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Title: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: duckpuddle on Saturday 12 April 14 08:13 BST (UK)
Can someone please lookup Thomas Frank Stocker born 1st October 1897 Willesden Brent
Death Certificate says Thomas Frank Stocker otherwise Francis Stocker???
I don't know his parents the death certificate was not helpful but know its  the correct one as
I knew the daughter who is now deceased.
I am having trouble finding him on the 1901 census.
Any help would be very much appreciated to put me on the right trail.
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 12 April 14 08:19 BST (UK)
This could be his birth registration from freebmd
December qtr 1897   
Francis Stocker       
Hendon reg district
3a   231    
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 12 April 14 08:21 BST (UK)
Who did he marry
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: rosie17 on Saturday 12 April 14 14:12 BST (UK)
There is a Frank Stocker born 1898 Willesden in the 1901 census with father William 44,mother Elizabeth 34, and there are 9 children in the family Civil Parish Willesden Middlesex ( possible )
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: rosie17 on Saturday 12 April 14 14:18 BST (UK)
I can't post details of 1911 census but down as Thomas now if the is the same person
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: dawnsh on Saturday 12 April 14 17:59 BST (UK)
Baptism worth considering, address ties up with 1901 census

St Augustines Paddington

20 Oct 1897

Francis Michael Stocker, parents William & Elizabeth, of 87 Cambridge Road, occ Horse-keeper
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: duckpuddle on Sunday 13 April 14 06:21 BST (UK)
Thank you Rosie17 and Dawnish. I thought this but with three different names Thomas 1911, Frank 1901 census then another curveball with Francis was unsure, also in Army records it comes up Thomas Frank Stocker but with father as Edward W Stocker, 120 Cambridge Road, Kilburn???? My Grandfather always known as Tom did not marry until 1967 Gladys Maude Tracey (Lay) they had 7 children named Stocker the first had no father named on Birth Certificate was Lay where as all the others had the Stocker surname. I don't know if he was married before being the reason he married late.
On the Death Certificate it has Place of birth Willesden Brent 1/10/1897.
any help is much appreciated.
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: duckpuddle on Sunday 13 April 14 06:33 BST (UK)
Could Thomas have had a twin brother Francis Michael that may not have survived??
Just a thought or did they have separate baptismal names then?
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: dawnsh on Sunday 13 April 14 09:49 BST (UK)
who registered his death?

maybe they didn't know the name he had been given at birth or he had gone through life using a different name.

My father doesn't use his birth name and everyone is surprised when they find out what his birth name is.
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: rosie17 on Sunday 13 April 14 12:41 BST (UK)
Do you have the children's names as usually the eldest son is normally called after the grandfather do you have the marriage lines as it might tell you a bit more  :) :)
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: duckpuddle on Monday 14 April 14 06:31 BST (UK)
who registered his death?

maybe they didn't know the name he had been given at birth or he had gone through life using a different name.

My father doesn't use his birth name and everyone is surprised when they find out what his birth name is.

His youngest daughter registered his death she is also deceased now.
I have looked up the Death register and it has two records on the page same death year and birth year same district of Hendon one is for Francis and the other Thomas Frank the volume 13 and page number 0758 are the same I have the certificate for Thomas. 
Do they normally do this when someone is known by different name or does it have to be done
by deed poll name change?

Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: duckpuddle on Monday 14 April 14 06:45 BST (UK)
Do you have the children's names as usually the eldest son is normally called after the grandfather do you have the marriage lines as it might tell you a bit more  :) :)

Thomas (francis) had 5 girls and 3 boys one of the boys was also named Thomas. His father if
it was William who married Elizabeth the name was not carried on to next generation, William Paul Stocker had a son William.

Thomas has a record of father Edward W Stocker on his Army records address 120 Cambridge Rd
I am so confused what a mixed up family, I want to make sure I am ordering the right
family records

Thanks Rosie
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 14 April 14 08:26 BST (UK)
Do they normally do this when someone is known by different name or does it have to be done
by deed poll name change?

Apparently you can call yourself what you like providing it is not for fraudulent purposes, you do not have to change your name by deed poll.  The GRO do index these examples separately as you have found.

Rosie
Title: Re: Thomas Frank Stocker
Post by: dawnsh on Monday 14 April 14 08:43 BST (UK)
If 2 names are recorded on the death cert as has happened here, there will be 2 entries in the death index reflecting each name, but there will only be one death certificate.