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London and Middlesex / Re: Nellie May Keen / HW Webster
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 08:32 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: amondg on Sunday 28 April 24 08:30 BST (UK)
It might have been a matter of pride.

Harry (senior) and Nellie married 13 October 1912 son Harry William was born 22 October 1912

9 days after they married.

But the record appears to show he was born 3 years before they married, when Nellie would be 15 !

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Hints which have no relation to the person they are giving the hint for
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 08:30 BST (UK)  »
I have one branch of my family that upped sticks and emigrated to USA and changed their surname -for no obvious reason - but they didn't all make the change at the same time. I wish Ancestry would give me hints on this family with a different surname living in a different continent. I've managed to unravel some of the mystery but still big holes.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Nellie May Keen / HW Webster
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 08:21 BST (UK)  »
I think it is just a clerical error on the soldier's record. Got the child dob muddled with day and month of Harry snr

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London and Middlesex / Re: Nellie May Keen / HW Webster
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 08:17 BST (UK)  »
There's a death of a Harry W Webster age 0 in Islington district Q1 1913

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Kent / Re: Webb / Scrace marriage possibly Tunbridge Wells around 1880
« on: Saturday 27 April 24 08:47 BST (UK)  »
The National Archive link is free if you sign in for free account

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Kent / Re: Webb / Scrace marriage possibly Tunbridge Wells around 1880
« on: Saturday 27 April 24 08:46 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: softly softly on Saturday 27 April 24 08:26 BST (UK)


https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBM%2FLIVES%2F4025134

(Click on view original record)

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5148943

The FindMyPast link is to a photo of him!
Is there a photo of Jimmie to compare?

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Kent / Re: Webb / Scrace marriage possibly Tunbridge Wells around 1880
« on: Friday 26 April 24 13:55 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: LizzieL on Friday 26 April 24 13:37 BST (UK)
Curiously I can find a James Webb in correct quarter in Steyning mmn Shufflebotham. Can't find a likely marriage to fit in that area though.

could one of the son's be the father and died before 1921 and so did his wife? and grandma took care of Jimmie.

Or one of the daughters had a relationship with a Mr Shufflebotham and switched the surnames round when the birth was registered

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Kent / Re: Webb / Scrace marriage possibly Tunbridge Wells around 1880
« on: Friday 26 April 24 13:37 BST (UK)  »
Curiously I can find a James Webb in correct quarter in Steyning mmn Shufflebotham. Can't find a likely marriage to fit in that area though.

could one of the son's be the father and died before 1921 and so did his wife? and grandma took care of Jimmie.

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Kent / Re: Webb / Scrace marriage possibly Tunbridge Wells around 1880
« on: Friday 26 April 24 13:27 BST (UK)  »
A census record is only as good as the informant (Head of Household) knows. In 1921 (as in 1911) we are seeing the form the householder actually filled in, so we don't have the problem of any enumerator transcription errors. Of course, Alice snr might have though he was born in Hove but not asked the child's mother. When Jimmie was born, Hove would have been in the Steyning registration district.
Jimmie could have been a nickname, short for James, or his middle name could have been James, or his real name could be something unrelated to either Jimmie or James. (My OH says his father called him Charley when he was a child - he has three forenames, none remotely like Charles or Charley !)

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