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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: KitHannay on Wednesday 14 February 18 15:59 GMT (UK)
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Hi all,
I'm trying to suss out the whereabouts of an ancestor - William Houghton. He was born in about 1873 (I cannot locate a birth record in GRO or Scotland although his parents were John Houghton and Harriet Lloyd). He married my great great grandmother Rose Hannah (who was Scottish) in Scotland. They had a son in Hampshire, England in 1899 and a daughter in Scotland in 1900. When he got married in 1895 he was a private in the 84th Royal Artillery and by 1899 when his son was born, he was a driver in the 66th Royal Artillery. Can anyone help me find out more about him?
I definitely think he died in WWI. Rose remarried in 1920's and was recorded as a widow. I live in Ireland so going to any archives in England is out of the question at the minute.
Thanks!
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Presumably he was in South Africa in 1901. There was a Driver W Houghton (8074) with 67 Battery who was invalided home.
Do you have the family in the 1911 census?
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Hiya,
I found his wife and two kids living in Scotland in 1901. She is recorded as ‘wife of a soldier’. I can find none of the family in 1911 however. In fact, I can’t find those two kids at all after 1901. I know Rose remarried and then died in 1930s.
Can’t find any of them in 1911 though!
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You've probably seen the George Houghton/Harriet Lloyd marriage in Birmingham RD in 1865. There was a William Edwards Houghton born in Kings Norton RD in 1875, mmn Lloyd. That family needs to be researched, I suggest.
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Oh thanks so much for that, I'm looking into that now.