Can It Get Any Weirder

[jonwarrn]

7 Fishermore Road.

Sadly, when George Brown of Fishermore Road was driving his bus one day in 1940 he mistook an elderly woman for a white cat.
He slammed on his breaks, but it wasn't enough

[jonwarrn]

Manchester Evening News, 3 March 1950
Birthday Memories
One from George Brown and family (attached)
Here it says 7 Fishermore Avenue

[NorthernGeezer]

Lizzie,
#Reply 39, Ancestry automatically inserted a James Ward from Ireland and an Eileen Margaret Ward but with no corroborating evidence, it looked wrong due the the fact she was the only child of 12 born there and it gave a death date for James as 1942 when Eileen's marriage certificate in 1932 shows him as deceased, so I dismissed it straight away.
#Reply 44, it seems the death date in 1930 for James is probably right, it certainly fits with Eileen's marriage certificate.
# Reply 39 & Rosie #Reply 40, thanks for the advice, i'll do just that.
# Reply 42, I'm happy with EVERYTHING you have unearthed here 
# Reply 44, I'll search for service records of James and order up his death certificate from GRO.
# Reply 45, WOW JONW..............Right of the blue!!!
I spoke to an aunt when I read this and she had never heard this story, its a big shock 
Weirdly, there's a family story that George, who was 27 at the outbreak of WW2, was a fireman at Shell Chemicals in Carrington during the conflict and was therefore in a reserved occupation, why was he still driving buses in 1940??
# Reply 46, That'll be for his mother Ada Mary Brown who was born 31st March 1884.
So, a lot to work on and I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this, as you all probably know without this kind of help, some of us would really struggle 

[NorthernGeezer]

Now you have James age, place of birth and occupation, he is easily found in 1921.

Not so easy it seems, I've inputted his data in to FindMyPast and got no results, I've tried the same with Cecilia/Cecila, again no results, I've tried the same with Eileen  and bingo, got the family but no James.
Cecilia is listed as head and married and the 3 girls are there, the first child, Cecilia born in 1911 is not there, presumably died, so, where is James??

[NorthernGeezer]

Just spotted something, Eileen is listed as being born in Northern Island, not Tynemouth 

[NorthernGeezer]

Island?.................IRELAND 

[NorthernGeezer]

Also, whilst the census lists there place of birth, it is not clear from the document where the census itself actually took place, no address, no town, nothing to identify where it is.

[NorthernGeezer]

Ah, got it, there's a page 2, its Workington 

[NorthernGeezer]

GOT HIM!!!!!............well kind of, he's in Carlisle on a census with 25 other blokes, its page 2 of the census and page one isn't included for some reason.
Job descriptions range from joiners, gardeners, masons, he's the only one with a medical profession, a hospital maybe??
I'm assuming he's not estranged from Cecilia, its 30 miles away so he could either be commuting daily or staying over in the week.