Yes he was, although on his birth certificate and on other documents it is spelled Chriss. He had a brother, Tom Kershaw Buckley, and two sisters, Sarah and Emily. The marriage of Chriss and my grandmother failed circa 1932, when their only son, my father, was about six. According to my late father, neither he nor his mother ever saw Chris again. There was a scrap of family story that Chris had gone to Limavady in N Ireland (where he had no family connection). Oddly, Limavady came up again quite recently when I made contact with a descendant of Tom K. When Tom was small he was sent to stay with an uncle in Limavady, remained there for some months before being returned to Rochdale because his uncle had a family of his own and could not afford to keep Tom. I've been in touch with the Local Studies centre in Limavady, who have searched directories, etc, but failed to find any trace of my grandfather. It could be, of course, that he was living under an assumed name.
Just this last week I have acquired a copy of the will of Charles Buckley, father of Chris, Tom, Sarah and Emily. Only Tom and Sarah (under her married name, Whiteside) were mentioned in Charles's will. This could mean that Chris was no longer alive ... although someone apparently told my grandmother that he had been seen in Rochdale sometime during WW2. More likely, Chriss had become estranged from his father. Another family story reported that Emily went away and was never heard from again ... rumour that she was at some time the secretary or PA of someone important, possibly an MP.
I've been looking for Chriss ever since I began family research, but this constitutes my 'brick wall', or one of them!
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