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Thanks to you all for that. I do have Ancestry so will track him down.

Hello JJ. I've been working through my grandfather's 6 siblings this winter having discovered a few basics previously. I have seen the replies to the other post.  I'm still looking into the schooling but it's likely to need more in-person research in future. The father, Benjamin died in 1902 then the mother Clara in 1922.

Of the 7 children, the three girls all went to work in the Caterham Mental Asylum near London as nurses (I don't know when), Albert stayed at home for a couple of years (maybe at school but also doing some work) then joined the Royal Marines shortly before his 14th birthday. He was invalided out after 4 or 5 years. The three younger brothers were all sent to the Royal Hospital School in Greenwich, in preparation for joining the Royal Marines. All three served throughout WW1.

In the UK, the 1880s-1920s period seems to be a good one for tracing relatives with a military connection where such detailed service records are available to go with the census returns of that time.

It's been good to learn a little more about Albert and his North American family here. 

Albert was a bit unusual in that he settled in North America. I don't believe he ever returned to the UK to visit. I vaguely recall seeing a census with Frederick Charles Pope (b1896) in the US perhaps visiting his older brother but will need to check this detail. He's the next sibling I need to look at in more detail...

Thanks JJ for your latest. I hope you don't feel I was being critical of the help here in Roots Chat. Anything but! The assistance here has been great - it always is. Apologies if my message suggested otherwise.

It was just my observation that the tree in Family Search had identified the wrong Albert Pope in the UK. I'm sure that all of the information collected on him from the time of his marriage in the UK to his life in the US and Canada is correct. I just question what came before the marriage and the tree in links to a family in Bristol rather than Plymouth. Everything about the Albert Pope here looks to be correct - it's just the details on the tree don't add up prior to the move across to Canada.

Thanks for that mmm45. I'm not sure what I was expecting - public administration sounds a bit clerical to me in this day and age. What might it have meant back then I wonder?

Thanks for that Lady Hawk.

That is indeed the license that I came across - there must have been a reason for her to have ended up in Coventry. I've not found time yet to look at her other details yet but plenty to go on.