Hector David McArthur Wilson CLACHER - what happened to him

[NDRFT]

Hi Everyone
Mods - can you link this to Essex and maybe USA/Michigan please where we know this man had links.

Essentially I am looking for his death /burial / re marriage - anything but he is so elusive after 1932. There are 2 CLACHER families from Dunbartonshire and so I shall list what we know, which I hope may help one of you good folk help me find out what happened to Hector.
We think in or after 1932 he may have returned to the USA without his wife and family?

B - 19 Jan 1898 Dumbarton
1901 - 10 Rochead Place, Dumbarton with parents
4 June 1918 - RAF
10 Oct 1921 m - Dumbarton to Catherine CAMPBELL
1922 - Dumbarton - daughter Bernadette Maria CLACHER born
11 Aug 1922 Departs Glasgow for USA
19 Aug 1922 Arrives Canada
21 Aug 1922 Arrives Michigan USA
16 Mar 1923 wife and daughter depart Glasgow for Canada en route to Detroit
1924 Detroit - daughter Catherine Campbell CLACHER born
1927 Detroit daughter Gloria Ann CLACHER (aka Annie) born
1928 Detroit son James Paul CLACHER (aka Sonny) born
2 Oct 1930 Departs Montreal
10 Oct 1930 Arrives Liverpool
1932 Dumbarton son Daniel Campbell CLACHER born

then nothing

1939 - registers show wife (married) and 4 children in Hornchurch, Essex - No Hector

Hector did work for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit and possibly in Essex.

His wife and children frequently traveled between Dumbarton and Detroit until 1932.

His mother moved to Detroit after 1939 and died there as did some of his children. Therefore we assume strong links continued in Detroit after the family came back to UK in 1932

His wife is buried in Dumbarton D;6 March 1967

Any suggestions please?

Thank you for taking the time to have a read

NDRFT

[ev]

There is a Hector Clacher , tenent , house 92 West Bridgend Dumbarton , on the Valuation Rolls 1935.


ev

[rosie99]

Does his wife have an occupation in 1939 other than the 'normal' married womens one of Unpaid Domestic that would infer she was financially supporting herself and the family.

If he was in the RAF earlier perhaps he rejoined for WW2 in which case he would not be on the 1939 register.

What information does Catherines death certificate give

[DonM]

Rosie...Wife is listed as Married to Hector... informant was son Daniel

He didn't die in Michigan under the given name Hector; could be David I see nothing on SP, or UKBMD except for a David. If she was buried then perhaps he is with her.

Nothing in the British Newspaper Archives for her or him but then there are many local/weekly papers they do not cover.  Perhaps someone who has access to the US Newspapers mind find mention of him in Wayne County.

Don

[NDRFT]

Rosie
Wife is Unpaid domestic
He was in the RAF at the end of WW1 but did not serve in WW2 - by then he was a reserved occ skilled worker for Ford - according to family folklore. The informant on the death cert was the father of the guy I am helping with this.Thank you for your suggestion / questions

ev
that's new - thank you

DonM - thank you We don't think its him as David because the preceding data for that David takes us to the other CLACHER family at least so far !!!

Thank you for looking each of you

[ShaunJ]

Have you seen the David MW Clacher in Burgess Hill, Sussex in 1939. Date of birth 19 Nov 1898. an electrical engineer.

[NDRFT]

Hi Shaun
Yes and spent loads of time discounting him - thats the 2nd CLACHER family.
Thank you

[Kloumann]

Daniel's death 2001, Southend

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZF-Y126

[Kloumann]

Presumably, the daughter's marriage in 1949 Southend?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVD4-BXBD