Walter Franks born Q1 1871 York

[Cockneyrebel]

Walter married Mary Margaret Bellerby (1877-1940) 13 Feb 1897 at Fulford, they had 3 children: Harriet Susan Gertrude born Q1 1898, John Henry born Q1 1899 and Arthur Thomas born 4 May 1900 all in York. The family excluding John Henry appeared on the 1901 Census, but on the 1911 Mary and all 3 children appeared but without Walter. At 1921 Mary M was living as married with a lodger in either Hull or York but at 1939 she was recorded as a widow living with her son, Arthur in Flaxton.
Trees on Ancestry suggest that Walter went to the USA and lived and died in Pennsylvania in 1931 having married again?
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[CaroleW]

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145096163/walter-franks

Different person if you check children births

[*Sandra*]

Does the birth date agree ?

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Walter Franks

29 Dec 1871 England
Death 14 Apr 1931 (aged 59)
Heidelberg, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Burial Chartiers Cemetery
Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/145096163/walter-franks

Sandra

Added

Marriage 1893

Walter Franks - 29 December 1870 England - aged 22 years.
Marriage Date   13 Apr 1893
Marriage Place   Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Spouse   Mary A. Black
Certificate Number   13277

Walter Franks - 29 Dec 1871 England - 14 April 1931
Death Age   59
Birth Date   29 Dec 1871
Death Place   Heidelberg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Father    John Franks
Mother    Elizabeth Summerscale
Spouse    Mary A Black
Certificate Number   38570

[*Sandra*]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Thu, 16 Apr 1931
Page 26

https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette/185796116/

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

IF the father of Walter was John Franks............ John Franks passed in 1907

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
Tue, 8 Jan 1907
Page 6

https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette/185796185/

Elizabeth Summerscales - 1849 - 1868  (aged 19 yeatrs)
Marriage Date   25 Jan 1868
Marriage Place   Halifax, St John the Baptist, Yorkshire
Halifax, St John the Baptist
Father   George Summerscales Spouse   John Franks

John Franks arrived in Philadelphia in 1881 -

[*Sandra*]

Could he have a sister Emily Franks -

Marriage -

Emily Franks - Marriage Date   21 Oct 1891
Marriage Place   Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Spouse    George R. Hilton.

The Pittsburgh Press
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Wed, 9 Dec 1953
Page 54

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press/185796278/

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Emily Franks Hilton - 12 January 1873 - West Yorkshire.

Chartiers Cemetery
Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Plot G

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28025253/emily-hilton

Sandra

[ShaunJ]

The one in Pennsylvania married Mary A Black in 1893. AT that time he was a miner.

The online tree has a crossed wire. It's not the electrical engineer from York.

[jonwarrn]

John Henry born Q1 1899

JH's date of birth was 10 January 1899
Walter a journeyman gas fitter
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSDP-WSWW-F

[jonwarrn]

Harriet Susan Gertrude born Q1 1898

Possibly an admission record for her in 1907 at St Cuthbert's School, York
Born 1897, from free keyword search probably born in December, parent/guardian Walter