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Frederick David Walter West registered Hendon Middlesex March quarter 1908 Vol. 03A page 274 mother's maiden name Jarvin

Thomas John West registered Hendon Middlesex June Quarter 1910 Vol. 03A page 379 mother's maiden name Galvin.
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There is a newspaper report from the Yarmouth Mercury dated 23 February 1918, when they found his body. A Cpl. H F West says he is his brother.
Frederick had been in the hospital in Cambridge with a bad heart.   

Pension of 27 shillings/11 pence per week awarded to the widow with 2 children on 12 August 1918.   

Have you got his birth certificate? an exact date of birth might help.

Matthew Walsh registered 1855,Ashton - March quarter, vol 8d page 383

Thanks  mckha489.

So dad was first a book keeper and now a cutler!

I wonder if he existed, did she make him up?

Benjamin Parkin dies 1864 age 44.

In 1877 Ann Parkin marries Thomas York reg. Sheffield.

**Do you have the 2nd marriage of Ann Parkin nee Wilson does she still say her father is Thomas and a Book Keeper??

1881 census Benjamin Parkin and Maria Parkin transcribed as Parker on ancestry are living with Thomas York and Ann York (formerly Parkin nee Wilson) listed as step children.
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From Benjamin's first marriage he had son George who he named for paternal grandfather.
With Ann Wilson he had:-
Joseph 1848     (who is he named for ?)
Ann Elizabeth 1850   - named for mother and paternal grandmother?
Alfred 1852  died 1853 age 0 or 1854 age 1 death certificate needed to verify
Benjamin 1854 - named for his father
Thomas 1856  died 1856 age 0  (4th son likely named for Benjamin's brother)
Edward 1857   died 1860 age 3
Wilson 1860  died 1863 age 2 (mothers maiden name)
Maria 1864  (named for Benjamin's sister)

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George Parkin widower married Elizabeth Jessop spinster 16 March 1819 - Cathedral Sheffield
Children
Benjamin born 14 December 1819 , bap. 26 July 1820  father slitter and roller
NOTE on the same day bap George son of George and Sarah born 16 December 1815 is this a son from his previous marriage, father slitter and roller.
Mary Hannah born 5 October 1824 bap 18 March 1825
Alfred born 14 June 1827 bap 20 February 1828
Maria born 29 January 1830  bap. 7 March 1830
Thomas born 11 February 1832  bap. 28 March 1832.

1841 census
George Parkin 50 - Roller
Elizabeth 47
Benjamin 21
Alfred 13
Maria 11
Thomas 9

sister Mary Hannah 15 is a female servant of her uncle Joseph Jessop.
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1851
Alfred Parkin 23
Mary Parkin  26  sister
Maria Parkin 21  sister
Thomas Parkin 19  brother
George 7 nephew (son of Benjamin and his first wife Amelia Coates)


   

The address comes from the Anfield Cemetery Registers - on ancestry

Charles Arkinstall Evans was buried 13 May 1920 age 48 - Porter - public grave section 17 grave 3234
His address 101 Oxford Street.