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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Fred Gates, Raunds
« on: Tuesday 02 June 15 09:32 BST (UK)  »
Yes there were two Fred Gates in the same area. The one who is your grandfather I believe died in Raunds on 11th June 1946 aged 61. Yes it is confusing that there were two people with the same name in the same area.

There is an F Gates listed as one of the marchers in the the 1905 Raunds Strike of boot makers and march to London but again I have no idea if this is my Fred or yours.
 

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Fred Gates, Raunds
« on: Wednesday 27 May 15 15:06 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to you all for your replies.

In particular Stebie9173. Yes you did make an extensive reply to Michael who passed it on to me. That reply forms the core of information I have on Fred. Since then the only thing I have been able to add is, as I said here in my original post, that having visited Raunds a year ago to take a look at the three addresses the Gates family had lived at I was astonished to see, at the junction of Hill St. and Gladstone St. another street sign for Laswon St. This is clearly where the new name came from but I am still no closer to finding why the name was changed.


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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Fred Gates, Raunds
« on: Tuesday 19 May 15 12:15 BST (UK)  »
Thanks seahall, larkspur and whiteout7,

We've thought of bigamy but I can find no record of other marriages. The military medal has his name as Sgt Fred Gates No. 16972. Wasn't aware of the medal card or medal roll for Fred and Walter. How do I check these out?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Fred Gates, Raunds
« on: Tuesday 19 May 15 10:04 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Victor,

Kenneth and Mary are my uncle and mother

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Family History Beginners Board / Fred Gates, Raunds
« on: Monday 18 May 15 19:25 BST (UK)  »
My grandfather Fred Lawson started life as Fred Gates in Raunds in Northamptonshire, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Gates. For some reason he changed his name to Herbert Frederick (Fred) Lawson during the first World War, apparently choosing the name Lawson from a street name in Raunds just yards from the Gates family home. In October 1915 he was awarded the military medal for action on the Somme but there is no longer any record of why the medal was given. Four months later he married my grandmother in Cheltenham as Fred Lawson but was back in France again and injured in August 1916.  There is an article from the Peterborough Advertiser in 1916 about three Gates brothers all injured in France around the same time, Fred, Walter and Earnest. (See attachment)
According to my mother (Fred’s daughter) Fred lived out the rest of his life as Fred Lawson, living and working as a cobbler in Cheltenham, occasionally disappearing for a few months at a time, with letters addressed to Gates in Raunds and occasional visits from ‘uncle’ Walter Gates.
Can anyone help with information about the medal or the change of name? Are there any living descendants of the Gates family who could shed some light on this puzzle?

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