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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => London and Middlesex => England => London & Middlesex Lookup Requests => Topic started by: Fransmoi on Tuesday 04 December 12 12:35 GMT (UK)
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Born 29 Nov 1872 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire to Alexander Laing Baxter and Mary McMunn . When and where did he die ? Whom did he marry ?
He was involved in the sale of taxi meters and had made his nephew his heir - until late in life he married ! However sometime after the war there arrived from the station in Elderslie a large wooden packing case containing a very large painting from Uncle Alex's estate .
It seemed too big for the Forrest bungalow so a friend John Tainsh took it to store and it was forgotten about. More important is our not knowing when Uncle Alec died and who was his new wife.
On his father's death certificate of 1917 he as the informant gave his address as 56 Queens Avenue, Muswellhill. Did he die there 30 or more years later ?
Try as I might I cannot find them and I take all my brick walls to Rootschat....
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There's this possibility?
September qtr 1915
Lambeth district vol 1d, page 1116
Baxter, Alexander L
Parmenter, Adelaide M
He was certainly still single in 1911!
N.B. There are other possible marriages, but no middle initial?
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There's this possibility?
September qtr 1915
Lambeth district vol 1d, page 1116
Baxter, Alexander L
Parmenter, Adelaide M
He was certainly still single in 1911!
N.B. There are other possible marriages, but no middle initial?
Hi KG think that one is the Alexander L Baxter b c 1874 Lambeth with wife Emma L b c 1872 in 1901 census ref RG13/412/149/51, the one in Edmonton covers Muswell Hill though?
Keyboard86
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This death is a good match geographically:
Death, Mar qtr 1937
Alexander Baxter aged 64
Edmonton 3a 934
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This death is a good match geographically:
Death, Mar qtr 1937
Alexander Baxter aged 64
Edmonton 3a 934
...leading to this probate entry:
Alexander Baxter of 3 Crescent Road, Crouch End, Hornsey Middlesex died 28 January 1937 at Hornsey Central Hospital Hornsey. Probate London 9 March 1937 to Mary Agnes Baxter widow. Effects £496 s 9d.
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A possibility:
Marriage, Sep qtr 1929
Alexander BAXTER
Mary A MERRYLEES
Pancras 1b 370.
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A possibility:
Marriage, Sep qtr 1929
Alexander BAXTER
Mary A MERRYLEES
Pancras 1b 370.
So did he die 1917 or 1937?
Keyboard86
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A possibility:
Marriage, Sep qtr 1929
Alexander BAXTER
Mary A MERRYLEES
Pancras 1b 370.
So did he die 1917 or 1937?
Keyboard86
I thought the point was that the father Alexander Laing Baxter had died in 1917, his death certificate yielding a Muswell Hill address as at that date for the son (and informant) Alexander Baxter, but that, other than rumours of a late marriage and a package from his estate arriving after the war, nothing further was known of the son.
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:) Missed the father bit, so apologies!
Keyboard86
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Slight problem?
No death on FreeBMD for an Alexander Baxter in 1917?!
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Slight problem?
No death on FreeBMD for an Alexander Baxter in 1917?!
Alexander Laing Baxter and family were in Scotland until at least the 1881 census, and the OP's reference to Elderslie suggests at least some of the family stayed in Scotland, so perhaps he died there?
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His nephew used to stay with him in London on his way to and from business in Spain .His uncle Baxter did not have middle names and the memory of the picture arriving in Elderslie, Scotland is from the son of that nephew who says it was post war.One more tiny clue was his involvement with supplying Bell ? taxi meters - perhaps imported from Sweden.His 1917 home was a substantial one and I'd hoped to find a will/probate but am stuck with neither place nor dates.
His sisters were close to the nephew but there is no memory of the brother back in Scotland.They were all a chatter that their mature brother had married a much younger woman !
Thanks folks,
Fransmoi.
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The marriage at reply #5 was to a significantly younger woman. Mary Agnes Merrylees was born in Islington in 1884. Her family later moved to the Hornsey area near where Alexander Baxter lived, and electoral rolls show that her parents lived next door to Alexander and Mary Agnes in Crescent Road, Crouch End after their marriage (1935-1936).
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Yes I liked the look of this one myself but the family member is quite sure of the post war period .The Swedish taximeter link has yielded a possible in the Highgate 1911 census but of no use since we already know his 1917 address .I will try for the marriage you mention as it will show his Scottish parents if correct.What a team !
Fransmoi.
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The suggested death of Alexander at reply #3 with corresponding grant of probate at reply #4 is in 1937, so only shortly before the war. It's perfectly possible I would think that the estate, albeit not a huge estate, took some time to administer thereafter (especially given the intervention of the war) and the distribution of chattels may have taken place over some years.
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The marriage certificate arived today confirming his marriage to Mary Agnes Merrylees on 20 July 1929 at the Presbyterian Church ,Regent Square , St Pancras.
He was by then 56 yrs old the widowed son of forester Alexander Laing Baxter and the manager of a taxi meter company residing 245 Grays Inn Rd.
His new bride is 45 years of age from 6 Coolhurst Rd, Crouchend and the daughter of Thomas Merrylees retired banker.
The witnesses were Mary B Merrylees and James Forrest.
All the above points to his death being 28 Jan 1937 at Hornsey Central Hospital his home address being 3 Crescent Rd, Hornsey and the probate gives his widow as Mary Agnes. She was to die 2 years later.
So the post war memory may be faulty unless the picture came from her estate later . Now to find the will and his first wife ........!
Thank you Roots chatters :)
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I would put my money on Elllen Elizabeth Porteous married Mar qtr 1912 Edmonton died Sept qtr 1926 aged 55 Edmonton
In Muswell Hill on Census before marriage and single.
jennifer