Hi Sonia
Popped in from the other topic!
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,330994.0.htmlOne thing bothers me here...actually a couple of things....
1) Your Grandad is b 1923, the last born child of Jesse (1881-1942, m 1907). Is that right?
Your Grandad says he used to call the much sought-after Robert, who was alive in the 1970's, "Uncle Bob ' and that Mabel, Grandad's eldest sibling visited this "Uncle Bob" around 1948?
And it is asserted above that this Robert is the son of Jesse's eldest sibling, George b 1872.
Which would make Grandad b 1923 and Robert b
?, 1st cousins. I wouldn't have thought the realtionship convoluted enough, or far enough apart in years, to warrant Grandad calling Robert "Uncle"....but could be wrong about that......
Or is it that Grandad talked about Uncle Bill, (George William b 1886) and Mabel visited
him in 1948? And Uncle Bill had a son, Bob?
2)
1881 Census for the BENTLEY's - Jesse is there age 3mths.
The Eldest child there is George 8, b abt 1872 Baildon.
1891 Census for the BENTLEY's - George b 1872 not there (now would be abt 18?). But a new child, George William age 5, b abt 1886 has appeared. This George William is also present in 1901, age 15. Yes there are documented instances of English families giving two living children the same first name. But it was rare and relatively speaking, it was far more common for parents who, when a child died young , gave their next born child of the same gender the same name as the one who died. It happened a lot in Scotland, and to a lesser extent, in England.
I really don't think George b 1872 lived. Is it not more possible he died and this may be his death registration:
George BENTLEY age 13, Sep Qtr 1885, Wharfedale
And after all that - I have just found:
George William BENTLEY b 1886 - Jesse's younger brother., is definitely, the one who married Laura.
Sep Qtr 1907, N. Brierley - George William BENTLEY and Laura Elizabeth McCLEARNS
George William age 32, Baildon, enlisted to Army Reserves 1915, and was re-mobilized in WW1 in 1918. . His service record names his wife as above and has particulars of their 1907 marriage and - names 2 children:
William b 1907 Windmill?
Frederick A(lexander?) b 1911 Baildon
If they GW and Laura had a Robert, then it seems like it was after 1918 - or between 1915-1919, so again close to the age of your Grandad b 1923 who surely to goodness would not be calling such a Robert, "Uncle".....
I shall PM you with details.
There is an address for GW. Maybe Grandad will recognise some of the information (address' etc)....
Cheers
AMBLY
