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Hello and thank you all for your help, especially Emms, Barbara, Bob and Geoff.  Unfortunately I have had to remove some info regarding the Wade family to protect certain interests.  However, I really do want to thank you for helping me to find out about my Grandfather Inow have his date of birth, his date of death, where he lived and what he did for a living (well up until 1911).  I have found other people researching my Grandfather and can now trace his family back to 1700.

Incidentally the latest census had him living in Penrith working as a fishmongers assistant.

Any ideas how I can trace him after 1911?  I know he bought the Swinside Lodge, Newlands Valley with an inheritance from his father after 1919.

Thanks again.

Hi all

Thanks everyone you are so helpful. I am sure that is him Barbara.  I have a photograph of Joe with my aunt and my mother said she (auntie) was about 10 when it was taken, she was born in 1941 and I was born in 1958 and I know Joe died in that period, that probably makes the photo one of the last taken of him.

Bob, they have been talking about reinstating the Keswick to Penrith railway line for decades and as you say it will probably just remain talk, damn Beeching.  Some of my earliest childhood memories are of the Braithwaite to Keswick railway journey, catching the train from my home in Braithwaite and being met at Keswick by my paternal grand father. One of my schoolfriends fathers (Harvey Bowe) was a signalman and I remember pulling the heavy levers in the signal box to change the signals.  I lived in Braithwaite from birth to about 7 years old, 'halcyon days'. 

Hello all,

Barbara, Sorry I did not mean you were confusing me, I meant that I was confused.

No one in the family knows much about Joe Wade.

Old school Friends of my mother informed her that he was born in Rutland about 1884, Joe had been a fishmonger in and around Keswick. 

I have looked at all Census returns from 1841 - 1901, free bmd, ancestry.co.uk and on find my past all to no avail.

I was just wondering if there was anyone such as  Geoff and/or Bob Graham who seem to know the area knew anything about Joe Wade.

Thanks

Thanks Barbara,

There does not appear to be an Annie on that census, Annie was Joe's sister.

I am just grasping at straws.

Thanks anyway.