What Happened to Ada May Preddy neé Hammond?

[ciderdrinker]

Hi
Just to add that Alf Smallwood and Ada did have a son .
Robert Smallwood was born Dec qtr 1914 Leeds
It looks like he died as a toddler.
Burial at Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery 21.3.1917 age 2.
Their records may give next of kin but it does look like the right family if as you say  Lily Violet Preddy was born at Doncaster in the August 1916.

Ciderdrinker

[julieproctor61]

Albert died in June 1923 and he was buried in Farsley Baptist Church Burial Ground in Bagley on 12th June 1923.
The following is taken from the transcription of the grave book of The Baptist Chapel at Farsley: 2. [100.00] Farsley Baptist Burial Registration 74 PREDDY Albert Farsley 1923 06 12 http://www.calverley.info/fars_bap_graves.htm - 579.9kb

Hi
The link shows that Albert is the owner of the grave, with the first burial being 12/06/23.    It's Fanny Hammond who is buried in Grave B74 see here  http://www.calverley.info/fars_rehob_bur_5.htm

[bbart]

Robert Smallwood was born Dec qtr 1914 Leeds
It looks like he died as a toddler.
Burial at Doncaster Hyde Park Cemetery 21.3.1917 age 2.

Well done!  But I have to ask, where on earth did you find his burial records!?  Great find!

Following up on JulieProctor61's super job of sorting out of who really died in 1923, could lead to a promising death of Albert PREDDY in 1931:

Deaths Mar 1931   
Preddy    Albert    49    N.Bierley    9b   66

This would give a dob as 1882, matching the Albert in the 1921 census.  It is troubling that the age and birth location in the 1921 does not match the Albert given in Lily's birth record, so there IS the possibility that this fellow is possibly a relative of the father named. Or the info was supplied by Ada, who may have believed he was much younger than he was.

Freebmd gives no other marriages in all of England post 1910 between a male Smallwood and female Hammond outside of Alf and Ada.  Which makes me wonder about this birth as being the blacked out line on Ada's 1939 listing:

Births Mar 1935
Smallwood    Anne    Hammond    Leeds South    9b   579

It would appear Ada Smallwood was buried (1943) in Harehills Cemetery, as is Alf, and his brother Albert. Birth year is a bit out, but still a good candidate.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/226720740/ada-smallwood

[bbart]

With regard to your research into Ada Smallwood neé Hammond I would be very interested to have more details. I am new to Rootschat so I don’t know if there is any facility of putting members directly in touch with each other so that we could share documents, pictures etc? Please tell me how we do it if possible.

I have no connection to the family.  In general, when you look for help on Rootschat, the people that respond are researching on the information you supply, so the more one tells us, the better the results (which you did a superb job of!).
There are times when we find things we cannot post, such as copyright images (to protect Rootschat from legal woes).  In that case, you would use the private message system to exchange email addresses (which absolutely cannot be posted in public here). 
To send a private message, when viewing a reply, look on the left for the author, and below their info are two icons. One is a little person, showing in green when the user is online. The other looks like a sheet of notepaper.  The latter is the link that will open up a screen to send a private message to that user.

On a side note, if you are not getting emails when someone replies, go into account settings and toggle that feature on.  Many MANY times, people come along weeks or months later with information, and people miss out on getting important information because they stopped checking their threads.

Earlier you mentioned the demise of James Hammond in 1909.  I did find a long article on his funeral which names a lot of relatives.  If you do not have it, and wanted it, send me a private message with an email address, so that I can pass it on to you. (Also, you get to practice the PM system!)

Hope that helps!