William F Halliday and Nellie Lever

[louisa maud]

Gone are the days when I could order a cert in London on Tuesday and it would arrive Friday or Saturday
Interesting there  is an admin for Violet Lilly Holliday nee Philpott 1984, but no next of kin mentioned, foiled again, yes a cert would solve something one way or  other and I believe the originator is going to order the cert, hopefully he will let us know the outcome, so often people don't

Happy Hunting

Louisa Maud

[anglosaxton56]

Thank you.
I have spoken to my friend and she can confirm that William F Halliday was known as Fred so the F stands for Frederick. There is a William Frederick Halliday born in Kent. In the 1901 census he is aged 2 and living with his parents William and Sarah in Minster, Kent. My friend phoned her sister and she recalled that the hallidays were from kent and Thanet was place name she remembered.

Thank you too to the person who mentioned the surname Sanger. Nellie divorced William and remarried a Sanger so now the only remaining thing is who is NELLIE LEVER. I guess I will not find out until I buy the cert.
Thanks

[Cas (stallc)]

See reply #23 but marriage cert needed to confirm

Cas

[avm228]

Yes, you’ve already been given good info on Nellie upthread - born 12 Feb 1901 per baptism register.

Birthdate is just one day out on Nellie’s death registration:

Nellie Emma Sanger b “13” Feb 1901, death reg Dec qtr 1987 Warminster.

[louisa maud]

Just found William Frederick  2 on 1901, also brother Edward aged 4 months plus  George born Dec 1901, all born Thanet, mother's maiden name is Collins, Sarah Elizabeth

Louisa Maud

[Annette7]

So, at the moment, the prime candidate for 'William F.' is the man I described earlier i.e. William Frederick b.1899 Thanet - he was baptised 19/3/1899 Minster which also fits with his birthdate of 4/2/1899 and from the latter we know he was in the Royal Navy.

However, he definitely wasn't dead before 1953 as his granddaughter believes.   Perhaps it was something she was told as he was 'out of the picture' so to speak.   He didn't die until 1990.

Annette

[anglosaxton56]

I have spent time looking at Emma Levers as this was Nellies middle name and may have struck the jackpot.

In the 1901 census there is a family living in Wiltshire Husband George HB Lever and his wife Emma. In the home are their children all named EXCEPT for a one month old daughter who is listed as Lever only, unnamed at the time. This must be her???

[louisa maud]

Hopefully you have cracked it Annette, it is quite possible because there was a possible divorce that William wasn't spoken about, a huge shame but we cannot change history

Louisa Maud

[jonw65]

It looks like, from what has already been stated, that Nellie had a daughter in 1943 initially registered in name of Halliday but later amended to Sanger - Nellie (as Nellie E) Halliday remarried to Charles Sanger Jun.1945 Sturminster.

She is in fact indexed under both surnames at the time, both printed in the births index, Sep '43.
There seems to have been a later re-registration (in 1961) and that is retrospectively noted by hand at the foot of the appropriate page in the previous quarter in 1943. Presumably she was born in that quarter and her birth had been registered in the next.