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Trying to find Malvern Road photo Whitehead/Kendall Summer, 1938

 T E Kendall b. 1891 (known as Tank to his workmates in the drawing office at Rushton & Hornsby works in Grantham) was my great-uncle who died in 1981.  He was a true Granthamian, having lived his whole life in the town, and was blessed with a remarkable memory.   He could quote events, especially relating to his family and my grandfather, and their brothers as if they had happened yesterday, giving exact days, months and years.   How did he come by such an august name at his baptism in Grantham.   The family story handed down is that (we don't know how)
Tank's father, William Vincent Kendall, was befriended by Tankerville Chamberlayne, President of the Royal Yacht Club, MP for Southampton, and had a family estate Cranbury Park near Southampton which he inherited in 1876.  According to Tank, a Christmas hamper would arrive in Grantham from Fortnum & Mason every year and Tank posted many letters to the said T.Chamberlayne from
WV Kendall.  Amongst family collection of photos was one of Cranbury Park and others which indicated the Grand Tour.   W.V. was educated at a minor public school at Framlingham,but the date of his leaving is not recorded c. 1870s, as he married in 1877.  Tankerville Chamberlayne 1894-1924.   WV Kendall 1855 - 1918. ( died in Grantham not as result of WW1)
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Researching the history of my gt. uncle Arthur Edwin Kendall who is thought to have left Coventry in 1938 to live and work in Cheltenham.  I found a newspaper report in the Gloucestershire Echo dated June 8th 1939 of a claim for wages, lost over nine weeks, as the result of an Assault which took place on Wed. 10th August 1938, presumably in Cheltenham.  At the time he lived in Roman Road almost certainly in lodgings. He suffered multiple injuries and was admitted to Cheltenham Hospital and then for two weeks in Bristol Royal Infirmary.   He was working at the time as an aircraft inspector at Aircraft Components Ltd, Cheltenham.  I believe this was the precursor to Dowty.   Though searching the Gloucestershire Echo for 1938 around the given date in August I have found no mention at all of an assault there.   This leads me to believe it may have taken place in the workplace and was kept out of the newspapers.  I would be most grateful to anyone who could help me solve the mystery of this attack on my relative.  He left Cheltenham to work at Filton Aircraft Works and found lodgings in Bristol where he died aged 61 in 1944.

I am trying to find Cornelius B(ardill) Withers, labourer, born 1859 Dry Doddington, Lincs, in the 1911 Census.  In 1891 He is living in Long Bennington with his mother Mary Withers.  In an earlier Census he was in Stocksbridge, Yorks, where other relatives were in the area.  My guess is that the Christian name has been mis-transcribed by someone who does not know the Biblical name, he sometimes appears as Cornelius B.   I have tried wild card, or just Withers and date of birth with other variations but no success.
There was a family tradition that a Withers from Long Bennington went to be a sheep farmer in Australia but I have always treated this with a query, as my great-aunts were interested in the actress Googie Withers.  Cornelius' father Richard is by this time dead, and also his mother Mary (born Calverton) died 1896.
He himself is unmarried by 1891.  Any help greatly appreciated.

Could some kind person do a look up for Emma (née Whitehead) widow of Alfred Beacham of Allesley who died aged 84 at Earlsdon Coventry in 1944? Could be burial at London Road Cemetery or Stoke St Michael, or even Allesley with her late husband.  Many thanks.