The earlist date on the navel record for Percy is 1918 and he is still there in 1931.
The Wm is niggling at me little bit
raa, do you have his birth/baptism?
I could only find the three girls, the girls have middle names so does brother
Sydney John so perhaps Percy's middle name is William after his mother Emily's father William
Baptism St Pierre Port Guernsey Channel Islands
Elias Matthew Cavey &
Emily Grace Ball
Eva Emily 18 Dec 1898
Elsie Enid 13 Dec 1900
Gladys Maud 21 Nov 1902
Raa said that Elsie married in Birkenhead - may be nothing but there is a birth of a son in Birkenhead mmn Cavey - named after her brother perhaps
he has the middle initial of
'W'the post I made for a
Percy Cavey going to New York Feb 1919
he was
born 17/8/1894 Guernseyhis address was given a
8 R(en?)dle St Plymouththe death I posted for
Percy W Cavey age 38 (1895) in Plymouth 1933
there’s a possible marriage for him in 1923 Plymouth to Janie Ley and her
death Janie Cavey age 61 in Plymouth 1965
for info. Janie's father Edward Percy Ley was in the Navy and died 1916
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0y7y/and two Cavey children born 1925 & 1931 Plymouth mmn Ley
a reformatory school training ship
maybe of interest
"Cornwall." - reformatory training-ship of the School Ship Society anchored off Purfleet.
http://www.victorianlondon.org/charities/trainingships.htmloaned to the School Ship Society by the Admiralty in 1868, and fitted as a training ship,
was
re-named ‘Cornwall’ to be moored off Purfleet in April of that year.
Owing to industrial development at Purfleet, she was moved to Denton, below Gravesend in 1928.
http://www.thurrock-history.org.uk/wooden.htm