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Title: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: tempogold on Monday 10 September 12 16:33 BST (UK)
John Blundell Mitchell was born in 1905 in Hampstead London. In  1911 he was living with his mother Louisa Mitchell and his siblings at Masons bridge House ,Earlswood Redhill, Surrey.
While I have an idea of the lives of his siblings I can find no marriage record or death record for him. Any Suggestions
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: louisa maud on Tuesday 11 September 12 10:59 BST (UK)
Not much help but there is a baptism for him at Holy Trinity Hampstead on 13/05/1905, father William Henry and mother Louise, father a merchant, might this mean with this occupation he might have travelled abroad with his father, only this and a birth shown for John Blundell

Louisa Maud
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: tempogold on Tuesday 11 September 12 13:50 BST (UK)
Thank you . Alas no--his father died on 1909---but left some £55,000 to the family---So they are well provided for .
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: louisa maud on Tuesday 11 September 12 14:40 BST (UK)
Another thought is the wife married for the second time and he took on his step father's name, just a suggestion.

LM
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: tempogold on Tuesday 11 September 12 16:53 BST (UK)
Thanks. Had not thought of that--althrough the others retained theirs. But they all travelled--and some lived abroard before returning to England--perhaps he went abroad.

Appreciate the steers.
Thanks
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: louisa maud on Tuesday 11 September 12 17:17 BST (UK)
Perhaps you need to look at outward and returning passengers, did he use his name as a double barrelled name, another thought

LM
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell revisited
Post by: tempogold on Friday 31 August 18 11:33 BST (UK)
Hello
Its some years since I looked at John Blundell Mitchell born  13/2/1905.  I have uncovered some more  information but he still  remains a mystery.

I now know he was  engaged on  24/11/1930 to a Dorothy Molloy Whiting but I cant find a marriage record. On the  1935 Electoral role he is living at 93 Doods Road Reigate with his mother ( now remarried) Louise Waterer--no mention of a wife for him--along with other family members . i looked at shipping records and found that

 In 1956 (24/8/1956) he sailed from New York to Lisbon.listed by his full name. No Family with him.
In May 1958 he arrives at Southampton --listed as John Mitchell --but DOB correct. From that entry we learn he was a chemist, married , and home address is 43 cranbourne Rd ,Slough Bucks . Ships record confirms he lives in England . But what happens to him ??

I am assuming he dies before 1966 --but that's simply because he is the only one of his siblings not mentioned in his mothers will.
Grateful for any information.
Thank You .
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 31 August 18 13:35 BST (UK)
Free search of the 1939 register using that birth date has him as John Mitchell living in Slough
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 31 August 18 13:38 BST (UK)
Death
John Mitchell
Birth   13/02/1905
Death Dec qtr 1972 Windsor reg district
6a /656
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 31 August 18 14:07 BST (UK)
There is an engagement announcement in The Times in Oct 1936 for a Dorothy Molloy Whiting daughter of Mr & Mrs Harmer Whiting to Eric Grayson Lovell  ???
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: tempogold on Saturday 01 September 18 06:39 BST (UK)
Hello Rosie and thank you for the information.  Yes its the same lady so unfortunately her first engagement didnt work out .  Will send for Johns death certificate and it will hopefully hold some clues. Despite there being 4 Mitchell siblings only his sister Sybil Blanche (Jenks) appears to have had a child and unfortunately he died in 1946 .
Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 01 September 18 07:39 BST (UK)
I wonder if his wife lived with him in Slough, it appears to be a house rather than a business property.  As the address for him is the same as given on the 1958 passenger list maybe she is resident there after the war.

Title: Re: John Blundell Mitchell
Post by: tempogold on Saturday 01 September 18 10:47 BST (UK)
In 1937 he is in Reigate with his Mitchell siblings and mother so I am assuming single. But the 1939 return shows him as married but no sign of his wife. So it rather looks like he may have married between 1937-1939 but a search to date has not shown up a likely match. Think I best get his death cert .