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« on: Monday 07 April 14 20:25 BST (UK) »
Hello everyone, I'm new here:-)
I'm having big problem!s with my mum's family, brick wall after brick wall! Here's my story!
My great grandad, David Waters, was born in 1885 in Jarrow, South Shields to Henry and Martha Waters. They moved to Upton Bishop in 1891, then Weston Under Penyard on the 1901 and 1911 censuses. David then married my great grandmother, Alice Goode, formerly of Brampton Abbots, in 1917.
Now to Alice ..... She had a first husband, George Bick, whom she married in 1899 and who had two daughters with for definite. Then George died in 1916 in Burghill Asylum - why he was there nobody knows. His death certificate says he had had paralysis of the insane for two years .... In the meantime, Alice gets pregnant with my grandmother Kathleen. Kathleen's paternity is not really reliable. Kathleen was born on 6th June 1914. Family stories said Alice got pregnant not with George. Maybe he was in the asylum!
The fact she went on to marry David makes us all think he is Kathleen's father. Kathleen's birth wasn't registered and she wasn't christened unlike her legitimate sisters! What a different world.
David then had a sad life, he was thrown out by Alice when they moved to Ross and went from one poor union to another, ending up in Leominster Old Priory Hospital where he died in 1964. Nobody spoke of him and my mum never met her grandad.
Hereford council tell me he wasn't buried in Herefordshire?!!
How can I find out where he was buried?
Any help much appreciated!
Thank you.
Sophie
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. Alice didn't seem to have a lot of luck with her husbands. As regards her first husband, think patients at Burghill were buried in mass graves from what I've read but wonder if a trip to Burghill churchyard might reveal a resting place for George Bick, don't really want to pay £17 for another burial search to Herefordshire Council that might not be fruitful!