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Re: Benjamin Frederick Danks
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 20 February 21 10:46 GMT (UK) »


Sister Dora Phyllis Danks - 1903 -

a death registered June 1923  :'(

DANKS    Dora P    20    Newport M.    11a   189

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Re: Benjamin Frederick Danks
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 20 February 21 10:52 GMT (UK) »


brother Ernest Leslie Danks - 1905

Couldn't see a marriage - only a death record

Ernest Leslie Danks - 6 Feb 1905 - February 1986 (aged 81 years)
Registration District Newport
Volume 28 Page 695

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Re: Benjamin Frederick Danks
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 20 February 21 10:56 GMT (UK) »

sister Gwenllian I Danks - marriage March 1942

Danks    Gwenllian I    Sadler    Caerleon    11a   649
Sadler    Albert E    Danks    Caerleon   

Death - Gwenllian Isobel Sadler - 13 January 1913 - March 1993  (aged 80 years)
Registration District Newport
Register Number B28C - District and Subdistrict 8362B - Entry Number 43

Could be a daughter born in 1955 - Birmingham with a Danks - Sadler connection.

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Re: Benjamin Frederick Danks
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 20 February 21 10:59 GMT (UK) »
Brother Clifford Danks - 1914 - 1944

FIND A GRAVEENTRY

Trpr Clifford Danks

Bayeux Memorial
Bayeux, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
PLOT   Final resting place unknown. Name listed on the Bayeux Memorial at Panel 8, Column 1.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56274145/clifford-danks

http://www.fallenheroesofnormandy.org/Servicemen/Detail/24622

http://www.caerleon.net/history/records/memorial/index.html

Sadly did not marry - so no progress with the Danks line

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Re: Benjamin Frederick Danks
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 20 February 21 11:01 GMT (UK) »

sister - Lorna Octavia Danks 1910 Oct-Nov-Dec Newport Monmouthshire
Volume 11a - Page 215

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Re: Benjamin Frederick Danks
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 20 February 21 11:03 GMT (UK) »

Father Henry Danks - Henry B Danks 1870 - 1950 (aged 80 years)
Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun Caerleon Monmouthshire
Volume 8c Page 134

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Re: Benjamin Frederick Danks
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 20 February 21 11:06 GMT (UK) »

Mother Elizabeth Holland/Danks

Elizabeth Danks 1875 - 1964 (aged 89 years)
Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun Newport Gwent
Volume 8c Page 147

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Re: Benjamin Frederick Danks
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 20 February 21 11:11 GMT (UK) »
DANKS, CLIFFORD - Trooper 3912603 - 23rd Hussars Royal Armoured Corps - died 6th August 1944 -
age 29 - son of Henry Benjamin and Elizabeth Danks of Caerleon - commemorated on the Bayeux
Memorial, Calvados, France - memorial reference:- Panel 8 Column 1 also commemorated on the
Christchurch Memorial, Christchurch Hill, Newport also commemorated in the Memorial List, Reference
Library, John Frost Square, Newport also commemorated on the Memorial Lamp, Memorial Gardens, High
Street, Caerleon also commemorated on the St. Cadoc’s Church Memorial, Museum Street, Caerleon also
commemorated on the Church of the Holy Spirit Memorial, Bullmoor Road, Caerleon

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Re: Benjamin Frederick Danks
« Reply #17 on: Monday 09 August 21 04:30 BST (UK) »
I have just come across this - I may be able to add some information, my grandmother was Elizabeth Maud Danks (married Frederick Coker). Please message me if still ongoing.