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Another of my recently found ancestral photo's, with no identifiable names.

So a possible time frame on the photo of this austere couple would be great

Thanks for looking

Al

I have a copy of the Scarborough & District Directory from 1920, and would be willing to look up names therein for individuals.

Areas Covered in the book as well as the above include:

Allerston: Argham: Ayton East & West: Binnington: Brompton: Bempton: Boythorpe: Buckton: Bickley: Burniston: Butterwick: Cayton: Cloughton: Ebberston: Everley: Filey: Flamborough: Flixton: Folkton: Flotmanby East & West: Fordon: Foxholes: Ganton: Gristhorpe: Hackness: Harwood Dale: Hayburn Wyke: Helperthorpe: Heslerton East & West: Hunmanby: Hutton Buscel: Irton: Langdale End: Lebberston: Muston: Newby: north Burton: Octon: Potter Brompton: Ravenscar: Raw: Reighton: Ruston: Sawdon: Scalby: Seamer: Sherburn: Silpho: Snainton: Speeton: Stainsacre: Staintondale: Staxton: Suffield: Thorton Le Dale: Thwing: Troutsdale: Weaverthorpe: Wheatcroft: Wilton: Willerby: Wold Newton: Wrench Green: Wykeham: Yedingham:

Book covers Streets, Occupant at the Address, Details of the said areas, Shops And Trades.

"For a look up request please start a new topic in the CENSUS and RESOURCE LOOKUP REQUEST board for this county"

Hi

Am at a huge crossroads in my family tree, the reason my Great Grandfather went by the name John William Brown !! why not Ebenezer instead of John 

I am presuming that he was born in Walsall Staffs, his birthday I know for certain was 23rd May 1877, ( but unable to locate his birth certificate )

The Walsall birth I have gleaned from his marrage cert to Ethel Hannah Tuffs on the 20th May 1907, at St Paul's Middlesborough. His Father is stated as William ( again why oh why not Ebenezer !  )

I next encounter him in the 1911 Census when he is living at 1 Hunters Balcony, James Street, Scarborough, along with Ethel and three of his children, his occupation Bricklayer Labourer.

I have a local Street Directory which in 1935 places them in Providence place, Scarborough.

He passes from this world on the 23rd October 1940.

It is of course the John Brown that has totally stumped me, and the John Brown I was following from Walsall ended up still being there in the 1911 census, which was a great disappointment. I had heard rumours previously within the family that he was from Lincolnshire so the Walsall link was new, a link that also showed up in the 1911 census that my Great Grandmother Ethel had written in, so with that she would not have made a mistake as she was quite particular with such things. Talk also went that he was brought up by his Aunt who ran a Pub / Inn again in Linc's.

My Great Grandmother Ethel was in the 1901 Census working as a domestic servant at The New Inn in Stokesley, so he had obviously migrated up to there by their wedding in 1907. His occupation of Journeyman / Labourer / Bricklayer have not helped.

So any ideas on how to trace this elusive person would be gratefully received, as I have gone down every avenue I know with no success. I realise the Brown Surname  is a nightmare and John as a Christian  name beggars belief but any advice however small would be a blessing.

Thanks for reading AL   

Bit of a quandary, having just received my 3 X grandfathers Marriage Cert, One John Charles Everett 21, a Seaman, by occupation, to one Sarah Jane Williams on 26/04/1870, it obviously names my 4 X grandfathers, namely one Edward Everett whose occupation is given as Architect, as the majority of my Ancestors are Agricultural Laborers, Laborers or Navel Personnel it was a pleasant surprise, but having difficulty locating an Edward Everett with an occupation as a Architect in any of the Census's, prior to this date or future dates, as John Charles was I believe born in London, about 1850, but married in Hartlepool, I am presuming that Edward was working in London, would anyone know of anyway to find records of Architects of this period, as I am assuming an Architect would have been quite a prestigious occupation at that time.