Hi
I assume that you have chosen the following as your relative?
1895 Sept Pancras 1b 1
James William Searle
Yet you say that he is noted on the documents you have quoted as William James Searle
Why have you discounted this one...................?
1898 Sept Pancras 1b 85
William James Searle
Hi Ray! Yes the James William Searle born in 1895 is the correct one, confirmed by the naval record I purchased.
On the wedding certificate, Dorothy's father is Joseph Bartlett, a carpenter (I have done the Bartlett's already they were easy to research!) and James' father is called James William Searle, and he is a car man.
James' father I have researched already, he was born in 1870 and died on 2nd September 1936. On his probate, his fortune was left the Percy George Sillence stonemason and William Joseph Dillingham yard foreman. No mention of wife or children, but it is the correct gentleman as the address is right and so is his age at time of death.
I think there is a good chance that JW Searle Jnr has died, ran away or otherwise by 1931, as he is not on any of the electoral registers after 1931 as Dorothy is alone with her sister and brother in law and a few others. She had given birth to her three children by this point also. And I can only find James so far on a 1923 one.
