Alfred Charles Hollex June 1895 Stow 4a 823

[arnaud]

My man  fathered Isabel S Hollex 1911-1936 & Lily May Hollex 1913-1986 by Ethel Mary Mills born 1895 Bury St Edmunds- no trace of marriage. Then is said to have been killed at Gallipoli- no military records. In trying to find his parents I have come up with Hollies,Hollis,Hollix, Hobit,Hollox,Lecks & Leeks. 1901 census comes up with just one Hollex in Suffolk, Susannah from Monks Eleigh. 1911 is more fruitful but there are only summary books on ancestry. Any ideas?

[Sharon01]

Hi,

Have you ruled out this death record.

Alfred Charles Hollex
Birth Date 30/05/1895
Date of Registration Jun 1977
Age at Death 82
Registration District Bury St edmunds
(10 2184)

Sharon

[suzard]

Is this Alfred??

1901
Lower green Felsham Suffolk (Stow reg dist)
Charles Hollex head M Horseman on Farm MonksLeigh Suffolk
Elizabeth wife 35 Kell??aston Suffolk
Frederick son 17 Shepherd page on Farm Monk Leigh
William son 15 Ordinary ag lab Brentenham Suffolk
John son 9 Felsham Suffolk
Walter son 7 Felsham
ALFRED son 5 Felsham
Arthur son 4 Felsham
Edith daughter 1 Felsham
RG13 1760 40 9

Suz

[suzard]

Looks like Alfred's brother Frederick was killed in WW1

Frederick Charles Hollex
death 4 Nov 1918
France & Flanders
Joined at Sudbury Suffolk
Lance Corporal
Lancs Fusiliers 16th Batt
325030
Killed in Action
#formerly 331063 Cambridge Reg

There is a mrriage for Frederick Hollex in Stow reg dist 1909 - don't know who he married tho

Suz

[trish1120]

1911 Census they are under HORREX, full image is there

EDIT there is a Child in 1917 and 1924 also, Mothers maiden name Mills

[trish1120]

Possible?
But that doesnt explain 1924 Horrex Child.

UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 about Alfred HORREX
Name:    Alfred Horrex
Residence:    Islington
Death Date:    31 Oct 1917
Death Location:    Home
Enlistment Location:    Chelmsford
Rank:    Wheeler
Regiment:    Royal Army Service Corps
Number:    T4/243057
Type of Casualty:    Died
Theatre of War:    Home

This ones Death Reg seems to be;
Alfred HORREX, Dec 1917, West Derby, 8b 575, age 29 (Birth c 1887/8)

EDIT
Possibly a different Family as lots of Horrex in Essex.
Maybe this is where the confusion of Family memories that he died WW1 comes from?

[suzard]

On Commonwealth War Graves Commission it gives Frederick Charles Hollex's wife as E.R.Hollex of Wood Cottage Brettenham Ipswich.
Frederick Charles marriage reg is Mar qtr 1909 Stow 4a 1064
Unfortunately there are an odd number of names on page

Strangely same qtr yr and district page 1054 is |Ethel Rose Mills???

There are deaths on Commonwealth war graves for John Robert Hollex age 24 in 1915  and A T Hollex in 1917
They are both the sons of Charles and Elizabeth Hollex of Lower Green Felsham

so could A. T be the Alfred you are seeking ???and his middle initial has been mistranscribed??
EDIT : it looks like A.T. Hollex is ARTHUR THOMAS HOLLEX - Alfred 's younger brother

Or is it really Frederick Charles you are looking for??


Suz

[arnaud]

Merci. Thanks to you ladies I've traced the family back through all the variations, even transcribed as Hobit on ancestry. But this doesn't solve the more recent mysteries of the missing marriage to Miss Mills, military life, & two stray children after the war. Did they just seperate & he is the Alfred who made old bones? Perhaps Ethel Mary Mills was not truthful to her children about her past, she went on to other adventures in Dorset. A few certificates needed methinks.

[avm228]

In the GRO index itself (as opposed to FreeBMD etc transcriptions) there are these marriage entries:

Marriages, Mar qtr 1909

George Edward AYLING
Frederick HOLLEX
Agnes Mary K BUCKLE
Ethel Rose MILLS

on the same page, Stow 4a 1064.