Tetsworth War Memorial - Griffin and Wilkins

[Skoyen89]

I am researching the men and women commemorated on the Tetsworth War memorial.  There are two I cannot find anything about and have tried ancestry, cwgc etc.  I have also looked in the census for 1901 and 1911 ad the parish records from OFHS.
They are:
GRIFFIN J - from WWI
WILKINS GE - from WWII

Can anyone help me identify these two individuals?

[CaroleW]

Welcome to Rootschat

Tetsworth came under the Thame Registration District until 1932 but that makes an assumption these men were actually born in Tetsworth.  They could have been born elsewhere but lived or married in Tetsworth at the time of the respective wars

There is no J Griffin birth in Thame without a middle name from 1885- in fact only one entry James Welford Griffin born 1889

No entry for a G E Wilkins

www.freebmd.org.uk

EDIT

In Oxfordshire generally - there are birth entries for James/John/Jesse/Joseph/Jack Griffin

There is a birth in 1906 for a George Edmund Wilkins and another in 1913 for a George E J Wilkins

[Skoyen89]

Thanks Carole. 

I have a Gladys Edith Wilkins born Dec 1990 in Iffley and died 24th July 1943 in Chipping Norton area.  She was the daughter of Harry James Wilkins 1876-1958 and Edith Emma Hill 1871 - 1945.  She is buried in St Giles at Tetsworth but does not have a CWGC gravestone, and was 'of Manor Farm, Tetsworth' on the Burial Register.  She is the only Wilkins with initials 'GE' (or variations) I can find.  However I cannot find any link to the military which would lead to her being on the War Memorial. 

A clue is that on the memorial it has GE Wilkins first and then is alphabetical.....I wonder if it signifies that GE Wilkins is a female as the rest are men?

Thanks for the suggestions on names....I will look them up to see what I find. 

[Skoyen89]

Sorry I meant born 1900 not 1990!!

[CaroleW]

Hi

If it could be female - there is also the possibility that Wilkins was her married name.  I only looked at male entries. 

 

[Skoyen89]

Have ordered her death cert to see if that helps at all!

[Skoyen89]

Well the Death Cert has arrived from the GRO.  It seems Gladys Edith Wilkins was a 'spinster of no occupation' and was staying with JE White of 1 Kensington, Within, Woodstock.  So looks unlikely to have been her.