Driver in RAMC

[3hounds]

This is not a definite but there are 3 James Farrells RAMC on the SWB list but just 1 attesting as early as 1903.
He is Pte. 3068 att. 9/12/03 & discharged 23/7/15 (wounds).
He went overseas at the outbreak of war (20/8/14) with 14 Field Ambulance, 14th. Brigade, 5th. Div.
All circumstantial of course but looks a distinct possibility.
There is no other information.

I put this up earlier so it's possible they came back together & married & then he joined the army if it's him of course.
Have you found James in the UK on any census?

Thank you so much!
No. Unfortunately I haven’t !

[jim1]

I take it his father's name of Patrick was taken from his marriage.
The reason I ask is that I was drawn to an 1881 entry for a James Farrell b.1877 Salford living with his Grandmother Jane Mulholland. There is a marriage in 1873 for a Sarah Mulholland & on the same page a Bernard Farrell.
Jane died in 1887 meaning James was now orphaned aged 10/11.
A common name of course so might not be him.
The only James with father Patrick I can see wasn't orphaned.

[3hounds]

I take it his father's name of Patrick was taken from his marriage.
The reason I ask is that I was drawn to an 1881 entry for a James Farrell b.1877 Salford living with his Grandmother Jane Mulholland. There is a marriage in 1873 for a Sarah Mulholland & on the same page a Bernard Farrell.
Jane died in 1887 meaning James was now orphaned aged 10/11.
A common name of course so might not be him.
The only James with father Patrick I can see wasn't orphaned.

Aaah! Thank you for your efforts. I don’t think I ever found a census with James and a father of Patrick.
I took the names Mary Ellen white and John William white from James and Edith’s marriage cert as the witnesses and found them living with an older lady, ‘mother in law’, Ann Farrell on the 1901 census. I found a census record decades earlier , 1971, in Manchester, showing a Patrick Farrell, a sawyer, living with wife Ann. Patrick was born in Ireland and Ann from Manchester.
I therefore think his parents are Patrick and Ann and sister is Mary. But didn’t ever find them during the years between or on the 1911

[jim1]

You might need to get James' marriage cert.

[3hounds]

You might need to get James' marriage cert.

Do you mean Patrick? I don’t know Anns maiden name so don’t know which is theirs. I have James and Edith’s marriage cert

[jim1]

So you have James' marriage cert. stating father Patrick.

[3hounds]

So you have James' marriage cert. stating father Patrick.

Yes. Patrick, a sawyer, deceased.
Witnesses were Mary Ellen White and John William White

[CaroleW]

John William White married Mary Ellen Farrell 1898 Manchester.  Marriage on www.lancashirebmd.org uk shows it as registrar attended so marriage cert would have to be purchased

[CaroleW]

I think Patrick Farrell married Ann Egan in 1870

1871 has them as boarders

Patrick 22 b Ireland
Ann 19 b Manchester

RG19/4053/15/23

Cannot find any Farrell/Egan births on GRO index up to 1880