Austin Birtwhistle

[Birtwhistle]

Anyone know this name? My great grandfather born around 1890, may or may not have been married to my great grandfather - lived in Rhyl with her probably from around 1910 to 1915, my grandmother was born then and then disappeared and was never seen again. My grandmother thought he had a second (or first) family somewhere else. He is not on any census but is on her birth certificate and did fight in the first world war in 1914, possibly in the  Cheshire Regiment. Her middle name was Louvain, which was destroyed by the Germans August 1914 and my grandmother always said he had been there, which must have been between August and December of that year as she was born December. Desperate to find out what happened to him, somehow he left a gap in the family which still resonates now. Anyone out there got a Austin Birtwhistle as a grandfather?

[CaroleW]

There is this marriage

Austin Birtwhistle March qtr 1906 Glossop 7b 1120 

to either Mary Emily Griffiths or Mary Elizabeth Mellor

[CaroleW]

WW1 medal cards show Austin Birtwhistle Cheshire regiment reg number 60817

[mersey_view]

There is this marriage

Austin Birtwhistle March qtr 1906 Glossop 7b 1120 

to either Mary Emily Griffiths or Mary Elizabeth Mellor

Hi, i don't have a subscription to the 1911 census, but just on a search, the other male party in the marriage list is
a George William Casey, and in the 1911 search results there is a George William Casey living with a
Mary Elizabeth in the Ashton-under-Lyne registration district.
So it would appear that Austin Birtwhistle married Mary Emily Griffiths in 1906.

regards
Al

[mersey_view]

Hi,

i see there is a death of a Mary E. Birtwhistle aged 23 in June qrt. 1906
in Stockport registration district, possibly the newly married wife of Austin.

regards
Al.

[Mr. MIGKY]

Cheshire BMD has the above death in the sub district of Bredbury.
Migky 

Click 4Mary Emily BIRTWHISTLE death

[mosiefish]

Hi,

Not much help but a possibility from the 1928 BT Phone Book:

Birtwhistle, Austin, Frtr. 97 Harbour St.  Phone Whitstable 334

Regards,
Mo

[Manchester Rambler]

This gentleman seems to be in Rhyl on the 1911 index, and appears on the 1881 and 1891 censuses with the same spelling:

Births Sep 1878  
BIRDWHISTLE   Austin        
Ashton 8d 545

Marriages Mar 1908
BIRDWHISTLE   Austin       
HUGHES   Sarah Ann        
St Asaph 11b 438

There is a possible daughter registered in St Asaph district in Jan Q 1915 under the surname BIRTWHISTLE (mother HUGHES) who has middle initial L.

Rambler

[mosiefish]

Hi,

There appears to be two threads.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,456083.msg3173562.html#msg3173562

Mo