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Nedster,
There were two girls born to Emily and James. Louise you have details of was born 8/1/1902 and a second born Q4 of the same year. Her name was Emily Margaret Parr. There is a record of her death in Q1 1906 aged 3. Poplar 1C 327 is the reference on FreeBMD. Not sure if you know Poplar but it had one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country for many years.
Emily went on to have five children to Charles Wade. Two boys, Charles and William and three girls Doris, Lilian and Ada, my grandmother. I knew them all when I was growing up except Lilian.
Charles Wade was a seaman on HMS Philomel and I believe he died of injuries during a conflict with Turkish troops during a landing operation of (probably) ANZAC troops during the Gallipoli campaign.
Emily never married again although she had another son to a Joseph Scourfield in 1920. The reason I heard that she never married Scourfield was that she was afraid of losing her Widows War Pension. Scourfield has been described as "a bit fly" (this from a police officer retired) and he tried to do Emily out of her pension. One of her sons gave him such a hiding when he found out that he, the son, run off to join the British Army in India for fear that he may have gone a bit too far! Such was the Wades form of justice. My Nan being one of the worst!
It does seem strange you can find no record of his death. I only joined this site yesterday hoping to find anything of my Rollinson family in Ratcliff but not a mention here. I found some of them in the 1841 census in a house with 22 people of varying families but they disappeared for the next two census.
Good luck with your search.
George