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Re: John Hodgson and wife Agnes
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 15 April 18 15:16 BST (UK) »
In the UK you can use whatever names you like (even now) unless it is for fraudulent purposes.
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Re: John Hodgson and wife Agnes
« Reply #19 on: Monday 16 April 18 12:23 BST (UK) »
Wow, I did not know that.  Thank you.

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Re: John Hodgson and wife Agnes
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 04 August 18 14:49 BST (UK) »
Hi, please you inform me when exactly John William Hodgson left the army. Do you call it demobbed?  Alison Di he serve in Verdun, France during WW1?  His MIC was T4/244484 A/S/Sjt.
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Re: John Hodgson and wife Agnes
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 05 August 18 07:47 BST (UK) »
He was in the Army Service Corp/ Norfolk and Suffolk Territorials
26 January 1915- 6 August 1918 he was at home
7 August 1918-25 March 1919 France
26 March 1919-23 April 1919 he was at home.

Officially his last day was 23 April 1919
No mention of Verdun
He signed up as John Fendley Hodgson.


Among the papers is his marriage date 13 July 1908

children
Arthur John born 19 September 1908 Kings Lynn
Thomas Walter  born 26 October 1911 Wisbeach
Gertrude Elizabeth
Beatrice Mary

The ink has faded re birth dates for the girls.


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Re: John Hodgson and wife Agnes
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 05 August 18 14:43 BST (UK) »
Thank you for your help.

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Re: John Hodgson and wife Agnes
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 05 August 18 15:20 BST (UK) »
It is hard to know if John Hodgson was John William Fendleys Father or not as he was born a few years before the Marriage of John to Isabella.

Illegitimate children often used their birth surname or Mothers new Husbands surname in records.
They often switched between them as John William did.
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Cummins, Miskelly(IRELAND + NZ) ,Leggett (SFK + NFK ENGLAND + NZ),Purdy ( NBL ENGLAND + NZ ), Shaw YKS, LANCs + NZ), Holdsworth(LINCS +LANCS + NZ), Moloney, Dean, Fitzpatrick, ( County Down,IRE) Newby(NBL.ENG, Costello(IRE), Ivers, Murray(IRE),Reay(NBL.ENG) Reid (BERW.SCOTLAND)

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Re: John Hodgson and wife Agnes
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 05 August 18 16:11 BST (UK) »
If you dont know Isabellas Parents names they were William and Jane Fendley, Mother was Jane Ann Walker and their Marriage is reg FreeBMD 1858.

ISABELLA Fendley Bapt 15 Jun 1862 Watlington to WILLIAM/JANE
(FreeREG)

GRO Birth Reg;
FENDLY, ISABELLA, Mothers mn WALKER***
GRO Reference: 1861  J Quarter in DOWNHAM UNION  Volume 04B  Page 369


JANE ANN Walker was Bapt 19 Sep 1833, St Margaret, Kings Lynn to HENRY/JANE
Fathers occp Shoemaker
Abode Broad Street Lynn

They are in Gaywood in 1841;
Henry Walker   30 Shoemaker
Jane Walker   35
Sarah Walker   10
Frances Walker   8
JANE Walker   7*******
Henry Walker   5
William Walker   3

1851 in Kings Lynn;
Henry Walker   42 Shoemaker
Jane Walker   48
Henry C Walker   13
Mary Walker   9
Elizabeth Walker 6

1851 Jane is living away from home as a Servant.

GRO Birth Regs;
WALKER, MARY, Mothers mn SMITH****
GRO Reference: 1841  D Quarter in FREEBRIDGE LYNN UNION  Volume 13  Page 129
WALKER, ELIZABETH, Mothers mn SMITH ***
GRO Reference: 1845  M Quarter in FREEBRIDGE LYNN UNION  Volume 13  Page 143

Which leads to;

Marriage Date:   7 Aug 1828
Marriage Place:   King´s Lynn, St Margaret with St Nicholas, Norfolk
Henry WALKER to Jane SMITH
(Anc.. also on FreeREG but has Ajne Smith (must have been hard to read)
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Cummins, Miskelly(IRELAND + NZ) ,Leggett (SFK + NFK ENGLAND + NZ),Purdy ( NBL ENGLAND + NZ ), Shaw YKS, LANCs + NZ), Holdsworth(LINCS +LANCS + NZ), Moloney, Dean, Fitzpatrick, ( County Down,IRE) Newby(NBL.ENG, Costello(IRE), Ivers, Murray(IRE),Reay(NBL.ENG) Reid (BERW.SCOTLAND)