Looking for father in laws father died around 1949

[Haqer]

Hi my father in law David James moulding died last year. I am trying to make a family tree for my wife. I cannot find his father James moulding who died around 1949 he was born in Leicester but died while away working. Just wondered how I oils find more about him I have hit a blank wall

[CaroleW]

Hi and welcome

Just to check - did he die in this country or was he working abroad?

Do you have an approximate birth year for James and did he have a middle name

There are 2 possibilities - born 1901 died London 1947 or born 1908 died 1949 Cheshire

The Cheshire death was James H

[t mo]

hi and welcome to rootschat
carole beat me to it re home or abroad  only i,ve found 3 in the at sea deaths , you need to give us as much detail as possible as there are so many types of records to look in also did he have a second fore name .
regards
trevor

[toastbutler]

Hello Haqer
This is a great website and a good place to start:
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Try entering what you already know and see what you can find.
Bear in mind that not everything has been indexed.

I have found this which might get you started:

Births Sep 1939
Moulding  David J
(Mothers maiden name - Whitehouse)
Registered Leicester  7a 509

and:

Marriages Sep 1935
James Moulding (Spouse surname Whitehouse)
Doris Whitehouse (Spouse srname Moulding)
Registered Leicester  7a 814

Come back to RootsChat with as many questions as you like.

[O1dgobbo]

Hi
Start with F-in-L, David James Moulding: when was he born and what was his Mother's name. Look for the marriage of James Moulding with the Mother and then get the marriage certificate, which will cost £9+ from the GRO or guessing that James was between 20 and 30 when married look at the births index to see if you can find a good match born in Leicester.

Guessing and you need to check all this:
David J Moulding birth registered in Q3 1939 with Mother, Whitehouse., in Leicester
James Moulding and Doris Whitehouse married in Q3 1935 in Leicester.
There were two other Moulding/Whitehouse sons born after David J in Leicester*
There is a James Moulding birth registered in Leicester in Q4 1900 and you can find him with his family in the 1901 census: his Father was a shoe finisher.
Don't accept this as your family unless all the names, localities and dates check out: families have a nasty habit of using similar names in parallel branches.

Good luck

Gobbo

And toastbutler has beaten me to this!


*Moderator Comment
The names of living or potentially living people removed in line with Rootschat policy.

[Haqer]

wow what a fantastic response and so quick thank you
i do not have any further details about james moulding (he did marry doris whitehouse) all i know is that he died when my father in law david james moulding was around 10 and i am sure it was in this country, so that would put it at around 1949 so it could be CarolW's second option born 1908 died cheshire 1949. also the shoe finisher one is interesting because one of my father in laws uncles (Len) was a cobbler.
not sure if this is helping or making it more complicated
but thank you again and any more help gratefully accepted
Haqer

[Spidermonkey]

Don't think the 1949 Cheshire death is yours - if you check the probate records on ancestry it gives a Cheshire address for James Henry Moulding, and probate is granted to Florence Emily Moulding, widow

[[Ray]]

Hi

Maybe worth noting that Leicester was the shoe-making capital.


Stretching too far . . . . . ?
Death Reg 1943 Q3 Worthing 2b 371 James M Moulding (37y)


Ray

[toastbutler]

http://www.freebmd.org.uk
Deaths Sep quarter 1947
Moulding  James  age 46 registered  Pancras  reference 5d 340 (alternate name for St Pancras, London)
Going by his age he would have been born abt 1901.