Hitting a dead end with great grandfathers parents and ancestors??

[celticwarrior]

Hi all,

I am currently researching my great grandfather but unfortunately I have hit a dead end with his parents.

His name was Alfred Day (B. 30.6.1891 in Deptford, Middlesex, England) and he was a soldier in Canada in WW1. On his attestation papers his next of kin is listed as a Mrs Margaret Day but I can't find anything to say this is his mother and later on his next of kin is listed as Joannah Spencer who was his wife.

Hopefully the attachment of his attestation paper has come through properly.

Thank you in advance for any information!

[CaroleW]

Do you have a copy of his marriage cert?  What was his fathers name and occupation?

Marriages March qtr 1918   
Alfred Day/Joanna Spencer    Greenwich 1d   1847      
 

[celticwarrior]

Do you have a copy of his marriage cert?  What was his fathers name and occupation?

Marriages March qtr 1918   
Alfred Day/Joanna Spencer    Greenwich 1d   1847   

unfortunately I don't have a copy. Would this be in any archives?

[louisa maud]

I can't see a date attestation were dated, have you checked the 1911 census  for his address

Louisa  Maud

[Neale1961]

1911 census has Alfred Day (labourer) age 20, born Deptford, Kent living with parents and siblings in Deptford.
Parents Albert (house builder & painter) and Elizabeth married 21 years, both born Deptford.
children: Alfred 20, Jane 14, Elizabeth 9, Charles 6, Florence 3.

The same family in 1901 census also has a child Phillip age 7

[celticwarrior]

I can't see a date attestation were dated, have you checked the 1911 census  for his address

Louisa  Maud

The attestation papers were dated 5/9/1914.

The 1911 census puts him as living at 3 Andom Terrace, Church Street, Deptford, London, but I am not entirely sure that this is the correct census.

[louisa maud]

Neale, so far I have the same census

LM

[Neale1961]

Registration for those children (from census) in Greenwich district have mother's maiden name as HERSEY.

Marriage of Albert DAY (25 labourer) and Elizabeth Jane HERSEY (21 spinster)
15 March 1891 at St Nicholas Deptford
Address for both is 4 Deptford green.
His father – William George DAY(Labourer, deceased)
Her father – Charles HERSEY (Butcher, deceased)

[Neale1961]

I would recommend checking the marriage cert. for Albert Day to Joanna Spencer in 1918 to check for father’s names.