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  This is quite irrelevant to your original query, but I am fairly sure that Arthur's wife ran the village playgroup attended by my children and generations of others in the area!

[CassieP]

Hi Andy

Yes I can answer how Charles William Webb came to be born in Hampstead.  The London electoral register has Myrtle Ethel Webb and Arthur Charles Webb living at 4 Downing Court, Grenville Street, WC1 from 1949 - 1953.

I came across that "unreliable" Webb family tree on Ancestry and got in touch with the owner when I first started researching Arthur.  He was unable to help.

Carole

[CassieP]

  This is quite irrelevant to your original query, but I am fairly sure that Arthur's wife ran the village playgroup attended by my children and generations of others in the area!

Thanks! 

[CassieP]

"And lastly for this update, I am wondering if he was in the Preston area in 1941 where he met and married Myrtle. According to the timeline I linked to earlier 11 RHA were in the Surrey/Berkshire area in 1941, so perhaps he was still with 58th LAA Regt at the time he married. Does his marriage certificate give a unit and or address for him? A plausible explanation may be that Myrtle was working away from home, near where he was stationed and they just returned to her parents home for the wedding. Her occupation in September 1939 was professional dancer (travel) so maybe she had joined
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Hi Andy

I'm sorry I missed answering your question about Arthur's marriage (so much information to go through!).  For some strange reason the system is not allowing me to send the death and marriage certificates even though they are Jpeg.  Here is a "snip" from the marriage certificate.

Carole

[Andy J2022]

Thanks Carole.

The Normanshire Drive address in Chingford seems to be a deadend. I thought it might be where his parents were living at the time, but based on the 1939 Register, there was no Webb family there in 1939. However there about 20 houses which come up with no occupant recorded. In fact it looks like Arthur's father Joseph Webb, master tailor, may have  been living in Fulham at the time.

I note that Ethel is being a little economical with the truth over her age, considering that she was born 6 Oct 1913.

[CassieP]

I note that Ethel is being a little economical with the truth over her age, considering that she was born 6 Oct 1913.

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