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Title: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: Muffin41 on Monday 31 July 17 12:48 BST (UK)
John W. McDonald married Ivy Coward 3q 1921 Pancras 1b 289. They had two daughters both born in London.

Ivy Coward was born in Woking Surrey 1q 1892 Guildford 2a 59 and was still living there in 1911.
I am seeking more information for John W. McDonald who I believe was born about 1898; place not known. – may have been Essex but not certain.

Can anyone help further?

Muffin41
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 31 July 17 13:29 BST (UK)
Can you find them on the 1939 National Register?

Otherwise, with a common name like John McDonald, I think you are going to need the Marriage Certificate?
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: Muffin41 on Monday 31 July 17 13:37 BST (UK)
No I have not found them in 1939 KGarrad.
Their second daughter Jean Ivy was born 1q 1924 Fulham 1a 474

Nothing found after that year.
 
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 31 July 17 13:52 BST (UK)
Ancestry have a mention of a John W McDonald in their British Postal Appointment Books.
29 December 1922, London Postal Service Northwest.

Possible mentions, too, on Electoral Registers?
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: Muffin41 on Monday 31 July 17 13:57 BST (UK)
I think that I will have to buy the marriage certificate.

My have to buy list is getting longer. ;)

muffin41
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 31 July 17 14:05 BST (UK)
There is a passenger list for a John Warnes Mcdonald age 54 & an Ivy age 59  - address 50 Otterburn Gardens, Isleworth - He was a representative They were returning to Southampton from Capetown in 1954
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 31 July 17 14:08 BST (UK)
If he is the right J W Mcdonald Ancestry have RAF records

In 1925 he and Ivy are at 31 Hartismere Road (Fulham ?)
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 31 July 17 14:12 BST (UK)
1938/39  Electoral register both at 21 Coronation Road, Acton

There is an Ivy McDonald on free index 1939 in Acton area Year of birth slightly out. 
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 31 July 17 14:16 BST (UK)
John WARNES McDonald
Age   18
Birth Date   26 Oct 1899
Birth Place - Ben, London
Service Date   26 Nov 1917
Service Number   146,844
Father John Kinnis McDonald
Next of Kin John Kinnis McDonald
Relation to Airman Father
(Records are available on Fold3 ) - Also on FindMyPast
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: MonicaL on Monday 31 July 17 14:18 BST (UK)
Rosie, that fits with this birth for him:

John Warnes McDonald, 4th Qrt 1899 in Poplar, ref 1c/356

Monica
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 31 July 17 14:18 BST (UK)
Yippee - RAF records name his wife as Ivy Coward  ;D
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: Muffin41 on Monday 31 July 17 14:22 BST (UK)
Monica; Rosie your gems of information, where do you dig it up? ;D


Muffin41 :D :D
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: MonicaL on Monday 31 July 17 14:32 BST (UK)
Well done, Rosie. Great finds you have there  ;)

Monica
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 31 July 17 14:33 BST (UK)
Mother's maiden name is Warnes, from the GRO Index Search:

MCDONALD, JOHN  WARNES      (MMN:) WARNES      
GRO Reference: 1899  D Quarter in POPLAR  Volume 01C  Page 536


Siblings:

MCDONALD, FLORA        WARNES      
GRO Reference: 1895  S Quarter in POPLAR  Volume 01C  Page 577

MCDONALD, ELSIE  GRACE      WARNES      
GRO Reference: 1907  S Quarter in POPLAR  Volume 01C  Page 497
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 31 July 17 14:34 BST (UK)
And a marriage, from FreeBMD:

December qtr 1894
Poplar Registration District     vol 1c, page 1134

McDonald, John Kinnis
Warnes, Annie Mary
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: rosie99 on Monday 31 July 17 14:35 BST (UK)
It is weird sometimes how things drop into place, if I hadn't spotted that passenger list I could still have been looking  ;D
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 31 July 17 14:43 BST (UK)
1911 census on FamilySearch:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWPC-XQY

John is a Dyer, born 1867, Perthshire

1891 Census, he is staying with Uncle and Aunt John & Mary Kinnis in Hastings.
He is still a Dyer.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4ZGP-S6Z

1901 Census, living in Bow:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X94G-23J
Title: Re: Seeking John W. McDonald´s parents and birth year
Post by: Muffin41 on Monday 31 July 17 15:05 BST (UK)
Thank you for the additional details KGarrad, they help fill in the gaps. ;)