« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 28 June 23 09:50 BST (UK) »
Looks like this thread has come to the fore again.
I just wondered if wdytya has got any further forward with identifying his great grandfather's original name in the intervening years. If not I was going to give it another go.
Having read through the thread again, I think these are the relevant bits of information we know about him.
It would be a miracle if you found anything given I have little information, this is what I know........
I have his marriage certificate which is dated 1904 and he was aged 28. I also have a death notice where he died in a works accident in 1925 aged 53, so born 1875/1876. On his marriage certificate his is shown in the army in Clarence barracks Portsmouth. His father is recorded as Simeon Adams (deceased), Butcher Journeyman.
There is a Stanley Samuel Adams on 1901 census, a gunner in RGA, single, stationed in Jersey, born in Bristol abt 1875. Could he be your man?
FindMyPast has military record of this Samuel.
He attested on 24 Oct 1895 at age of 20 yrs and 2 months. His birthplace given as parish of St Phillips Bristol. He was discharged on 23 Oct 1907, re-enlisted 2 Sept 1914
Next of kin: mother - Mary Adams, 1 Windsor Grove, Upper Easton, Bristol.
Was the name of his wife Agnes Powell? Were was he living at the time of his death?
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott