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probate and wills
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Josephine | Report | 18 Jan 2013 15:13 |
HeyJudeB4Beatles - finally got around to looking up your suggestion re my grandfather being born in Northampton - got through several hours of record searching only to find in 1911 census that he had a different middle name grrrrrr!!!! the joys of family history I guess!!! |
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Gee | Report | 23 Aug 2012 16:49 |
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Josephine | Report | 23 Aug 2012 15:53 |
Thanks Gins - I have already started looking at some of these- just a matter of finding spare hours to go through them all - really appreciate your's and everyone's help |
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Gee | Report | 23 Aug 2012 15:21 |
Searching for deaths from 1897 - 1917 for his father brings these up (thats if he really was dead at the time of Johns first marriage!) these |
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Josephine | Report | 23 Aug 2012 15:18 |
HeyJudeB4Beatles - thanks for that - could be the one!!!! will be strange if it is as I now live in Northamptonshire!! but I will have a look at it. at the time I was looking at military records I didnt have his father's name so couldnt link the nok.......... |
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Gee | Report | 23 Aug 2012 15:07 |
Oh gawed, I was hoping he had a more unusual occupation! |
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HeyJudeB4Beatles | Report | 23 Aug 2012 15:03 |
On the military record nok is Elizabeth and he joined up in Northampton I think |
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Josephine | Report | 23 Aug 2012 15:01 |
Gins - his first marriage was to Dorothy Ada Sawyer, he was listed as a soldier - I have tried unsuccessfully to find his Army record. they were living in Edon or Eldon Street in Reading and his father was listed as deceased and a pipe layer. the witnesses were Rosetta and Annie Pearson. |
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Gee | Report | 23 Aug 2012 14:46 |
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Josephine | Report | 23 Aug 2012 14:37 |
Thanks everyone for your responses - I have his marriage certificates (he married twice) which names his father, who was deceased at the time of his first marriage in 1917 -and his death certificate - but cant find his birth - and as I know to my cost there are so many Wrights and almost as many John Wrights and Charles wrights -the will and probate idea is me clutching at straws!!! - but I have to go down Sevenoaks way next week so thought it might be worth trying to find out some more info while I am there |
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K | Report | 23 Aug 2012 13:18 |
These threads list the father's name as the same as the son's but I think Jo's tree on Ancestry lists the father as Charles Thomas. |
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K | Report | 23 Aug 2012 13:10 |
Other connected threads |
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MarieCeleste | Report | 23 Aug 2012 12:54 |
You know from his death record that he was born 1897, have you looked for possible births that correspond? |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 23 Aug 2012 12:51 |
?? but not at the end of the year |
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Gee | Report | 23 Aug 2012 12:48 |
Hi Jo |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 23 Aug 2012 12:46 |
On Genealogy Chat there are a couple of threads about obtaining wills - one by Jonesey |
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Josephine | Report | 23 Aug 2012 12:42 |
I am (still) trying to trace my maternal grandfather's date and place of birth - John Thomas Wright - and thought I might find some information in his will or probate record - he died in Sevenoaks and his death was registered in Tonbridge in 1966 - I have his death certificate. Probate records online only seem to go up to 1966 and as he died towards the end of the year, his is not listed. can anyone suggest the best place for me to go to find his will or probate record? and also is he more likely to have been buried in Sevenoaks if he died there? any help gratefully accepted. |