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Title: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: Gaskinhunt on Sunday 13 October 19 19:33 BST (UK)
My gran was a gypsy and I have pictures of her growing up with the traditional caravans. She was related to the Fletchers from the Birmingham area and the Gaskins from Sudbury. Alfred Gaskin was enlisted into the labour corps in byker and he was from Sudbury. He was killed in 1917 outside totes and I visit his grave every year.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: Gaskinhunt on Sunday 13 October 19 19:34 BST (UK)
She married into the Hunt family who were from Lancashire and possibly originally from Ireland and settled in Gateshead.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: silvery on Sunday 13 October 19 23:08 BST (UK)
Have you got any names?    What exactly do you want to find out?
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: Gaskinhunt on Monday 14 October 19 07:45 BST (UK)
Hi, I’m looking to establish if the Gaskin family that appear to have links in Tiptree / Kelvedon are my relatives who were based around Sudbury and some of whom ended up in the north east. Are there any links known to Alfred (Alfie) Gaskin to the Tiptree / Kelvedon mentioned Gaskins ?
As for names, my great grandmother is Eliza Gaskin and she married Bertie Fletcher. Does anyone have any knowledge ?
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: PaulineJ on Monday 14 October 19 08:49 BST (UK)
He was killed in 1917 outside totes and I visit his grave every year.

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/455435/gaskin,-/  No age given. Is this "your" chap?
You need to supply at least one definitive, verifiable  date for us to get anywhere...

Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: Brentor boy on Monday 14 October 19 09:00 BST (UK)
If I have the correct record, when Eliza married Bertie in 1909 her name was registered as Gascoin.

What was was the relationship between Eliza and Alfred? I see the CWGC record for Alfred is minimal.

You say " she married into the Hunt family". Explain, please.

To help you, we need more specific details of names, dates/ages, relationships and locations.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Monday 14 October 19 09:14 BST (UK)
Just adding this, if marriage is not that posted above:

Marriages December quarter   1901
Priscilla Cammish   Burton   6b  741
Samuel Herbert   Fletcher Burton  6b 741
Ann Elizabeth Gaskin    Burton  6b 74
1

William Holmes  Burton   6b  741
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: Gaskinhunt on Sunday 20 October 19 19:18 BST (UK)
Hi everyone who took the time to reply. The war record is correct and that is my relative.

Bertie Fletcher and Eliza Gaskin are my great grandparents and my gran, their daughter was lenorah and she married into the Hunt family in Gateshead.

As far as I know the Fletchers were from the Birmingham area.

Alfie Gaskin was enlisted into the army in ww1 at Byker show ground in 1917.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: Gaskinhunt on Sunday 20 October 19 19:20 BST (UK)
This is Alfie Gaskin’s picture, memorial document.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Sunday 20 October 19 23:21 BST (UK)
Just putting the birth:
Births March quarter 1918
 Lenorah Fletcher mmn  Gaskin
 Newcastle T   10b  271

and marriage, with different spelling:
Marriages September quarter   1943 
 Leonora Fletcher    Hunt   Gateshead  10a 1849
 Joseph Hunt    Fletcher   Gateshead  10a  1849
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Sunday 20 October 19 23:33 BST (UK)
This is the marriage that Brentor Boy found:
Marriages September quarter  1909 
 Bertie Fletcher   Aston  6d  545
 Eliza Gascoin   Aston  6d  545

get the certificate for confirmation of their Father's names, and find them in 1939(with Leonora) for exact dates of birth.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Sunday 20 October 19 23:39 BST (UK)
The family is in 7 or 8 family trees on Ancestry, some with many pictures - are you aware of them?

One of them is yours?
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Monday 21 October 19 00:06 BST (UK)
Is this Alfred?
WW1 pensions card
Alfred Gaskin
Rank:  Pte.  Death Date:  26 Aug 1917
Service Number:  227,344
Corps, Regiment or Unit:  738th. Area Emplory Coy
Other Ranks Died Gash A-Gaunt H  (??  Do not have access to original)
Reference Number:  1. W. C. 987
Relation to Soldier  Alfred Gaskin
 Leonora Gaskin   Widow
Mathew Gaskin   Child
Andrew Gaskin   Children
Lovaine Gaskin   Children

Born Sudbury, enlisted Newcastle, from other information.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Monday 21 October 19 00:17 BST (UK)
If you know he enlisted at Byker Show Ground from his service records, then you know that he was 28, his wife was Leonora Aymer, and they married in Glasgow.

