RootsChat.Com
Research in Other Countries => Europe => Topic started by: mudmonster on Tuesday 16 March 21 12:25 GMT (UK)
-
Hello ,I have been trying to trace a William J P Sankey dob 30/10/1913 in Malta ,I know who he married .I just cannot find any thing on his background.
Thanks
-
Does he name a father on his 1937 marriage cert?
What were his middle 2 names?
There is an incoming passenger entry 27.8.1928 from Brisbane for a 14yr old William Sankey going to 111 Westfield Rd West Ealing. No other Sankey's on list but several other passenger entries show RN (Royal Navy)
See also
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/images/CG6_1.pdf
-
His full name appears to be William Joseph Paul Sankey (from a small piece in newspapers)
Cathy
-
thankyou both Cath151 and Carole W,I didn't know his middle two names were joseph paul and no I do not know what is on the marriage cert,I will ask my family cousins about this as it is their tree,can i ask which paper was it in ? please
Thanks
-
He is also on an outgoing list in 1950 :
William J P Sankey Ldg Cook /O RNZN ( Royal New Zealand Navy ) 37
last address in UK 1 Dickens Road , Honickle , Plymouth
dep London 1 Dec 1950 on Rangitata
dest Wellington NZ
-
Hi
There are a couple of mentions, can be found here if you register free you can get three free pages.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=william%20joseph%20paul%20sankey&retrievecountrycounts=false
Cathy
-
Thanks for that Cathy very informative,I have now been told that he had brothers ,one was a Joseph Sankey who was a sergeant in the coldstream guards he was issued the Military Medal ,I will try to find out .
-
There is a Joseph E S Sankey who gained the MM for sevice at Dunkirk in 1943. He was in the RASC though not the Coldstream .
Pretty sure tis was Joseph Edward Spencer Sankey born 11th May 1912 from death index) who married Lucy A M Henderson in 1942 Okehampton.(Wifes mother Mrs Henderson mentioned in newspaper).
He is on the 1939 but no pointers as to possible family.
There is a passenger list 1931 Plymouth to Malta
Sankey Joseph Edward Sankey 11th May 1912 photographer aged 18 ...19 Carfee Terrace, mount Gold Road, Plymouth
Intended place of residence Malta.
Frustratingly can t find parents.
Cathy
-
Thanks cathy for this info,again you seem to have got the right one(hopefully)Maybe he went over to coldstream later,I will look this Joseph up as to when he died,Tyburn London has been mentioned also a wife called Kitty so maybe he has married again
Thanks again
-
Hello Again ,I may have a update on the Sankey Family,I believe the Joseph ES Sankey we may be after was married in 1911 in Malta ,he was stationed there as a machine gunner,Would any nice person on here have access to Find My Past so I could find out who he married the ref was ARM 2 under marriages
Thanks
-
He married Marriana Decesare . You would need to order the certificate from GRO to get other details.
Gro Index Army Marriages (1881 To 1955)
Records year range 1911
Archive reference ARM2
Page 43
Line number 114
-
Christine 53 ,thankyou so much for this info,I thought I was on the wrong track as it was only hearsay i will be able to tell my cousins now of this new information,I know joseph died in 1924 in birmingham area,looking at the rest of the tree's on Ancestry it would seem they were unaware of this marriage
Thank you again
-
Hello again ,update on Sankey tree,there is now a sister called Mary Ann Sankey born 1916 in Malta. I think that Marriana Decesare is now Marriana Curle her first husband died in 1924 as there is a reference to her coming from Malta in 1928 same address given as one of her sons in West Ealing again in 1939 same address as one of her sons in plymouth the daughter also lived in the address in 1933
-
Hello once again ,Another update Marriana has remarried to a William Curle a naval warrant officer 1924-1928 marriage ?now I need to find William
-
There were Sankey in Malta since 1832, I guess. And at least two other generations after that.
I have a list of early Sankey there if it can help.