Gaskin Tiptree

[Gaskinhunt]

I’ve just joined this site as I’m researching my family background. You can imagine my shock when I saw this post ! My gran was a Romany, her mother was a gaskin and her father a fletcher. I’m if the understanding the Fletchers were from the Birmingham area whilst the Gaskins were from Suffolk. I’ve a great great uncle called Alfred Gaskin who was from Sudbury and was enlisted into the army in Byker showground in WW1 and was killed just outside Ypres in 1917. I visit his grave every year.
Where it gets interesting is that my gran married into the Hunt family and settled in Gateshead where I am from. I now live in Tiptree and appear to have unwittingly retraced my family footsteps South.
If anyone has any further information regarding the Gaskins in this area I’d love to hear from you. Jason

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Alfreds Commonwealth Wargrave is easy to find

Private
GASKIN, A
Service Number 227344
Died 26/08/1917
138th Coy.
Labour Corps
Buried at KLEIN-VIERSTRAAT BRITISH CEMETERY
Location: West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

A little short on parents names unfortunately

Added, he was awarded the Victory Medal and the British Medal. Medal card can be previewed here: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D2304590

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This could be worth following up

"A sad fatality has just been reported by the Eastern Police, Glasgow, the victim being Alfred Gaskin, the two-year-old son of Alfred Gaskin, horse dealer, Vinegar Hill Showground"
27 December 1913, Dundee Courier, Scotland.

Vinegar Hill in Glasgow hosted a regular show, if your Alfred Gaskin was a horse dealer at the Byker showground this could be the death of his son? The death record is very easy to find on Scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Death
GASKIN, ALFRED
2
1913
644/2 697
Camlachie

This could be the child's GRO birth registration in England
GASKIN, ALFRED     
SMITH 
GRO Reference: 1910  J Quarter in WANDSWORTH  Volume 01D  Page 664







 

[Gaskinhunt]

Hi
Thank you very much for the information re Glasgow. I can confirm they are my family members. The loss of his young son is new information and truly shocking. Even more so when his young daughter died very young and he was then tragically killed in ww1.
My daughter’s middle name is Leonorah after my gran’s name and she was in turn named after Alfred’s wife.
My aunt remembers meeting Leonorah her aunt as a child in Gateshead.
Bearing in mind their Sudbury connection, I’d be really interested to learn of their connections to Tiptree area if there is any.
I’m not sure about the London connection you have mentioned. I’ve arranged to speak with a relative in Newcastle to see if she is able to shed anymore light on the Gaskin side if the family.
I really appreciate all the help I’ve had. Very kind indeed and enlightening to say the least. More so as I visit Alfred’s grace every year in Belgium. 

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This could be Alfred Gaskin that died in the accidents birth registration in Scotland

GASKIN
ALFRED
M
1911
644/2 1265
Camlachie

Unfortunately you would need to buy the record off Scotlandspeople.govt.uk to get the mothers name

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Is this the daughter that died young?

(Birth)
GASKIN
JUANITA HAMAR
F
1915
644/2 381
Camlachie

Unfortunately you would need to buy the record off Scotlandspeople.govt.uk to get the mothers name

[Gaskinhunt]

Hi, yes this is their daughter. Tragic. Not unique I’m sure.

His wife married Alfie’s brother Mark when he was killed in the war.

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Do you know where Mark Gaskin died because his death records might contain his parents names?
Did he die in England? Near Gateshead?

I can see Leonora Hamar's marriage in 1908 in Camlachie to Alfred on Scotlandspeople.govt.uk

I can also see her marriage to Mark Gaskin in 1919 in Leith South (Edinburgh?) Scotlandspeople.govt.uk

Both marriages would contain witnesses, because they took place in Scotland buying records seems to be the only straight forward way.