Hello Steve
The birth registration for your Sydney W Atkinson, 1922, Peterbro' registration district has the mother's maiden as Goodley.
The only marriage between a Sydney Atkinson and a Goodley, anytime anywhere, is the one in Dec 1/4 1903 Peterbro' registration district for Sydney Graves Atkinson and Gertrude Alice Goodley.
This is the couple on the 1911 census Sydney snr age 32, his wife Gertrude 26 living at 15 Mill Hill Road March Cambridgeshire with their children Sydney W age 7, Laura M age 3 and Gertrude A age 5 months.
According to FreeBMD they had 5 more children 1913, 1915, 1917, 1920 and then Sydney 1922 all in the N Wiitchford registration district which includes March.
My point is that in the 1911 census they have a child Sydney William, age 7, so why would they give another son born 1922 the name Sydney also? It was quite common for parents to give a child the same name as a child who had died but in this case I can't see a death for a S*dney W Atkinson between 1911 and 1922 anywhere in England and Wales.
So why two children of the same name registered to this couple?
Do let us know the result of the search of the newspaper archives.
Christina
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Thread: Sydney W Atkinson, of Inverness.
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04-10-2015, 9:40 AM #11Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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04-10-2015, 10:36 AM #12
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If you look on the Inverness Courier'sweb site and search Syd Atkinson, you will find he was Movements Manager, Highland Division, B R Scotland. He also seemed to write a regular column in the paper.
Hope this helps.
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04-10-2015, 1:25 PM #13
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Grisel, you're a star, thank you!!
The newspaper archives got me one result, which I already have.
It is also a coincidence that Lilian and Avis (my step-nan) grew up in March, Cambridgeshire. Could be they were neighbours??
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12-11-2015, 3:32 PM #14
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I used to work with Lilian in Inverness and as a result got to know Syd quite well. I recall Lillian mentioning March. Syd was a larger than life sort of chap and had a high profile in Inverness. When he retired he enhanced this profile by becoming a disk jockey on Moray Firth Radio. I think his specialism was jazz or similar.
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12-11-2015, 3:51 PM #15
Commenting on #11, I have seen families with 2 living children with the same forename, one of whom would be known by their second name, or even a nickname (Jamie and James, Hugh Beg and Hugh Ban (Big Hugh and Little Hugh, etc). In the cases I remember, it usually happened when the name occurred twice among the parents & grandparent (and in one case a living ggfather). There was quite a lot of pressure to call a child after the appropriate person in an earlier generation!
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12-11-2015, 4:46 PM #16Sue Mackay
Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids
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12-11-2015, 4:53 PM #17
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Oh my word!! Private message me please.
My step grandmother Avis, Lillian's sister, is still alive and I knew Lillian and Syd well. Lillian was born in Peterborough but they grew up at 43 Deerfield Road in March. I do recall Syd was known in Scotland and highly regarded.
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