I read this post because I suspect name changes of my great grandad and both his first and second wives. I posted about why my grandad was made a ward for state and uk govt coerced him to emigrate to Australia without his family when he age 12. Middlemore emigration home Birmingham to w Australia Fairbridge in 1929.
sorry I'm stealing the post but you said the name was WARD. from looking into our mysterious shady past my grandad was called a Ward, of the state, when he was taken from family in Coventry in 1928, sent to migrate with other alone children to slave formwork in Australia frim age 12 to 21, when the UK charities/companies repatriated him with a few others deemed suicidal by Psychiatrist. unsurprisingly.
I posted asking advice and replies said thought only the 2nd wife will have gave birth to their 7 children. despite purchasing birth certificate of oldest , my grandad, and says his birth mum is name of 1st wife blanche Jean Hallewell, ne kitson. she died age 36 I can't afford her death certificate to see cause of death. death in 1921. my grandad Reginald Stanley Coville Hallewell was 6. whem his mum,, on original birth certificate died . in 1937 his dad was dead and Fairbridge with Middlemore request birth certificate from assumed step mum. she provided one saying she was Reginalds birth mum.
sorry I'm insane to hijack.
