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Worcestershire / The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« on: Sunday 09 December 18 02:46 GMT (UK) »
I need some help finding the whereabouts of my 2nd great-grandfather between around 1891 and 1921.
This is what I know of him:
- born 6 Jan 1850 Quarry Bank, Kingswinford Staffordshire (source: birth certificate)
- 1851 and 1861 lived with parents and siblings. In 1861 was an iron labourer.
- 1871 was a stock taker
- 24 Jun 1872 married Betsy Brooks at St. Kenelms, Romsley (source: marriage certificate)
- 1881 lived on Belmont Road with wife and mother in law. Occupation was bucket maker.
- trade directories show him as a bucket maker or galvanizer in 1888, 1889, 1890, and 1891.
- Crabbe Street Infant School admission records in 1891 or 1892 mentions him as the father to George Harry Brooks Dunn
- he is mentioned in his mother-in-law's Will written in 1891 but only as the husband to her daughter
He disappears after that. He isn't in the 1891 census, in 1901 and 1911 his wife Betsy calls herself a widow (I believe they separated or divorced) and there is nothing from him again until his son's marriage in 1915. The marriage certificate has him as a Sheet Iron Worker (master). I have a death certificate for an Edwin Dunn. At first I thought it was the wrong man but then I decided to trace all of the Edwin Dunns born around 1850 and my Edwin is the only one whose birth fits by a long shot.
Death Certificate states died 13 Aug 1921 at District Hospital. Address was 6 Bell Fold, Rood End, Oldbury. Occupation: General Labourer. Informant was S.A. Dickins of 12 Bell Fold, Rood End, Oldbury. Died of inoperable cancer of rectum and intestinal obstruction.
I have no idea where he was or what he was doing from about 1891 until his (possible) death in 1921. Any help finding him would be great.
This is what I know of him:
- born 6 Jan 1850 Quarry Bank, Kingswinford Staffordshire (source: birth certificate)
- 1851 and 1861 lived with parents and siblings. In 1861 was an iron labourer.
- 1871 was a stock taker
- 24 Jun 1872 married Betsy Brooks at St. Kenelms, Romsley (source: marriage certificate)
- 1881 lived on Belmont Road with wife and mother in law. Occupation was bucket maker.
- trade directories show him as a bucket maker or galvanizer in 1888, 1889, 1890, and 1891.
- Crabbe Street Infant School admission records in 1891 or 1892 mentions him as the father to George Harry Brooks Dunn
- he is mentioned in his mother-in-law's Will written in 1891 but only as the husband to her daughter
He disappears after that. He isn't in the 1891 census, in 1901 and 1911 his wife Betsy calls herself a widow (I believe they separated or divorced) and there is nothing from him again until his son's marriage in 1915. The marriage certificate has him as a Sheet Iron Worker (master). I have a death certificate for an Edwin Dunn. At first I thought it was the wrong man but then I decided to trace all of the Edwin Dunns born around 1850 and my Edwin is the only one whose birth fits by a long shot.
Death Certificate states died 13 Aug 1921 at District Hospital. Address was 6 Bell Fold, Rood End, Oldbury. Occupation: General Labourer. Informant was S.A. Dickins of 12 Bell Fold, Rood End, Oldbury. Died of inoperable cancer of rectum and intestinal obstruction.
I have no idea where he was or what he was doing from about 1891 until his (possible) death in 1921. Any help finding him would be great.