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World War One / Re: Help with identifying WW1 soldier's parents:
« on: Wednesday 16 March 16 00:59 GMT (UK) »
Florence M Campanelle nee Ball is a bit of a mystery. She is NOT a close relative of Edward Broome or it would say so on the Register of Effects i.e. Aunt: Sole Leg: Sis: Sole Leg: etc., it doesn't it just gives her name so she is not a relation. That makes her some kind of friend that he has left everything to.
She was born in Dudley, Staffordshire in abt 1887 and at some point she and her sister Lizzie Ball have been adopted by William and Anne Shaw. She was married as Mean_genie says in 1908 to Giovanni Campanelle in Salford. Her adoptive mother ran her own restaurant and her Italian husband who appears to be 20 years her senior ran his own coffee bar.
By 1914 she is 27 years old with five children and goes on to have a sixth child (also Florence M) in 1917. There is a death shown for a John Campanelle in 1917 in Salford but his age is shown as 38 where Florence's husband is shown as being 43 in 1911. But this could be him as ages were often changed or put down incorrectly.
She and Edward probably lived within a mile of each other at some point and it is credible to believe that they could have met either in the coffee bar or the restaurant. By 1917 there is a possibility that she is a young widow age 30 with 6 children one of them newly born. Maybe they met and Edward took a shine to her or felt sorry for her plight and changed his will to leave everything to her should the worst happen to him.
But the fact is I have not been able to find any proof of a link between Edward and Florence and so why he should leave his legacy to her and not any of his brothers and sisters I don't really know.
Martin
She was born in Dudley, Staffordshire in abt 1887 and at some point she and her sister Lizzie Ball have been adopted by William and Anne Shaw. She was married as Mean_genie says in 1908 to Giovanni Campanelle in Salford. Her adoptive mother ran her own restaurant and her Italian husband who appears to be 20 years her senior ran his own coffee bar.
By 1914 she is 27 years old with five children and goes on to have a sixth child (also Florence M) in 1917. There is a death shown for a John Campanelle in 1917 in Salford but his age is shown as 38 where Florence's husband is shown as being 43 in 1911. But this could be him as ages were often changed or put down incorrectly.
She and Edward probably lived within a mile of each other at some point and it is credible to believe that they could have met either in the coffee bar or the restaurant. By 1917 there is a possibility that she is a young widow age 30 with 6 children one of them newly born. Maybe they met and Edward took a shine to her or felt sorry for her plight and changed his will to leave everything to her should the worst happen to him.
But the fact is I have not been able to find any proof of a link between Edward and Florence and so why he should leave his legacy to her and not any of his brothers and sisters I don't really know.
Martin