Thank you.
Putting the part jigsaw together again:
o Gerald Pickard
o I have: Gerald Pickard married Irene Lissenburg, born 1886, in St Thomas’ Cathedral, Bombay on 16th June 1906. Gerald was 29, an assistant with Asquith and Lord while his father was William Pickard.
o Googling “Asquith and Lord” gave me just one oblique result mentioning clothes and inventory so the company will probably be an import/export one.
o Esme Pickard
o The Pickards had a child, Esme Anne Pickard, on 19th July 1907 in Bombay. She was christened at St Thomas’s; Gerald is described as a ‘traveller’.
o E Pickard going to Calcutta in 1932 – UK address was Atherstone, S. Farnborough (Rosie).
o Esme travelled to the UK, possibly twice, but almost certainly once, in May 1937 to marry George Young later that year. (FindMyPast but supposition).
o The address they give when they go out to India in 1937 is 3 George Street Edinburgh and George is a Life assurance official and the ships manifesto indicates they are going to live in India (Radcliff).
o If that is the correct couple GS Young and his wife again have been in the UK staying at the George Hotel ,George St Edinburgh before they return home to Calcutta in December 1947 sailed from Glasgow on the Brocklebank. (Radcliff).
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o George Young
o A George Young was born in Barnet in 1909 though this may be a different George, of course. (FindMyPast).
o Four Young children (three in Nottinghamshire and one in Yorkshire) born to mothers with maiden name Pickard in the few years that follow the marriage. (FindMyPast). One Nottingham child, XXX, born 1937, so this may eliminate Nottingham (plus Rosie’s comment). The Wetherby child (XXX) born in 1944.
o (The trail is difficult ..for example a XXX Young married a XXX Pickard in Willesden 1942)
o Answer to Jim1: In Scotland, there is one George Scott Young, born 1911, died 1950, and four George Youngs born between 1901 and 1907.
o Answer to Jim1: Looking at a friends 1939, there are four London George S Youngs, not married to Esme. In the whole register there are no Esme Youngs!
So it is possible that the Youngs were in India during the war but Radcliff has found an entry which says they went back to India in 1947 (Independence Year so unlikely they stayed .. perhaps to visit ageing relatives or to wind up affairs). They would have been used to travelling so this might have been a short visit.to the UK.
That ‘Scott’ second name for the death in Fife is interesting (George S Young married Esme
One Esme (precise search) death in UK only - Warwickshire. Jim1 says not mine!
Radcliff, I don’t know where you obtained the trip in 1947 to India data from but thank you. Did the passenger list include children? (Though they might have left the children with relatives in Scotland)!
Thanks again everyone,
Peter