouse Cottages
Cooksbrige
Sussex.



Read back over the previous posts and you will see what I found.
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: snowyw on Sunday 05 September 10 10:38 BST (UK)
That looks good suffolk sue

I think this is definitely him in 1901

Henry Langridge 48 Cowman Fletching Sussex
Eliza Langridge 54 Uckfield
Frank W Langridge 19 Hide Tanner Lewes
Clara K Langridge 19 Lewes
Ernest H Langridge 15 Cowman Polegate
Class: RG13; Piece: 916; Folio: 7; Page: 5.
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: suffolk*sue on Sunday 05 September 10 10:41 BST (UK)
That looks good suffolk sue

I think this is definitely him in 1901

Henry Langridge 48 Cowman Fletching Sussex
Eliza Langridge 54 Uckfield
Frank W Langridge 19 Hide Tanner Lewes
Clara K Langridge 19 Lewes
Ernest H Langridge 15 Cowman Polegate
Class: RG13; Piece: 916; Folio: 7; Page: 5.


Yes, Polegate is the birthplace for Ernest in the NEXT census.
Title: Re: look up request
Post by: snowyw on Sunday 05 September 10 10:51 BST (UK)
Marriages Mar 1909   
CORNWELL  Rose Emily    Lewes  2b 245   
LANGRIDGE  Ernest Henry     Lewes  2b 245