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« on: Monday 31 March 08 10:42 BST (UK) »
Like many other people I'm having trouble tracking down an ancestor in the early 1900s (post 1911 !!)
my great uncle Richard Nightingale BANKS was born in Chorlton Lancs, (some family links with Warrington) but no clue as to where he got married (if at all) or his death. I do not know if he emigrated.
But his wife and son are listed as "Mrs BANKS and nephew N. BANKS" as mourners at my grandfathers funeral (Llewelyn GRIFFITH, schoolmaster at Stockport Grammar School - full page report in Advertiser) in Stockport in 1937. (Must be Richard's wife as his only brother Roland was killed in WW1 and no marriage traced for him)
We have searched and checked some BMD entries but nothing matches up for a Richard Banks, and there is nothing with his middle name, though he might have dropped it.
I cant remember if i have checked the phone books for Stockport, but Richard and his family could be anywhere, and there must have been some reason why he was not at the funeral in 1937.
the father (also Richard Nightingale ) of Richard, Roland and Mary my grandmother, was buried at Norbury Stockport in 1922 and was living in Stockport, as was Llewelyn and Mary. We dont know anything about Richard junior - where he was living, where he got married or his wifes name or his death. Mary died in 1967 but until the last few years my sister and I didnt even know of the existence of our grandmothers brothers ! and we are in our late 50s, Stockport born and bred.
Any ideas / help appreciated. (Im now in Portsmouth!!)
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