Samuel MEEK born Somerset Taunton 1892

[avidt]

Hi

Can anyone help me trace this man and his parents I believe they moved to Bristol by 1911 where he married in 1914.

Many thanks

David

[groom]

Hi David
If that's correct, there is a tree on Ancestry that has his marriage certificate to Alice Rowe. That says his father was John Meek a railway employee.

[rosie99]

The GRO birth index has Samuels mothers mmn Cleverley
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp

[rosie99]

John looks good as his father 
Marriages Jun 1880 
CLEVERLY    Frances Ellen       
Meek    John       
Taunton    5c   493

[groom]

1901  RG13; Piece: 2276; Folio: 181; Page: 2


John Meck   49   SW railway Porter     Stapleton, Gloucestershire
Ellen Meck 46                                  Heddington, Wiltshire
Kate Meck   17                                  Highbridge, Somerset
Annie Meck   13                          Bridgewater, Somerset
Maggie Meck   10                          Bridgewater, Somerset
Samuel Meck   9                            Taunton, Somerset
John Meck   6                                    Taunton, Somerset

[avidt]

Hi Groom and Rosie

Thanks so much for that very valuable information. I just need now to get confirmation now that the family or specifically Samuel mover to Bristol by 1911. Sadly their eldest child Hilda was murdered in 1935 aged 19 and Samuel died 3 years later at the age of 46.

Kind Regards

David

[groom]

No, the family was still in Taunton for that census but Samuel wasn't with them!

[Skoosh]

Gloucs sounds about right for the tribe of Meek's, miners, from the Forest of Dean?

Skoosh.

[avidt]

Hi Skoosh

According to the 1911 census John was born in 1848/9 in Stapleton Glos. the  Freebmd site shows a John Meek born 1852 son of Richard Meek & Hannah  Harrison who married in 1848. The 1851 Census shows Richard born c1824 in EastnDean. Any ideas where I can look beyond that please.

Many thanks

David