John Edgar Hetherington

[slang]

looking for relatives of john edgar hetherington
birth Sept 20, 1888, London England

next of kin was father, friend hetherington of 11 thyra road, north finchley, london

he was son of friend joseph and ada caroline hetherington of 4 buckingham ave, whetstone, london

husband of viiolet t. scott (formerly hetherington)

he was killed in action on july 22, 1916

[CaroleW]

How tragic - he must have been killed within weeks of them marrying.  No children listed on freebmd

Marriages September qtr 1916   
 
John E Hetherington      Elham  2a 2465   
Violet T Rawlings     

[nanny jan]

Hi,

His record on the CWGC site show him to be Canadian, serving in the Canadian Machine Gun Corps.

Perhaps a search in Canadian records might yield some information.   



Nanny Jan

[slang]

thank you both for your help.  i check in the canadian records but have not found anything yet.

do anyone happen to know if john had any siblings and if they had children and grandchildren that i could contact.

thanks

[Valda]

Hi

The database for Canadian soldiers who served in the First World War is here

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-100.01-e.php

John Edgar is on it. Canadian soldiers' records are very detailed. The online record will only show the first and last pages of his records only.

His widow remarried in 1924 in Marylebone registration district.

1901 census RG13 1235 folio 141
5 Stanford Villas Friern Barnet Middlesex
Friend Jos Hetherington 38 Head Married Managing Director of ? Ashford Kent
Ada C Hetherington 42 Wife Married Launceston Cornwall
Edward F Hetherington 14 Son London
John E Hetherington 12 Son London
Ada F Hetherington 11 Daughter London
George Hetherington 8 Son London
Edith K Hetherington 4 Daughter London
plus 1 servant

You can continue to track the family through the 1911 census

http://www.1911census.co.uk/

For copyright reasons you cannot ask for a look up from this census on Rootschat - you must search yourself.

You will be able to find the siblings birth registrations on FreeBMD

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

FreeBMD coverage charts are here so you can see just how far on the civil registration index has been transcribed

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/progress.shtml

to help track the siblings marriages, possible children and their parents's deaths into the 1930s

Friend' death registration is on FreeBMD

Deaths Dec 1935  Hetherington  Friend J  72  Barnet  3a 623

Since the family were of some social standing it would be worth seeing whether Friend left a will and what details that gives of his surviving family members.

http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/1176.htm


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So checking websites like GenesReunited to see whether anyone else is researching this family might help find contacts of living descendants.


Regards

Valda
co-moderator London and Middlesex board

[dawnsh]

From the Probate Calendar for 1935

Hetherington Friend Joseph of 4 Buckingham Avenue
Whetstone Middx died 22 Oct 1935 Probate London
16 Dec to Ada Caroline Hetherington Widow
Effects £10521 7s 2d

Hope this helps

Dawn

[Benrinnes]

http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/e/e044/e001079055.jpg

The above link is a copy of the war diary of the 5th Canadian Infantry Battalion and mentions the death of John Edgar Hetherington.

[dawnsh]

Hi Benrinnes

Welcome to Rootschat 

Slang who started this topic hasn't been online here since 2009 but should receive an email notification that you have posted and hopefully come back soon.

Dawn