All records Crown Copyright, from
www.nationalarchives.gov.ukBirth certificate
Morris Amos Vickery Bradbury b 22nd Nov 1916 Dunrobin, Garfield Road, Paignton
Mother Isabella Bradbury- General nurse- same address
No father named
According to his son and granddaughter, Morris was adopted very soon after his birth and when he married in 1937 and died in 1945 (from TB when his son was 5) he was Morris Amos Vickery and Bradbury had disappeared. They know very little else about him, such as his occupation was or whether he served in WW2.
The info' on the birth certificate is all the information we have regarding Morris' birth mother. A search of births between 1866 and 1900 revealed only 10 Isabella Bradbury's. Out of those the only one I can find in Devon on any census was born in Manchester in 1880 and is on the 1911 census aged 30 and single living with her Mother and Father in Warren House, Warren Road, Tormoham (Torquay?)The transcript says Broadbury, but it's clearly Bradbury.
There's an I Bradbury in the telephone directory at Warren House 1927-30.
I can't find her or Morris on the 1939 register.
There's a death record for 1946 in Nottingham where the age fits.
The General Nurse on the birth certificate is a good clue, but I wouldn't know where to start looking for that info'.
Just wondering if there might be a baptism record for a Morris Amos Vickery in Devon around 1916/17?
Thanks in advance for any help.