Ewing

[ozmouse]

Ewing:  Anthony Wilson born 1889 Fifeshire, Scotland
married Beatrice Kirkham 1918, emigrated to Australia after WW1.
Can find nothing on him on 1891- 1901 census

Any help appreciated

[diddymiller]

A W Ewings military records in full are on Ancestry and include the following:

Former trade: stud groom
Enlisted in London 20/9/1915
Home address given as:  41 Pocock? street, Blackfriars, london

Was in Royal Engineers Reg No. 129209
Seems to have pretty unhealthy:

1916  gassed - in hospital in Manchester
30/11/16 - 3/1/17 Military hospital Gravesend (had been in france)
10/10/18 - 28 /2/19 springbow-woodside hospital,Glasgow then trnsfered to Wandsworth.
This was for Chronic Epididymitis of the right testicle and resulted in him being transfered to the reserves on 28/3/1919 because not fit for marching.

place of birth given as; Angus, fifeshire.

Worth looking for census in london i think as given as home address in 1915.

Diddy

[diddymiller]

Mistake - Angus is not Fifeshire - that may be why you can't find him if putting in wrong info.
birth place in military records def. Angus

Diddy

[diddymiller]

have you got marriage record?

sept 1918 Southwark (London)
1d/ 95

[AMBLY]

Hi ozmouse

His birth is registerd on Scotlands people as:
Anthony Wilson EWINGS
1889 Arngask, ( Fife or Perthshire or Kinross) *

*It's indexed under all 3

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/FIF/parishes/Arngask/index.htm
Until 15th May 1891, the parish of Arngask was situated partly in the county of Fife, partly in the county of Kinross and partly in the county of Perth. On that date, various changes to the parish and county boundaries were made. From that date the whole parish of Arngask was included in the county of Perth.

Obtaining this certificate will name at least his mother, and hopefully his father!

Cheers
AMBLY

[AMBLY]

On the Military record, in the margins of page 3,  his Next of Kin is given as: Miss KIRKHAM of 41 Pocock St London SE1.

Cheers
AMBLY

[diddymiller]

well done Ambly. must have missed NOK although got the address   

Diddy

[diddymiller]

couldn't wait:

Anthony Wilson Ewings  b. June 13th 1889 Arngask

Father:  Samuel Ewings  gardener
Mother: Charlotte Jane  M.S Wilson

They were married Aug 27th 1878 Connor, Cty Antrim, Ireland

  Diddy

[AMBLY]

Cool! DIddy  That was nice of you to do 
I was just posting up the following, so some is bit redundant now!

If he's in Scotland or England in those 2 Census , he's hiding well!
Can you spot anything at all Diddy, I can't!      

Between 1881 and 1920, his is the only EWING* in Arngask indexed on SP.
Wonder if his father was Military, and wasn't long there?
Or he was illigitimate and his mother married before the 1891, wherein AW is under a different surname (still can't find any Anthony anything,  though!)

His POB is all over the place, at first glance - however:
On Military Records, it does say  on page 17 born Angus Fifeshire - but I would hazard a guess that the official writing on the form thought he heard "Angus" and in fact AW actually said "Arngask" ?? Said out loud, I can see how it happened!
On an earlier page, his POB is listed just as Perthshire, Scot.
In the Australia National  Archives site, he is listed as born 13 Jun 1889 FIfeshire.
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch.aspx

Do you have his death certificate, ozmouse?

Cheers
AMBLY