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Topic: Anyone fancy a challenge? Herbert Lake (Read 664 times)
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alligator18
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Quote from: mosiefish on Today at 19:53:27
Hi,
Spent a while looking for him on your other thread. Was there no address listed on the Naval Records when he joined up? Or is that a dead end too.
Mo
Hi Mo
Thanks for taking a look. Unfortunately there was no address .
I decided to take a look at Herbert's father - Claud, and find any Lake's on the 1901 census who had an occupation related to the dairy industry, as apparently he set up his own dairy business. I managed to find a Charles Lake who I think may be his father. The marriage certificate I ordered for Herbert and Louisa was directly from Wandsworth council where they are hand written. It made me think that maybe the person misread the fathers name as Claud, when it was actually Charles. Today I ordered the certificate directly from the GRO - so hopefully that will show a bit of a scribble that could be read as Charles!
Anyway I found a Charles Lake, b 1845 NK London living with his mother whom I'm assuming remarried as her name is Sarah Marsh. Charles occupation is listed as a Dairy Foreman, so I feel quietly confident it could be right.
Only found this out today so having a play around now with the records to try and confirm things 
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Lambourn, Lake, White, Osborne, Pottinger, Cuthbert, Lover, Feaks, Hitch, Dance, Stacey, Jones, Pitt, Neale
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mosiefish
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Hi,
By the way, I took a look for 61 Trinity Road in the 1918 London Post Office Directory. There isn`t a number 61 listed  It has number 59 with a James Uglow and then underneath says "here is Glenburnie Rd" followed by number 77 with a John William Paul, bootmaker. ( Both good Devon/Cornwall names  )
Good luck with the certificate.
Mo
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alligator18
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Here are a few more bits of information about Herbert Lake from a letter by my Grandad's sister (Herbert's daughter).
If anyone can find any leads from this please let me know . I just thought he had a very eventful life and people may find the following just interesting to read!
The old man took charge of his own life and after a series of local jobs he finally ended up working at the old Palladium Theatre - here, a troupe of acrobats became interested in him, because as a result of rickets he was able to contort his body into any position, and they wanted him to be in the act! - he declined!!
Somehow, he seems to have persuaded the Navy to take him on - abandoned ship in Australia and worked his passage back home! Then came the Great War in 1914 - he joined up and fought on the Somme, - he could describe this War with great accuracy, and spoke bitterly of having to use dead bodies, almost as sandbags, and also the carnage that took place amongst the infantry - I've seen tears in his eyes when he spoke of the horrors they went through! Somehow, he was transferred to the armoured corps and it was in the service that he caught a blighty one, - a shell exploded the tank he was in and his mate, beside him, (in Dads words) became just an amount of charred ash, - shrapnel pierced Dad's head and as you may remember the calves of his legs were partly destroyed and his War service was ended! He was taken back to Blighty and his head injuries were assessed - the shrapnel was too close to his brain to be removed and he was advised never to drink alcohol again, (advice, which of course, he blithely ignored!).
There is much more in her letter, but I don't want to go on.
Does anyone else have a soft spot for a particular ancestor? I've really warmed to Herbert and I'm so desperate to trace his family back further.
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