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Fred Fuller 1905 prob West Ham/ Leyton/ W'Stow

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chrissiex

chrissiex Report 22 Dec 2009 16:20

Hello Rich. Wait just a minute while I pat myself on the back for the 'Phersons' lol.

I think a subscription to FMP now includes the 1911 so Barbara isn't spending money directly but FMP is keeping an eye on how many searches she does so she is still being kind.

To find who is in a household with someone without paying you have to use the "living with" search. The problem with common names is that when you search for example for all Fullers living with Frank Fuller in West Ham you get people in more than one household because there is more than one Frank Fuller. So to be tricky without paying you have to try for example Frank Fuller living with Ernest Charles Fuller since there is only one of him to see which Frank Fuller it is. And then if it is the right Frank Fuller see who else is living with _them_.

Soooo the Frank Fuller living with Mabel Mary Fuller is the wrong one and the one with Ernest Charles Fuller is Frank William 1903.

Okay, he is living with a Samuel Fuller ... but so is Frank Burnal Fuller 1892! Some fiddling later with the names on the list of people living with a Frank Fuller ... Frank and Samuel are living with an Agnes. That seems to be the sum total of the household, Frank and

FULLER SAMUEL M 1871 40 West Ham Essex
FULLER AGNES F 1881 30 West Ham Essex

So I think he is not your boy.

Edit
_unless_ Frank was living with an uncle or something like. So we do need Barbara after all, lol.

Oh and yes I do think it is quite possible that your Fred/Frank made up his father's middle name to match his own when he married as that sort of thing was quite common. The other possibility is that he made up his father altogether, lol, since that was quite common too. But in this case we do seem to know that his mother was married before to Mr Fuller.

Rich

Rich Report 22 Dec 2009 18:46

in my tiredness the beginnings of the post whereby the family lore said freds father was dead in 1905/6 has been forgotten. If this is true and fred wasnt with mum could he have been in some institution or with relatives of other side- or was he just being babysat by a friend???

Rich

Barbara

Barbara Report 22 Dec 2009 19:03

1911 census transcription details for: 140 Mortlake Road
National Archive Reference:
RG14PN9486 RG78PN508 RD188 SD4 ED16 SN82

Reg. District: West Ham Sub District: Canning Town
Parish: West Ham Enum. District: 16
Address: 140 Mortlake Road
County: Essex
Name Relation Condition/
Yrs married Sex Age Birth
Year Occupation Where Born
FULLER, Samuel Head Married M 40 1871 Bricklayer Kingsland London
FULLER, Agnes Wife Married
14 years F 30 1881 Bexley Heath Kent
FULLER, Samuel Son Single M 10 1901 School Custom House Essex
FULLER, Henry Son Single M 8 1903 School Custom House Essex
FULLER, Frank Son Single M 5 1906 School Custom House Essex
FULLER, Albert Son Single M 3 1908 Custom House Essex
FULLER, Frederick Son Single M 1 1910 Custom House Essex

BatMansDaughter

BatMansDaughter Report 22 Dec 2009 20:16

This looks like Harriett in 1901;

1901 England Census
about Harriet Faller
Name: Harriet Faller
Age: 24
Estimated birth year: abt 1877
Relation: Daughter-in-law
Spouse's name: Percy G
Gender: Female
Where born: Cambridgeshire, England

Civil parish: Walthamstow
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
Town: Walthamstow
County/Island: Essex
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation: DRESSMAKER!!!!!

Condition as to marriage: WIDOW!!!!

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: West Ham
Sub-registration district: Walthamstow
ED, institution, or vessel: 41
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 15
Household Members: Name Age
Henry Faller 43 BOOK SELLER & NEWS AGENTS ASISSTANT!!!
Eleanor Faller 44
John A Faller 19
Percy G Faller 13
Harriet Faller 24
Albert H Faller 2 GRANDSON!!!

Obviously Percy G is not Harriets husband


These 3 should be on the next family;
Tom Spicer 19
William Spicer 16
Caroline E Evans 45




Dee x

BatMansDaughter

BatMansDaughter Report 22 Dec 2009 20:23

1891 England Census
about William H Fuller
Name: William H Fuller
Age: 12
Estimated birth year: abt 1879
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Henry
Mother's Name: Eleanor T
Gender: Male
Where born: Pentonville, London, England

Civil parish: Walthamstow
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
County/Island: Essex
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: West Ham
Sub-registration district: Walthamstow
ED, institution, or vessel: 29
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Henry Fuller 35 Book sellers asisstant
Eleanor T Fuller 35
William H Fuller 12
Annie E Fuller 11
John A Fuller 9
Susan F Fuller 5
Percival G Fuller 3


So I think we can now assume that Harriet met someone before George Mcpherson and that is where Frederick/ Frank comes from.... so did Fred/Frank have his fathers surname to begin with???

