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Searching for details,  photographs or any information from any surviving family of Thomas Arthur WILLIS bn  8 May 1903.       1,  Laindon Station Cottages

Family "   CENSUS 1911   ftr.  Walter Henry yr 42 ( Grt. Burstead)  PLATE LAYER - wfe Alice Annie   yr 29 -  sn Walter George  yr 12 - dtr Rose Alice  yr 11 - dtr. Lily Elizabeth  yr 8 -  THOMAS ARTHUR    7 yr--George Ernest 3 -  Eliza KEMP  yr 59- visitor.

Thomas Arthur WILLIS    employed at "Churchill Johnston Builders" 1925?

 Arthur  Thomas  WILLIS mrd.1928   Qtr.3 Chelmsford  Spouse  GRIDLEY Jessie M.Vol no 4A  Page 1798

Electoral Rolls  1926-1927   -- WILLIS Thomas-  WILLIS Edward John   --- Woodland Road near Station.

Any information gratefully received.

John

 

I have reliable information from a deceased  Aunt that my paternal father was Arthur ?----? Willis born c. 1900 -  ?  area CORPORATION Rd.,, WEST HAM. Mother had sweet shop near train station?. Arthur ?----? Wiilis  lived and worked In Laindon  where I was born 1926. and may have returned to West Ham. My mother passed away 1980 without passing any details of my father that I  might find useful.

I would be interested of any such WILLIS  families who might have  any such details that might be useful in my searches. Any information gratefully received.

Regards, John     

WEST HAM, searching for any family WILLIS, Arthur bn.c.1900 in the vicinity CORPORATION St. and moved to  Laindon, Essex  1925  working in the building trade. Family information passed on  shows that ARTHUR (---- ) WILLIS was my paternal father and was not passed on to me before my mother passed away 1980.

Are there any Wiilis family with any such family records? Does any one have any relevant information that would be any help in my searches

Johnpeeler

Hi Janinez ,

Thanks for the reply  and have  searched    the   family   and now interested in any surviving children and background if possible. I am particularly in Arthur Walter WLLIS as  I am aware I am related .

Your information does fill a couple of the background answers to Ellen Willis so many thanks.

John

Hi janine,

I have wondered about my true father for 70 years  (I am now 84) and picking up a free offer from Ancestry.co over the "Poppy"week ending  Sunday 14 November 2010, I searched for a Arthur Walter WILLIS as an alternative  to that I had searched previously.

All the details of his enlistment tied in exactly with his father and mother, George and Ellen WILLIS, details that I had previously searched and recorded. What a surprise and could not get over this information and it made my day having recently having just come out of hospital after major surgery.

It transpired that my  "father", Arthur WILLIS 14895, enlisted in the Wiltshire Regiment 7-9-1914 and then on to the  7th (S)  13th Royal Dublin Fusiliers  and then went out to Gallipoli where he was wounded in the thigh and eventully arrved home as records show he married Charlotte Gotobed and he died at Whipps Cross Hospital 1930.

My mother never would tell me any of the details of my father but I am more satisfied to learn more of his background but small points remain outstanding.

So if any one has any detials of the  GEORGE WILLIS family who had four sons/family,  13 Warmington St, 1911 census  Plaistow who might originate from West Ham, Plaistow.  area I would be more than pleased to make contact.

Regards John