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Trying to trace any information about my Grandfather Harry Gordon Glenster
The only data that I have,is on my father's birth certificate,1914,wife Elizabeth,and that his occupation as Accountant

Location?

.............and your father's name?

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915

Name: Maurice G Glenster
Mother's Maiden Name: Jobbins
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1914
Registration district: Richmond
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 2a
Page: 1065 (click to see others on page)


Use freebmd to look for the marriage of the parents

Seems there was an older child.................

1911 census

Person: GLENSTER, Elizabeth Jane Address: 4 Mimosa St Fulham S W

HEATHE, Helen Maude Head Widow F 36 1875 Dressmaker Bermondsey VIEW
GLENSTER, Elizabeth Jane Sister Married3 years F 32 1879 Dressmaker Camberwell VIEW
EVANS, Alfred Edward Nephew Single M 9 1902 Chelsea VIEW
EVANS, Queenie Violet Niece F 4 1907 Fulham VIEW
GLENSTER, Phillip Gordon Nephew M 1 1910 Fulham VIEW
ROBERTS, Louisa Boarder Widow F 33 1878 Cook Domestic Buckingham VIEW
HAZELL, Daisy Visitor F 13 1898 Buckingham VIEW RG number: RG14 Piece: 345 Reference: RG14PN345 RG78PN11 RD3 SD5 ED8 SN132 Registration District: Fulham Sub District: South Fulham Enumeration District: 8 Parish: Fulham

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2006

Name: Philip Gordon Glenster
Birth Date: 10 Sep 1909
Date of Registration: Jan 1992
Age at Death: 82
Registration district: Wandsworth
Inferred County: London
Volume: 15
Page: 1390

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921

Name: Helen Maude Jobbins
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1872
Age: 26
Spouse Name: William John Heath
Spouse Age: 31
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 14 Feb 1898
Parish: Chelsea St Luke
Borough: Kensington and Chelsea
Father Name: Charles John Jobbins
Spouse Father Name: John Heath
Register Type: Parish Register

If your father's parents married, it wasn't in England or Wales

There is no record on Ancestry of the existence of Harry.........

No marriage record on Scotlands People, nor births or deaths for surname Glenster.
Glenster would appear to be a very uncommon surname - has it been corrupted from the more common Glenister and its variations?

Another Glenster/Jobbins child

Glenster, Henry RG b Sep Qtr 1917 London, Chelsea 1A 462

This is interesting:

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
about Henry Raymond Gordon Glenster
Name: Henry Raymond Gordon Glenster
Probate Date: 15 May 1944
Death Date: 12 Jan 1944
Death Place: London, England
Registry: Oxfordshire, England

Probate to Elizabeth Jane Putnam wife of John Seabrook Putnam

and this marriage:

Marriages Jun 1922
Jobbins Elizabeth J Putman Fulham 1a 823
PUTNAM John S Jobbins Fulham 1a

It looks as if Reggie was right, and Elizabeth never married Harry.

The will would be worth getting.

Edit - just seen Stuart's post with the birth of the Henry in 1917 - so this would be Elizabeth's son. In that case, the marriage cert should show if she was a widow.

Would seem Elizabeth was born earlier than 1879
Name: Elizabeth Jane Jobbins
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1875
Registration district: St Saviour Southwark
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1d
Page: 125

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Name: Alfred Edward Jobbins
Record Type: Baptism
Baptism Date: 30 Sep 1903
Mother's name: Elizabeth Jane Jobbins
Parish or Poor Law Union: Chelsea St Luke
Borough: Kensington and Chelsea
Register Type: Parish Registers

born 22.2.1901 illigitimate

Seems to be the Alfred Edward EVANS listed on the 1911 census as nephew

Alfred Edward Jobbins
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1902
Registration district: Chelsea
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1a
Page: 408

would appear the dob was a year out on the baptism record

The other Evans child from the 1911?:

Births Jun 1906 (>99%)
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Evans Queenie Violet Fulham 1a 366

That will would appear to be the son born in 1917.

Deaths Mar 1944
Glenster Henry R G 27 Chelsea 1a 468

Name: Maurice G Glenster
Birth Date: abt 1915
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1941
Age at Death: 26
Registration district: Bromley
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 2a
Page: 1677


Name: Maurice G Glenster
Spouse Surname: Syms
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1938
Registration district: Portsmouth
Inferred County: Southampton
Volume Number: 2b
Page Number: 1466
Find Spouse: Monica A Syms


Name: Monica A Glenster
Spouse Surname: Allison
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1943
Registration district: Portsmouth
Inferred County: Southampton
Volume Number: 2b
Page Number: 971
Find Spouse: George E Allison

Births Sep 1918
Syms Monica A Wright Portsmouth 2b 794

Hi Peter

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