mystery man

[manmack]

does anyone fancy doing some detective work on this soldier.
james hockwell
on the back of a photo of this man was written."jim"hockwell RFA captured in ww1,served nearly 21 years before ww1 started,the photo of him is in the corps of commisionaires uniform,hes wearing the 1914 or the 1914-15 star war +victory medals and the kings+queens south african medals,he looks to be in his forties,the photo was taken after the war,i dont think this bloke ever saw any service,i found james hockwell in 1901 as a printers labourer,so how can he have served in SA,he would have to have been in SA in 1901 to earn the kings SA medal,i think the only way to find out,is to search for him in the civvie records,anyone up for it,mack
ps,theres an address in bradford also on the card,but it doesnt say whether its bradford in yorkshire or bradford in manchester

[liverpool annie]

Hi Mack!

First of all it would be hard to check if he really was captured in WW1 !!
but if you really did want to go into it - this may give some ideas!

http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch/tomspage19.html

OK! where do you want to try first ? do you know ? or do you want us to just have a go? also what's the address?

http://static.flickr.com/40/104026303_ec99b6f693_o.jpg

Is his uniform similar to this ? what exactly did they do ? was it some type of security job? I found this photo on here !

http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/index.html

Annie 

[liverpool annie]

I wonder if by any possible chance - this could be his medal card? It's Hocking NOT Hockwell ......... !

Hocking, James
Royal Field Artillery
17866
Driver
Royal Field Artillery
17866
Serjeant
Date
1914-1920

http://tinyurl.com/g629v

Annie 

[Wendi]

Hi Manmack

Do you have the reference for the 1901 Census?  I use Ancestry, and they don't have him on the 1901 Census.  There are many reasons that may have happened - so the reference would help.

No other James Hockwell, that could appear to be a match appears on any other census according to Ancestry.

Wonder if "Jim" was a nickname

Wendi

[Valda]

The James Hockwell of the 1901 census is in fact James A. Stockwell on the actual census page (as indexed by Ancestry). The surname Hockwell looks to be incredibly rare as Wendi has already said.
FreeBMD only finds 23 examples in the civil registration - incomplete index 1837-1910 but millions of entries none the less. No James Hockwells.

Regards

Valda

[liverpool annie]

Valda!

After 2 days of looking for this man - I finally came up with Stockwell ....... 
and you beat me to it!!!! I've been waiting for Mack to come back on - so I can ask questions - I've got segs on me eyeballs looking for him!!  ( some Hockwells in America though!!)

He's got to be under an alias or this is a trick question !! 

Annie