This one?
Alfred Gaskin    Leonora Hamar        1908  644/2 341  Camlachie
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Monday 21 October 19 07:31 BST (UK)
The children might be
15/11/09  Mathew
09/08/11  Alfred ?
not even sure if a name and date is here or attached to 'Lovaine'
  23/05/1X     'Lovaine' 

Born in Camlachie with surname Gaskin
Alfred Gaskie  1911
Juanita Hamar Gaskin  1915
This looks like Matthew
 Matthew Gaskin mmn Hamer  December quarter 1909 in Ashton-under-Lyne
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Monday 21 October 19 07:42 BST (UK)
Leonora looks to have had an address as 50 Bangor Road, Leith, Alfred's parents are Walter and Alice of the Showground, and he had a brother Monte(??).  Leonora is living at the Showgrounds when he dies.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Monday 21 October 19 07:56 BST (UK)
This looks like Alfred's family from 1901 census
Living in Headingley cum Burley in a caravan
Walter Gascon   44  Essex   Hampstead?
Alice Gascon   42  Beccles, Suffolk
Montagu Gascon  20  Ely
Mark Gascon   17  Mildenhall
Eliza Gascon   15   Norfolk
Alfred Gascon   11   Wells, Norfolk
Matilda Gascon   8  Norfolk
Ada Gascon   7  Norfolk
Louisa Gascon   5   Halifax

Added:
and 1891 (did not age between 1891 and 1901)
Living in a caravan in Norwich, and all born Essex
Walter Gaskin   45
Alice Gaskin   42
Salina Gaskin   16
Walter Gaskin   14
Monty Gaskin   12
Mark Gaskin   8
Eliza Gaskin   6
Alfred Gaskin   3
Matilda Gaskin   3/12
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Monday 21 October 19 08:40 BST (UK)
Walter and Alice might be in Kincardine in 1911 census (ages 55 and 53).

Possible marriage
Marriages June quarter  1872
 Walter Gaskin   Bury St. E.   4a  738
 Alice  Lamb   Bury St. E.   4a  738

but those ages in 1911 and 1901 would be wrong, 1891 looks a more accurate situation.

Marriage would fit with this birth
Walter Gaskin mmn Lamb
GRO Reference: 1875  D Quarter in GUILTCROSS  Volume 04B  Page 236
However, I can see some other Gaskin/Lamb births around the country, but not to agree with censuses.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Monday 21 October 19 09:08 BST (UK)
Agnes Eliza Gaskyn, possibly Eliza in 1891 census, born 24 December 1885, baptised 4th April 1886, parents Walter and Alice, living in a caravan, occupation as Gypsy.  Colkirk, Norfolk.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: chempat on Monday 21 October 19 13:55 BST (UK)
I think Agnes Eliza Gaskyn is also your great grandmother.
From her (Eliza's) marriage to Bert Fletcher, her father is Walter Gaskin.

Are we trying to link to Tiptree/Kelvedon Gaskins, and who are they anyway?
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: norosesnoroses on Sunday 07 June 20 10:57 BST (UK)
Hello! I'm new to all this. Could you please tell me how Alfred Gaskin in the first group relates to Walter Gaskin in the second?

Thank you!

This looks like Alfred's family from 1901 census
Living in Headingley cum Burley in a caravan
Walter Gascon   44  Essex   Hampstead?
Alice Gascon   42  Beccles, Suffolk
Montagu Gascon  20  Ely
Mark Gascon   17  Mildenhall
Eliza Gascon   15   Norfolk
Alfred Gascon   11   Wells, Norfolk
Matilda Gascon   8  Norfolk
Ada Gascon   7  Norfolk
Louisa Gascon   5   Halifax

Added:
and 1891 (did not age between 1891 and 1901)
Living in a caravan in Norwich, and all born Essex
Walter Gaskin   45
Alice Gaskin   42
Salina Gaskin   16
Walter Gaskin   14
Monty Gaskin   12
Mark Gaskin   8
Eliza Gaskin   6
Alfred Gaskin   3
Matilda Gaskin   3/12
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: PaulineJ on Sunday 07 June 20 12:05 BST (UK)
You are looking at what appears to be the same family unit in 2 different census years.

Relationship looks like parent and child.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: Gaskinhunt on Sunday 29 November 20 20:09 GMT (UK)
I everyone, apologies as I have only jut been able to pick this back up again. I've been reading the enclosed with great interest.

Interestingly, I was contacted through Ancestry by a Donna Price from Cheshire who has told me she is a Romany and matches my DNA. Her mother's side are from Norfolk originally. Although she knows the Gaskins as a family name, she doesn't know how we are both connected to one another. She is of the view we are connected through her mother's side of the family (Greys). Be interested to learn is the Greys are connected to the Gaskins in some way.
Title: Re: Fletcher / Gaskin
Post by: Mark Brown Lamb on Saturday 31 May 25 07:55 BST (UK)
I was contacted through Ancestry by a Donna Price from Cheshire who has told me she is a Romany and matches my DNA. Her mother's side are from Norfolk originally. Although she knows the Gaskins as a family name, she doesn't know how we are both connected to one another. She is of the view we are connected through her mother's side of the family (Greys). Be interested to learn is the Greys are connected to the Gaskins in some way.

I don't think it's through Gaskin or Gray. It'll be on Bertie's side via Fletcher or possibly Hoadley or even both. They are connected to Donna's Tapsell tree.