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Re: My Grandfather the elusive Charles Duff
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 15 June 21 08:55 BST (UK) »
Could Charles have been a Charlie?

DUFF, CHARLIE       DELACO 
GRO Reference: 1908  J Quarter in WEST DERBY  Volume 08B  Page 356

I haven't checked him out elsewhere yet.
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Re: My Grandfather the elusive Charles Duff
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 15 June 21 08:56 BST (UK) »
‘So I'm looking for a Charles Duff, married to a lady named Jean? ‘

Gideon and Emily Duff had a daughter Jean, born 1920 - sister to Charles G.
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Re: My Grandfather the elusive Charles Duff
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 15 June 21 09:01 BST (UK) »
Ah, so perhaps that information about Jean was picked up as being his wife rather than his sister.

So could the Charles G marrying Violet Howes be the correct one?
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England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
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Re: My Grandfather the elusive Charles Duff
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 15 June 21 09:03 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Girl Guide on Tuesday 15 June 21 08:55 BST (UK)
Could Charles have been a Charlie?

DUFF, CHARLIE       DELACO 
GRO Reference: 1908  J Quarter in WEST DERBY  Volume 08B  Page 356

I haven't checked him out elsewhere yet.

I live in West Derby registration area - let me have a look  :)

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Parents were Charles Duff and Christine Delaco ( father Charles Delaco )who married in Liverpool 8th september 1907
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Re: My Grandfather the elusive Charles Duff
« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 15 June 21 09:05 BST (UK) »
A baker's roundsman may well have had the opportunity to double as bookie's runner during the working day :P

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Re: My Grandfather the elusive Charles Duff
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 15 June 21 09:09 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Girl Guide on Tuesday 15 June 21 09:01 BST (UK)
Ah, so perhaps that information about Jean was picked up as being his wife rather than his sister.

So could the Charles G marrying Violet Howes be the correct one?

It’s possible. Jean did not marry until later and as a much younger sibling was a similar age to Carl’s grandmother.
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Re: My Grandfather the elusive Charles Duff
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 15 June 21 09:10 BST (UK) »
Quote from: sparrett on Tuesday 15 June 21 09:05 BST (UK)
A baker's roundsman may well have had the opportunity to double as bookie's runner during the working day :P

Sue

Right initials  :)
I think a bookie’s runner was illegal so that might be just knowledge to those people - not mentioned in court perhaps.
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Re: My Grandfather the elusive Charles Duff
« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 15 June 21 09:34 BST (UK) »
Given Charles George Duff's age of 36 by May 1940 (assuming 1904 Birth Year) is it feasible He would have been with the BEF, on the Front Line, in France by that time, and later evacuated from Dunkirk ?

ADD: The BEF started moving to France from the 4th September 1939, hence why most Regular Army and Territorials do not appear on the published to view, 1939 Register.
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Re: My Grandfather the elusive Charles Duff
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 15 June 21 09:45 BST (UK) »
I don't know what a BEF is ;D
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