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1939 Alfred Thomas vehicle builder with mother Eliza Caroline
Caroline Ann with her children in Fulham
That Alfred Thomas isn't the father of your Eric. The vehicle builder in Fulham would appear to be with his wife who is some years older and he was born in 1882 in Barnet RD with MMN Fox. They are together on the Electoral Rolls at the same address as early as 1927.
In any case, Eliza Caroline Chaplin nee Bradford is on the 1939 Register with her husband Alfred and son James at 20 St Olafs Road, Fulham, the same address they are at on the 1911 Census.
Alfred Thomas Chaplin son of Alfred and Eliza Caroline can be found at 74 Wardo Avenue, Fulham, on the 1939 Register. His occupation looks like Lead Light Cemente... (the end of the last word is obscured by the middle of the book). This is the same address that Alfred Thomas and Caroline Ann Chaplin are at from 1919 Electoral Register onwards up until 1935 (those viewable on Ancestry anyway). Alfred Thomas' date of birth is listed on the 1939 Register as 27 April 1888 (the Alfred Thomas Vehicle Builder has birth date of 18 Feb 1882). The birth registered in 1888 with MMN of Bradford would tie in with the 1888 Alfred Thomas on the 1939 Register and the same date is on Alfred's baptism on 29 July 1895 at Walham Green when he was baptised with his siblings James, William and Rosa, their father being listed as a Cab Driver.
Its interesting you say that Alfred's family say his wife threw him out because he remained at 74 Wardo Avenue and it was Caroline and the children who appear to have moved elsewhere as Caroline only shows there on the Electoral Registers up until 1935.
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