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Re: Desperately seeking Percy
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 23 August 15 17:29 BST (UK) »
looks like Eva had five children.

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Re: Desperately seeking Percy
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 23 August 15 17:34 BST (UK) »
Looks like at least one of Eva's daughter married and had three  children, who from their dates of birth could well still be alive.

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Re: Desperately seeking Percy
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 26 August 15 20:47 BST (UK) »
Thanks, wivenhoe. Yes, that's them. Leslie SP BREWER is a mystery. He was born 4 years after Percy ran off, and although his father is given as Percy on his birth cert., his middle names, Stuart Potter, suggest his father was actually someone else entirely! Unfortunately Leslie died later in 1915.
Neil, thanks for finding Percy Charles. It's not him, I'm afraid. My Percy was the Percy Amiedee (his parents had lived in Paris for a time), found by CaroleW, and the Percy C she found is probably that Percy Charles.
Jennifer, Percy's place of birth (on 2 Feb. 1879) was indeed Battersea. Thanks for looking down the TREGUNNA line. Eva's 5 children I have located are Evelyn (1911), Eileen (1913), John (1917), Sydney (after her brother, 1920), and Aimee (after her sister, 1923). All Wandsworth reg. district. I sent letters to the TREGUNNAs in the London telephone book, but got no reply. But of course, the children of Eva's daughter would have another surname. Can you give me that?

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Re: Desperately seeking Percy
« Reply #12 on: Monday 04 November 19 23:49 GMT (UK) »
I suppose you looked for Percy.s siblings on the 1939 register

Aimee was in Hertfordshire in domestic service
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Re: Desperately seeking Percy
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 05 November 19 10:43 GMT (UK) »
Percy's place of birth (on 2 Feb. 1879) was indeed Battersea.

From his baptism record
Percy Amidie BREWER dob 28th February 1879 - have you tried using his dob on the 1939 register?

1911 Percy Brewer & family living in Battersea
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW5Z-SS9

Have you checked the London Electoral Register?

Have also put this on your other thread
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=728945.msg6835787#msg6835787
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Re: Desperately seeking Percy
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 05 November 19 20:26 GMT (UK) »
Thanks, Ladyhawk. Percy's birth certificate definitely gives 2 February. Why his parents (presumably it was them) gave the wrong date seven years later is a mystery. But yes, using just his dob would get round him changing his name. Unless he changed that too!
Nothing in the London electoral registers, I'm afraid.