Alfred Fairey goes missing

[Gillg]

In the WW1 records I have found the enlistment form for Alfred Fairey born Oldham, who signed up in Burnley for the Army Service Corps,  His profession is given as Coachbuilder and his age 18 yrs 5 months. An-----y has the enlistment date as 1900, but I can't see it clearly.  Looks like he intended to be a professional soldier.

On Lancs BMD I found his birth in Oldham in 1884 registered as Alfred Sullivan Fairey, mother's maiden name Fairey, so presume that he was illegitimate, though his middle name may give a clue as to his father's name. 

I can't, however, find him in the 1891, when I imagine he would have been living with his mother, nor in 1901, when he may have been in the army. 

Can anyone help me trace this probable relative, please?

Gillg

[Mr. MIGKY]

Hi Gillg, on his service record papers it looks like his mother is next of kin name of Kate and can't work out the rest?
Migky 
 

[Mr. MIGKY]

Tis    Name: Kate Maud Fairey

Age: 22 
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859 
Relation: Head 

Where born: Easton, Hampshire, England
 
Civil Parish: Habergham Eaves 
County/Island: Lancashire 
Country: England 
 
Street address: 36 Barrack Rd

This is her on the 1881 census  RG11/4154

[Gillg]

Hi Migky

I have only managed to see something called a Short Service form on An-------y, which didn't have much information on it.  He does sign with very nice handwriting, though.  How do I find the full record?

Could the next of kin's name be Kate?  We do have a Kate Maud Fairey, born 1858, who moved with her family to Burnley in the 1880s and never married.

Gillg    

Oh, I've just seen your second reply.  Great minds think alike!  She's looking after her siblings in 1881 while her twice widowed mother visits relatives in London.  But I'm not sure where she is in 1891 and 1901.  There's probably a spelling error in the census records.  She was born in Easton, Hunts, not Hants - that's a frequent transcription error I meet.  I know she returned to Huntingdonshire and died there unmarried in 1911.

Many thanks

Gillg

[Mr. MIGKY]

It is Kate maud on the second page of his short service records, half way down the page and very faint but it is her.

[cath151]

hi,
and on the 1891
Rg12/3370  7/8

279, Padiham rd, Habergham Eaves, Burnley.

Mercy Crow  head mar  52             Dressmaker Spaldwick, Hunts.
Kate Maud Fairey   dau   s   30      Dressmaker     Easton, Hants.
Alfred Fairey           son    s  6   Scholar              Oldham, Lancs.
Isaac   "                  son    s 21  Weaver Cotton  Easton, Hunts
Nellie Crow            dau        10 Scholar               Burnley, Lancs.
Squire Whittam  son in law mar  27 Weaver Cotton  "       "
Edith Agnes Whittam  dau in law 2                            "        "

A few relationships to sort out there then!  On a* they are down as Crows but image says Fairey.
Best wishes
 Cathy  

[Gillg]

Here we go then -

Mercy was married twice, firstly to Isaac Fairey, then to James Crow.  Mercy & James had daughter Nellie.

Kate & Isaac were the children of Mercy & Isaac Fairey.

Squire Whittam married Isaac & Mercy's daughter Lavinia and had daughter Edith Agnes.

Which leaves Kate Maud with an illegitimate son Alfred, about whom I had no idea.   Kate and siblings were my grandfather's much older cousins, children of my gt-grandfather's older brother.

Thanks very much, Migky and Cathy.  I wonder what happened to Alfred after he enlisted?

Regards
Gillg

[mosiefish]

Hi Gill,

On the 1901 she is listed as Kate Maud Fairley aged 40 born Easton Hants and living at 134 Padiham Road, Burnley.  No Alfred - probably serving in South Africa. 

Reference is RG13/3871 folio 139 page 7

By the way, you are actually lucky to find that record as it is estimated that only 10% of these records survived a bombing in WW2.

Regards,
Mo

[Dale]

Kia Ora Gill
There's a possibility he died in WW1 as A Fairey Private  18/740 Durham Light Infantry on  12/4/1918.

By that time many men had been transferred from their original regiment to make up numbers in others.

It might be worth a try on the "Great War Forum" - somone may have the Regimental Diary or similar.

Alternatively  there might be a  steer to records for the Boer War?

Delighted to find another Fairey allocated a home!
Regards
Marlene