You'll need to check his marriage certificate to see what details he gave. Was he married in N.Y.? if so there are spaces on the form for parents' names, etc. which should help finding them in English records.
There might be useful information in naturalization records- such as date & place entered U.S. (as well as name of ship), etc. This would hopefully allow us to find a passenger manifest which will (again hopefully) show details of nearest relative in U.K., contact in U.S., etc.
Exactly what information do you have so far (facts, documents, etc. not information that you've found on someone else's family tree, online, etc.)?
I spoke with my 93 year old Grandfather in an effort to help provide more information on Alfred who was his father-in-law. He confirmed that Alfred did not provide an accurate age for military records because he wanted to enlist and serve. He may have been younger than 18 when he arrived in the United States. The required age is 18 in order to enlist. I have evidence to prove this via US military records. It lists his birthday as November 13, 1885?
My Grandfather also informed me he served in the Royal Navy - dates I am unaware of. I did not locate a death certificate and Alfred and Bella's marriage license does not have any information regarding names of his parents.
Birth date November 13th is factual.
His date of death is January 26th, 1977. On his grave it lists DOB as 1888.
He married Bella Dickman on October 29th, 1919 at Saint Valentine's Williamsbridge, Bronx, New York
I am attaching a photograph of him and his wife Bella. Not sure if this helps.
Also including a copy of some documents.
I am going to make an assumption that he may have left home suddenly to migrate to the states for reasons which are not clear. I do believe he had sisters & brothers because my Grandmother did mention there was family in England. Although, contact with this family in the UK was never discussed.
As you can imagine, I am curious if any relatives still remain which are connected to Alfred.
I also pulled this, but the date on the manifest states Dec 1923?
