Mr Jagger's Son-in-law. Radiologist at Bradford Royal Infirmary - 1929

[mckha489]

This post relates to this one https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=815065.msg6762269#msg6762269 but I don't think there is anything on that thread that is pertinent to this query.

William JAGGER  born 21 March 1830
baptised at Halifax 11th February 1834.  parents Benjamin a coal miner, and Anne


25 August 1855 he married Sarah ASQUITH at Halifax.

5th July 1856 Alice Jagger born at Brow Lane, Shelf - I cannot find a death for her. Nor can I see her in any subsequent census.  It may be she died in the United States. because -

1861 the family must be in Pennsylvania as son Albert Asquith JAGGER was born there about that year (11th October according to his 1939 record)

7 December 1865 Ida Florence JAGGER was born. Her precise place of birth varies with the censuses, but it was near Bradford and she was baptised at Shelf - age 15 in 1881.


1871 Birkenshaw, St Paul, East Bierley
William 41   all indexed on Ancestry as SAGGER
Sarah 36
Albert 9
Ida F 5.     

1881  47 Cemetery Road, Manningham, Bradford
family as above. but 10 years older. Albert is a School Teacher and Ida is a pupil teacher

1891 47 Cemetery Road, Manningham
all as above 10 years older.

1901  47 Cemetery Road
William is 71 and is now widowed
Albert 39 is a farm manager
Ida 35 now presumably keeping house, but no occupation noted.

1911 the three of them are in Skelton in Cleveland. Albert is the Farm Bailiff
1921 they have moved to Colston Bassett. (Albert & Ida’s ages 10 years out for some reason) Albert is an Estate manager. He retired from that position in May 1937, and he and Ida (William having died in 1933 age 102)  must have moved back to Yorkshire. Where Ida died 16 September 1939, and Albert died in 1946

In 1929 there were various reports about William approaching his 100th birthday
and in one it says

“Mr Jagger’s son-in-law is a radiologist at the Bradford Royal Infirmary and the son with whom he lives is now a farmer, and was formerly a teacher under the Bradford Education Authority”
So - Who is the son-in-law? and who is the daughter he is married to?

I have found a couple of radiologists in the newspapers but haven’t managed to link them to the family.

[Kay99]

Just in case this is relevant

4 July 1928 Leeds Mercury

The  new Raduim Therapy Dept at Bradford Royal Infirmary is to be placed under the charge of of specialist Dr Frank Edward Chester- Williams of the Radium Institute of London  - He qualified in 1924

[mckha489]

Just in case this is relevant

4 July 1928 Leeds Mercury

The  new Raduim Therapy Dept at Bradford Royal Infirmary is to be placed under the charge of of specialist Dr Frank Edward Chester- Williams of the Radium Institute of London  - He qualified in 1924

He married (age 30) in 1931 to Dorothy Mary Wood (age 24). he was a bachelor.  his father Edward Chester - Williams and hers Thomas Jason Wood, a surgeon.

[jaywit]

I would say that just because the newspaper report said something it doesn't mean it was true.

Could have been a garbled reply from William Jagger or a reporter's mistake.

[mckha489]

I would say that just because the newspaper report said something it doesn't mean it was true.

Could have been a garbled reply from William Jagger or a reporter's mistake.

Yes - that's my inclination but it seems SO specific. And it has the occupations of the other son perfectly.  I am inclined to think he is not a son-in-law exactly. But some other sort of relation.

[jaywit]

I would say that just because the newspaper report said something it doesn't mean it was true.

Could have been a garbled reply from William Jagger or a reporter's mistake.

Yes - that's my inclination but it seems SO specific. And it has the occupations of the other son perfectly.  I am inclined to think he is not a son-in-law exactly. But some other sort of relation.

I imagine that the son he lived with was present at the interview so the reporter would have asked him directly about his occupation so it would be correct.

[glenclare]

Do you know for sure that Alice went with the family to America?

[mckha489]

Do you know for sure that Alice went with the family to America?

No I don’t. But I haven’t found any sign of her otherwise.