RESEARCH CHILD - Manchester Airport Director George Lamb

[Barbara.H]

Hi,

There is a listing in the probate register for George Lamb, died 25 May 1950.
"George Lamb of 115 Stockport Rd, Timperley, Cheshire, died 25 May 1950. Probate Manchester 6th July to Hilda Lamb, widow. Effects £4663 10s 7d."

  Barbara

[LizzieW]

Hi Barbara - his address comes under the Bucklow registration Department.  I imagine he was living in Timperley when he worked at the airport.  I looked for his marriage and there is only one around the Manchester area - bearing in mind the report of his death says he used to work for Manchester Corporation, and his wife's surname was Rawson.  I checked in case the girl was Hilda's daughter, but there are only two births prior to their marriage of Rawson, with mother's name Rawson and they were both male.

Lizzie

[Renee Othomene]

Thank you for your answers to both it's a pity which I cannot clarify this history(story), but my uncle thus died I cannot confirm this...

[chempat]

The marriage of George Lamb may have been to Hilda Rawson, but that might have been her name by a previous marriage, and the original maiden name not showing.
(However, there is one birth for a possible child of that marriage.)

If the daughter/foster daughter was a Rawson, then there should be a birth for a Rawson/Rawson in 1944/1945, and a death for the mother (as Rawson (or Lamb?)) in 1944/1945.

The death from the propeller incident may not have been reported in the newspapers as it was wartime - just for consideration.

[chempat]

If Hilda is about the same age as her husband, born about 1904.
So if it is her daughter who is the mother, born between 1920 and 1932, if that is the correct marriage.
So if she is killed in 1944 or1945 then aged between 16 and 25, so birth 1920 to 1929?
So actually aged 15 to 25 at death?

If killed at Manchester airport, then death at Bucklow?

Deaths Mar 1944
Harrison    Hilda I    25    Bucklow   
Deaths Jun 1944   
Lowe    Mary J    25    Bucklow   
Deaths Sep 1945 
Spilsbury    Marian C M    24    Bucklow   
Deaths Jun 1944   
Simpson    May    23    Bucklow   
Deaths Sep 1944 
Fearnley    Ena    21    Bucklow   
Deaths Dec 1944
Jones    Ethel L    21    Bucklow   
Deaths Dec 1945
Wilkinson    Mabel O    21    Bucklow    8a   255
Deaths Jun 1944   
Brooke    Kathleen M    19    Bucklow
Deaths Sep 1945
Harrison    Elizabeth M    19    Bucklow   
Strain    Elizabeth M    19    Bucklow   
Deaths Jun 1944
Royle    Maureen    16    Bucklow   

Have we got birth for baby at earliest the end of 1944, and death of Mother mid-1945?

So actually these deaths?
Deaths Sep 1945 
Spilsbury    Marian C M    24    Bucklow   
Deaths Dec 1945
Wilkinson    Mabel O    21    Bucklow   
Deaths Sep 1945
Harrison    Elizabeth M    19    Bucklow   
Strain    Elizabeth M    19    Bucklow

Or would the death have been registered elsewhere?

[LizzieW]

Bucklow was the registration district for both Ringway Airport as it was called at the time and Timperley where the Lamb family appear to have lived, so a death at the airport would have been registered under the Bucklow reg.district.  However, I wonder if the pregnant girl went elsewhere to have her baby which was then adopted before she came back and was apparently killed at Ringway.

I did wonder if the accident was covered up if it was during wartime, but if it was 15 September 1945 when Renee's uncle was sent away, the war was over in the UK by then.  If he never saw the baby, then we're looking for a death of the young lady sometime later than September 1945.

Lizzie

[Barbara.H]

The marriage of George Lamb may have been to Hilda Rawson, but that might have been her name by a previous marriage, and the original maiden name not showing.
(However, there is one birth for a possible child of that marriage.)

If the daughter/foster daughter was a Rawson, then there should be a birth for a Rawson/Rawson in 1944/1945, and a death for the mother (as Rawson (or Lamb?)) in 1944/1945.

There is a Rawson/Rawson birth Apr-June 1945 in Ashton, which is the same registration district as the Lamb/Rawson marriage of 1932.

It would be interesting to see George Lamb's will, in case he made provision for a grandchild or step-grandchild

  Barbara

[LizzieW]

Barbara - I think we've now come to the stumbling block, any other research is going to cost money.

Lizzie

[CaroleW]

The 1932 marriage of George Lamb & Hilda Rawson is on CheshireBMD and doesn't show any other surname for Hilda to suggest an earlier marriage.

It was at Hooley Hill, Wesleyan Methodist Church

Possible birth for Hilda in 1908

Births March qtr 1908
Hilda Rawson  Ashton    8d   546