Dee x

BatMansDaughter

BatMansDaughter Report 22 Dec 2009 20:32

1911;

HOUSEHOLD FULLER HENRY M 1856 55 West Ham Essex (NEWSAGENT)
HOUSEHOLD FULLER PERCIVAL GEORGE M 1887 24 West Ham Essex
HOUSEHOLD FULLER SUSAN F 1885 26 West Ham Essex
HOUSEHOLD FULLER ELEANOR F 1856 55 West Ham Essex


Not sure who else is living with the family............. but we've found your Newsagent!!!



Dee x

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 22 Dec 2009 20:36

That certainly does look like Harriet. This is the only birth to fit for an Albert H Fuller

Births Dec 1897 (>99%)
Fuller Albert Henry Lewisham 1d 1184

but he would have been 3 in the 1901 census. And it says he was born in Walthamstow.

And the image actually says Albert E not H. So

Births Mar 1898 (>99%)
Fuller Albert Edward W. Ham 4a 20

NO wait I take back my back pat that was the wrong Albert in 1901 I was looking at. He is Albert H but still orn in Walthamstow, so maybe the age 2 is just inaccurate.

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 22 Dec 2009 20:45

So maybe he did make up a father after all when he married or at least someone had made him up for him at some point. 'Killed in the war' is very convenient as long as nobody goes asking which war, lol.

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 22 Dec 2009 20:59

Also living with Henry and Eleanor Fuller in 1911

FARRANT ELEANOR FLORANCE F 1909 2 West Ham Essex

granddaughter. Interesting.

But no not interesting.

Marriages Jun 1907 (>99%)
FARRANT Richard W. Ham 4a 330
FULLER Annie Eleanor W.Ham 4a 330 >> She is a daughter in the 1891 census

Births Sep 1908 (>99%)
Farrant Ellinor Florence Sevenoaks 2a 851

BatMansDaughter

BatMansDaughter Report 22 Dec 2009 21:07

Still can't see Fred/Frank in 1911 though!!!

It does look like his fathers name got muddled along the way.... well his wifes husband anyway. I have an ancestor who listed their Grandfather as their father on their marriage cert and gave his proffesion.... yep you guessed it he was illegitimate!

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 22 Dec 2009 21:26

That certainly happened a lot, grandfather was one of the common people named as father on marriage certificates.

Do you know what I would bet is Fred/Frank just took the 'George' from his stepfather for his father's name and possibly for his own name as well.

I don't think Rich has ever told us something I asked before, whether Fred/Frank in fact was reared by his mother and stepfather McP.

BatMansDaughter

BatMansDaughter Report 22 Dec 2009 21:32

And we could really do with knowing Fred/Franks DOB.... it would help to narrow it down.... still can't get my head around that mixture of a shortened name.

I wonder what happened to Albert H born 1899?? Can't see a death.

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 22 Dec 2009 21:52

MCPHERSON FREDERICK WILLIAM M 1902 9 Shoreditch London

The couple he is living with are too young to have children the age of the older ones

MCPHERSON FREDERICK JAMES M 1889 22 Shoreditch London
MCPHERSON JOSEPHINE MAY F 1890 21 Shoreditch London
MCPHERSON CLARA WINIFRED F 1903 8 Shoreditch London
MCPHERSON MARGARET EDITH F 1906 5 Shoreditch London
MCPHERSON MALCOLNE WALTER LEONARD M 1911 2 MONTHS Shoreditch London

Marriages Sep 1910
McClur_ Josephine M Islington 1b 667
McPherson Frederick J Islington 1b 667

Births Jun 1901 ???
McPHERSON Frederick William Holborn 1b 699


This looks like our George McP in 1891 and he doesn't have a brother Frederick James

Name: George C Mc Pherson
Age: 3
Estimated birth year: abt 1888
Relation: Son
Father's Name: George
Mother's Name: Harriet M A
Gender: Male
Where born: Walthamstow, Essex, England

Civil parish: Walthamstow
Ecclesiastical parish: St Stephen
County/Island: Essex

Household Members:
Name Age
George Mc Pherson 35
Harriet M A Mc Pherson 30
Harriet R Mc Pherson 6 >>> editing: she is Harriet Rose McP witness at Fuller-McP marriage
Margaret J Mc Pherson 4
George C Mc Pherson 3
Alfred R Mc Pherson 1


I don't think those McPs in the 1911 lead to anything but it is always useful to investigate any possibilities and then discard them, lol.

