Author Topic: WiggyHobbes Scavenger Hunt - Part 2 (Read 17821 times)

majm · « **Reply #81 on:** Monday 25 April 11 06:34 BST (UK) »

Idleart,

Agh but do you understand that ECG was father Edna or only to the two younger ones ... hoping to pin down a year for his last sighting ... and still giving a tad of consideration to a marriage for an Edward GAUNT and Elizabeth CONNOLLY as per index this was 1915 at West Derby Registry Office ... and copy of that certificate can be ordered via Lancashire BDM reference REG WD/313/107 .... this ref number is so very very close to that website's ref for Edith GAUNT's marriage to George Forsyth ... (REG WD/313/117)

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/

Cheers, JM

Idleart, RChat is a great place for help with any of your ancestors ... and the Scavenger Hunts are fantastic as so many fresh eyes are always willing to help.

Ummm.... he fetched himself off to IOM ... now what did he intend doing there ...

And Wiggy and Barbara, I can hear you saying HE WENT TO HIDE, he was most Ernest in his endeavours .... yes, well but of course ... "Wiggy's Teddy went to IOM for it is beyond the seas". Most likely it reminded him of VDL err TAS

Wiggy · « **Reply #82 on:** Monday 25 April 11 06:58 BST (UK) »

yer talking in riddles MAJM!!

I have found another marriage close to Edith and George Forsyth - Cecil Edward married Florence B Towers 7a 451 - only two records away from Edith . Names reversal - happened in Leicester - I thought someone had said the other Edward marriage close to Edith was a furfy - didn't someone find that was a different bloke - will have to check again now!

I can understand why the family weren't in a hurry to meet up with our Ed again - sounds as if he wasn't the best of fathers!!

How can I see those records without spending good money on them?? - 'cos though I'd like to find him, there are lots of other direct ancestors I'd rather spend my pennies on!! And if there is now way then . . . I guess he is going to remain hidden!

I will now chase Claude in Australia.

Do we have any clues as to which part of Australia, please Idleart?

Seems as you all suggested that Edward was not father of Edna - though she did take after him in some ways by the sound of things from other contacts I've made.
The 'Edward as father' and the 'widowhood' could have been matters of convenience as was suggested by several.

Wiggy

majm · « **Reply #83 on:** Monday 25 April 11 07:26 BST (UK) »

Wiggy are you looking at GRO marriages, or at the LANCS link .... cause both Edward GAUNT and Edith GAUNT are recorded as at West Derby Registry Office in 1915 at the Lancs link. (twelve marriages for surname GAUNT in 1915 in Lancashire on that website)...

GRO
Cecil Edward GAUNT is in Volume 7a .... 1st Qtr 1915
Edith GAUNT is in Volume 8b 1st Qtr 1915
Edward GAUNT is in Volume 8b 4th Qtr 1915

Volume 8b covered The district W.Derby is an alternative name for West Derby and it is in the county of Lancashire

Volume 7a covered The district Leicester is an alternative name for Leicester and it is in the county of Leicestershire

Cheers, JM (talking in riddles !!!, well that's what happens when using wifi, at least though it is on a stick thingy and not via the even more clunky reader tablet)...

Wiggy · « **Reply #84 on:** Monday 25 April 11 07:48 BST (UK) »

No - I know it happened - but I think someone found that other Edward on the birth register - that's what I meant. I think it was proven that he was another Edward.

Will have to re read the whole thread again!! I am getting confused again!

regross · « **Reply #85 on:** Monday 25 April 11 07:52 BST (UK) »

Wiggy nice to see you working on this puzzle with a scavenger hunt.

you have probably seen these but nothing ventrued nothing gained

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=THD19000428.2.52&l=mi&e=-------10--1----0--

reported in American papers also
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1900-07-01/ed-1/seq-10/;words=Cecil+Gaunt

which makes me wonder why report almost word for word the same thing in the NY papers.

canadian link for 1915 ww1servicerecord for an Edward Guant service record
remote chance but there is a canadian link for his son
http://www.archive.org/details/CEF_39thBattalion_1915

added also most likely a coincidence but note paretnts names
http://www.awm.gov.au/research/people/roll_of_honour/person.asp?p=578702

Robyn

Wiggy · « **Reply #86 on:** Monday 25 April 11 09:31 BST (UK) »

Hi Robyn

No, I hadn't seen any of those - but none of them apply to our Gaunts. The co-incidence of names is interesting isn't it.

the family of this one has ended up in NZ, but not as Gaunts!

thanks for the links!

Wiggy

idleart · « **Reply #87 on:** Monday 25 April 11 22:06 BST (UK) »

found this don't know if it's of any relevance though

http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=I&id=SWD1/1/241

Wiggy · « **Reply #88 on:** Monday 25 April 11 22:19 BST (UK) »

Well that's an interesting one

- I don't think it is 'related' - Edward C didn't have any children by his first marriage and Edward senior, Gx2, stayed with his real name - too well known to be anyone else I think.

Don't stop looking though!!!

Wiggy

regross · « **Reply #89 on:** Tuesday 26 April 11 06:16 BST (UK) »

Wiggy

Just a couple of examples or events where serving war personel died in teh time period and not all were idenetified.

http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCasAlpha1914-18G.htm
http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/Letters/NWHulldiedinexplosionofHM.html

and intersting South afrian co-inicdence of engenieer reistrations in the time frame:
http://www.ecsa.co.za/index.asp?x=seek

Robyn

RootsChat.Com