Hi.
As Keyboard d86 asks, yes Amelia was my mother She died in 2013 aged almost 103 years.
She never knew her father. (Henry Johns) I have spent the last two years trying to find him but cannot.
On the 1911 census Henry Johns is living in Aldershot with Ellen Johns who he states is his wife.
Henry says he comes from Soho London, is a bootmaker and is 50 years old. Henry did not marry Ellen but had two children, Amelia 1911 and Doris 1913 but Doris died in 1914. In 1918 Ellen and Henry are apart and Ellen goes back to her former name Weedon and marries a George Sutherland.
No idea what happens to Henry.
In 1901 henry was in Aldershot and working as a bootmaker for Ellens stepfather. He states in the 1901 census that he is single, 50 years old (again) and from Soho, London. This is how Ellen met him whilst still being married to her former husband Charles Weedon.
The details above are all I have ever been able to find out about Henry.
One possible lead was that he was married to Jane in 1891 and lived in Frith Street, Soho. They had a son Henry (jr) Henry (Snr) on the 1891 census states he came from the Channel Islands (Alderney). but I thought it was a possability that he may have left Jane and gone to Aldershot stating there that he was born in Soho This theory is now very thin.
I have also considered that as Henry was in Aldershot he may have had a military background but again this proved fruitless.
As you can work out Henry was my grandfather. It would have been nice to have found his roots.
Yes I have asked about this man before.
Dud.