I would really bet that George was not truly Fred/Frank's real second name and he used it only because of his stepfather being George.

BatMansDaughter

BatMansDaughter Report 22 Dec 2009 22:03

I tend to agree with you, George added to his name in respect of his Stepfather....

So Fred/Frank is not with the Fuller Grandparents (wouldn't be his natural G Parents, so he wouldn't be) He's not with the Phillips G Parents (they've died)....... so whoever Fred/Franks father is maybe have him in their family??? That's one very small needle in a very large haystack!!!!

Rich we REALLY need Fred/Franks DOB.......... I can't think of anyway forward until we know this can you Bruce?


Dee x

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 22 Dec 2009 22:08

Dee it was remiss of me to forget to say 'brill find' for the 1891 and 1901 Fullers too.

I looked back at this one in 1911

FULLER FREDERIC GEORGE M 1906 5 West Ham Essex

(that is how it is spelled in the GRO index too, one of my great-grandfathers was registered that way but always spelled it Frederick)

to see whether the adult George in the household (married in 1904) might be a brother of William H Fuller but no. In 1881

Henry Fuller 25 >> bookseller's assistant
Eleanor J. Fuller 25
William H. Fuller 2
Annie E. Fuller 1
Annie M. Bowden 28

If we knew whether Fred/Frank's father really was Fuller then this Fuller tracing would be more worthwhile!

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 22 Dec 2009 22:10

For Fred/Frank's DOB without his birth certificate ... a vicious circle that ... what about his death?? If before 1971 it would have at least his age, if after it should have his DOB. _If_ it was known to the person who gave it, and if what they 'knew' was correct ...

Rich do you know when and where he died?

BatMansDaughter

BatMansDaughter Report 22 Dec 2009 22:17

Bruce..... that's what I'm hoping that it shows a DOB on his death cert... if not Rich's father may know (pretty sure he mentioned his father Vivian??).


This patting yourself on the back stuff is pretty hard going......... ouch... got a crook in me neck now!!!


Dee x

BatMansDaughter

BatMansDaughter Report 22 Dec 2009 22:25

Vivian???? not sure where i got that from...... just looked through both threads and can't see that name!!! You know what that means don't you... hiccuupppp!!! Tooo many xmas drinks!!!!


Sorry Rich.

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 23 Dec 2009 00:48

About that Albert H Fuller who was 2 in 1901. No death in West Ham 1901-1911. No marriage in West Ham to 1930, but then he could have married somewhere else.

Only one likely death later:

Name: Albert Henry Fuller
Birth Date: 27 Sep 1897
Death Registration Month/Year: 1979
Registration district: Tonbridge
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 16
Page: 2455

who looks very much like the birth I put above

Births Dec 1897 (>99%)
Fuller Albert Henry Lewisham 1d 1184

and is not likely our Albert H Fuller. I wonder whether he was grandson to Henry and Eleanor but not the son of William and Harriet.

The other two AH Fullers at the CWGC site can be ruled out, one has different parents, I found the other's marriage and he was Arthur, but I wonder about this one although if ours was 2 in 1901 he would have been 17 in 1916 but maybe just turned 18

Name: FULLER, ALBERT H.
Initials: A H
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment/Service: London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
Unit Text: 1st/5th Bn.
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Service No: 1986
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 9 D.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

chrissiex

chrissiex Report 23 Dec 2009 01:22

Regarding whose son Albert H Fuller in 1901 was

Harriet Fuller sister of William H Fuller married Leonard Emblem in 1902 and in 1911

EMBLEM HARRIET ELEANOR F 1879 32 West Ham Essex
EMBLEM LEONARD EDWARD M 1879 32 West Ham Essex
and three children born 1903-1910

so it looks like she was the mother of Albert H Fuller. It makes most sense that Harriet Phillips Fuller was. But if so where is he in 1911 too?

Very annoying people Rich, lol.