Any tips for unlocking a dead end?

[Vickihuk]

Hello

I am posting here again as last time you wonderful people helped me unlock some information about an ancestor - I would never have found it otherwise.

I am trying to find parentage of my 3xGrandfather. George Saunderson, born circa 1872 - I thought Liverpool but nothing is coming up at all. He married 3 times:

Elizabeth Ewanson (born Liverpool 1881, married 1899)

Eliza Ann Wise / Dainton (born Crewe, Cheshire 1874, married 1904)

Lillian May Woolfe (my 3 x Grandmother, born 1895, Sevenoaks, married 1915)

I have checked the first 2 x marriage certificates - both named William Saunderson as Father. The 2nd marriage certificate had Eliza Saunderson as a witness, so I wondered if that could be his Mother.

However, I have searched and searched and nothing makes sense.

Please can anyone offer any tips on how I could find out more?

Many thanks

Vicki

[Cas (stallc)]

Is this the first marriage? Father is named as James a soldier

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/2125627:2197

Name   George Saunderson
Marriage Age   27
Birth Year   abt 1872
Marriage Date   8 Oct 1899
Marriage Place   Liverpool, St Philip, Lancashire, England
Father   James Saunderson
Spouse   Elizabeth Florence Ewanson

Cas

[CaroleW]

What is his birthplace on the 1901 & 1911 censuses?  Have you found him on the 1921?

[Vickihuk]

Hi Cas

Yes that was his first marriage. He also recorded James Saunderson, Soldier as his father in his 2nd marriage. But I am not finding any matches (birth, census etc) that relates.

Thanks

Vicki

[CaroleW]

1901 shows him as 29 b Liverpool

[Raybistre]

There is this birth registration:
SAUNDERSON, GEORGE  HENRY      mmn. HARDING     
GRO Reference: 1872  D Quarter in LIVERPOOL  Volume 08B  Page 4

[Vickihuk]

What is his birthplace on the 1901 & 1911 censuses?  Have you found him on the 1921?

Hi, he doesn’t show up in 1911 census and there is no 1921 census. I believe he was a Gunner in the RFA West Lancs Division - so I guess he will have been away at war at the time.

[Vickihuk]

There is this birth registration:
SAUNDERSON, GEORGE  HENRY      mmn. HARDING     
GRO Reference: 1872  D Quarter in LIVERPOOL  Volume 08B  Page 4

I looked into this one and father is showing as John Taggart Saunderson - which goes against the marriage certificate!

[CaroleW]

One of the witnesses to the 1899 marriage was William Rose Saunderson