Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips

[crazycaz]

I am looking for a birth date for the above person for a friend, who is his grandson.  He was a writer of books - war, gardening and seems to be quite prolific.  I can find his books, but not a birth date.  The friend has told me his wife was called Barbara, born in 1899 and she died in 2001 in Dorset.  Cecil died in the early 1980's but not sure of his birthdate. He believes he may have been born in the West Indies.  Cecil lived in Oxshott, Surrey for most of his life.

Many Thanks!

[rosie99]

Cecil Ernest Lucas Phillips
Birth Date   14 September 1897
Date of Registration of death   Feb 1984
Age at Death   86
Reg District Surrey Mid-eastern
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[rosie99]

From familysearch in 1911

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XW6W-ZRY

[crazycaz]

Thanks Rosy99!  Please will you let me know how he is listed on the 1911 census, as I still cannot find him on Ancestry.  I have tried under surname Phillips and Lucas Phillips, but to no avail! ;

[rosie99]

Just put in christian names Cecil Ernest  (no surname)  resident Ramsgate, Kent


They spell surname Philipps 

[crazycaz]

Thanks again.

[trish1120]

Marriage Reg;
Miles Lucas PHILLIPS, Sept 1895, Cardiff, 11a 413
Ada MOON on same page

Trish

[trish1120]

MILES LUCAS Phillips Christened29 July 1866, St Pauls, Clifton, Gloucester
Parents JAMES and ADA JUNE
(Source Familysearch.Org)

If you search on Familysearch the 1881 Census is there.
James Phillips is born c 1833 Birmingham, Staffordshire
(other Census has Birmingham or Birmingham, Warwickshire)

Marriage Reg;
Dec 1857, Axbridge 5c 1065
James PHILLIPS and Ada Jane STACY on same page

1861 James/Ada are in Weston Super Mare, Somerset.
No Children but his Mother age 65 is with them (down as Harriett but image is bad)
She is born c 1796, Bayborough, Somerset.

1851 Census Mother is Harriet and he has a Brother Edwin born c 1835

1841 Census
North Street,
Taunton, Somerset
James PHILLIPS, 35, Painter
Harriett, 50
Edwin, 5
JAMES, 5
Elizabeth Lee, 15, Female Servant
William CLYMICK, 35, Furrier?
All born in County

[crazycaz]

thank you for that Trish!  I found Miles after I found Cecil, but it was strange that his mother and wife were called Ada J!  I had difficulty reading the 1841 census, it was very feint, so thank you for the detail.  I couldn't find James jnr's marriage, so thank you again.  Seems that Harriet married someone a lot younger than herself, unless it is a younger brother.  The 1841 census doesn't give relationships.  I notice that Harriet put her status as 'married' in all the census after 1841, but no sign of a husband.  I will have to investigate that further, although it doesn't appear that Somerset had parish records online.

C