Hi Folks, I have come here after gathering quite a lot of information from the Findmypast free weekend but already I have come across my first stumbling block.
I have gleaned that my grandfather was called Horace Hagger (as was my father) born 1908 in Rotherham but the birth details have no mothers name and also looking at the census from Rotherham of 1911 I cannot find any trace of him but there is a Robert Hagger of 21 Psalters Lane Rotherham who had several children and two of those named Florrie a girl born in 1905 and a boy 1908, I think I am on the right track here as when my grandmother was still alive, living in Hull and remarried by this time, she used to talk of someone called aunt Jessie now I took it for granted she was one of her sisters but looking at this census record there is a Jessie Hagger born 1897 who was obviously the older sister of this boy with a girls name, I am thinking that someone filling in the details at the time got mixed up.
I found out my grandmother's maiden name was Westlake, married Horace Hagger June 1929,and I know they had my father in 1929 followed by two brothers in 1932 and that my Grandmother remarried as after my Grandfather died, I have no knowledge of how he died either and I can find only one Horace Hagger that died after this time and that is a soldier who has same year of birth from Rotherham.
So my newbie question is how do I find out the year of the death of my grandfather to either corroborate or discount that this soldier is actually my grandfather.
