Thorne's of St German Saltash

[Eska]

That is very strange because my father told me that my great grandfather had died which was why my grandad signed up for WW1 under age. I am aware that Beresford Thorne is listed as serving in the first world war as I have checked this, therefore I believed that part to be true. I wonder if there is a possibility that my Grandfathers father wasn't Charles William Thorne and was the son of Beresford Cazenove Scott who died 1907.

[osprey]

if you have his birth cert and that shows him as son of Charles William, as his baptism does, Charles William believed him to be his son. Beresford Cazenove Scott was also in the Royal Navy, he may have been a friend of Charles William who then named his son after him.
 
http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=baptisms&id=1238278

[osprey]

It looks like Charles & Alice did not marry. His service record shows that his estate was left to Alice Garner.

Her death registration
Alice A E G Thorne 89 sept qtr 1958 Southampton vol 6b pg 561

[Eska]

Thank you, I checked out the National Archives and it appears that Alice didn't marry Charles as she is refereed to as Mrs Garner. The address that is given is actually an address that we already had for Alice as she was an Artist and had signed and written the same address on the back of one of her paintings that we still have in the family.