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27-05-2008, 10:20 AM
After 15 years trying why can’t I find my grandfather..!
All I have is a marriage certificate and the family knowledge that he walked out of the church - and never stopped! That was in 1920 and my father was born 3 weeks later and on his birth certificate his father is shown as a Butler/Servant – both mother and baby are living at grandparents address. My Grandmother married again as a widow 6 years later – but her widowhood is in doubt – as there has been no trace of 1st husbands death anywhere and ‘poor mans divorce’ (bigamy) seems to have been a family tradition. All the information on the marriage certificate has been exhausted. It shows William John Glover’s place of residence as Hamilton Terrace, St John’s Wood, London and father (John) deceased and both occupations as servants in London. William John Glover was born circa 1900 and there are several with the same name on the 1901 census none of which have a father John and the places of birth vary widely thought the country – including Scotland. I know a little of the family he worked for and have even been to see his place of work (now converted into flats). I have ‘posted’ messages on the internet and various other media all to no avail.
When living near London (before retiring and moving five hundred miles away) I spent many hours going through all the births and deaths for William John (and variants of) Glover at the Family Records Centre and also any information at the Kew Archives. The nearest ‘scrap’ of info I have come across is in the 1901 census where a William John Glover was born to Arthur John and Maria Charlotte Glover from West Ham – but the father was a Railway worker not a servant. Could ‘John’ the father a figment of imagination?
Any ideas would be welcome – I’ve run out of them.
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All I have is a marriage certificate and the family knowledge that he walked out of the church - and never stopped! That was in 1920 and my father was born 3 weeks later and on his birth certificate his father is shown as a Butler/Servant – both mother and baby are living at grandparents address. My Grandmother married again as a widow 6 years later – but her widowhood is in doubt – as there has been no trace of 1st husbands death anywhere and ‘poor mans divorce’ (bigamy) seems to have been a family tradition. All the information on the marriage certificate has been exhausted. It shows William John Glover’s place of residence as Hamilton Terrace, St John’s Wood, London and father (John) deceased and both occupations as servants in London. William John Glover was born circa 1900 and there are several with the same name on the 1901 census none of which have a father John and the places of birth vary widely thought the country – including Scotland. I know a little of the family he worked for and have even been to see his place of work (now converted into flats). I have ‘posted’ messages on the internet and various other media all to no avail.
When living near London (before retiring and moving five hundred miles away) I spent many hours going through all the births and deaths for William John (and variants of) Glover at the Family Records Centre and also any information at the Kew Archives. The nearest ‘scrap’ of info I have come across is in the 1901 census where a William John Glover was born to Arthur John and Maria Charlotte Glover from West Ham – but the father was a Railway worker not a servant. Could ‘John’ the father a figment of imagination?
Any ideas would be welcome – I’ve run out of them.
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