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Thanks <3

Crossing my fingers for you too Jude !!

Dea Xxx

Dea...yes as far as it is possible to enjoy ...I do/did. My dad has had a slight stroke. He is very lucky just a loss of peripheral vision in his right eye. Coming on top of my mum's death last Christmas it was a worry but - fingers crossed - he'll be home this week :-)

Now I AM really confused....

UK - outgoing passengers

Name: George Mead
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Birth Date: abt 1890
Departure Date: 11 Oct 1924
Port of Departure: Southampton, England
Destination Port: Quebec, Canada
Ship Name: Empress of Scotland
Search Ship Database: Search the 'Empress of Scotland' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Canadian Pacific Railway
Official Number: 144376
Master: J Gillies

This one is too young and is a farmer....address he gives is 2 Acre Road Truro

This is the 30A form -

Name: George Henry Mead
Gender: Male
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1888
Birth Place: Truro, England
Age: 36
Date of Arrival: 18 Oct 1924
Port of Arrival: Quebec
Ship Name: Empress of Scotland

One assumes it is the same one who departed two weeks earlier - 2 Acre Road Truro is the address of his wife...but now he is an ENGINEER!!!!!!

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-S

William of Ludgvan is George senior's brother :-)

Jude

Mr G Mead age 16 born @ 1886/7 travelled to Natal on the ship Trent on 6/8/1902 looks as though he could have been a Railway Clerk as the person sated above him on the ships record.

I wonder if he then became a fitter and then an engineer on the railways.

When he went to Canada 6/10/1924 it gives his wife's address and the address of where he is staying in Canada but I can't read it.

Maryb.

Dea, following that one back I think this is him and he is on the 1881 census with father William:

George Mead
Age: 12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1879
Relation: Son
Mother's Name: Ann Mead
Gender: Male
Where born: Ludgvan, Cornwall, England

Civil Parish: Camborne
Ecclesiastical parish: St Martin
County/Island: Cornwall
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration District: Redruth
Sub-registration District: Camborne
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 1850
Folio: 22
Page Number: 37
Household Members: Name Age
Ann Mead 50
William Mead 27
Emma Mead 21
Richard Mead 21
Laura Mead 18
Mary Mead 16
Thomas Mead 14
George Mead 12
Annie Mead 3

Think his birth registered:


George Mead
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1880
Registration District: Penzance
Inferred County: Cornwall
Volume: 5c
Page: 216

So he's already been ruled out - that'll teach me to refresh before posting!!

Enjoy your 'visit' Jude <3 <3

Dea Xxx

Off out now to visit my daddy in hospital .....

The soldier is him...hidden deep inside the 26 pages was place of birth Tregony Cornwall

Dea...this is wife Mary Ann Moss Mead in 1911 with daughter Royal

Name: Annie Mead
Age in 1911: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1885
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Female
Birth Place: St Truro
Civil Parish: Illogan
County/Island: Cornwall
Country: England
Street Address: No 5 East Hill, Tuckingmill, Camborne
Marital Status: Married
Registration District: Redruth
Registration District Number: 299
Sub-registration District: Illogan
ED, institution, or vessel: 5
Household Schedule Number: 50
Piece: 13989
Household Members:
Name Age
Annie Mead 26
Royal Mead 5
Mary Annie Trevton 70

She also appears (as Annie Penrose married) at her parent's house but I suspect this was a red herring. Her mother's maiden name was Trevarton and I think Mary Annie Trevton visitor is actually her grandmother.

Like I say Mead is like a West Country Smith or Jones lol

:-D :-D

It looks like this would be their marriage?

Marriages Dec 1904 (>99%)
Hand Frederick Charles Redruth 5c 441 Scan available - click to view
Maclean Annie Redruth 5c 441 Scan available - click to view
Mead George Redruth 5c 441 Scan available - click to view
Phillips Florence Mary Redruth 5c 441 Scan available - click to view

Dea x

Not sure why but I keep going back to this one ??

1911 census transcription details for: Edward St Tuckingmill
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National Archive Reference:

RG14PN14011 RG78PN834 RD299 SD4 ED12 SN100
Reg. District: Redruth
Sub District: Camborne
Parish: Camborne
Enum. District: 12
Address: Edward St Tuckingmill
County: Cornwall
Name Relation Condition/
Yrs married Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
MEAD, George Head Married M 29 1882 Gas Stoker Cornwall Camborne
MEAD, Annie Wife Married 6 years F 26 1885 Cornwall Camborne
MEAD, Agnes Daughter F 4 1907 Cornwall Camborne

Dea x

P.S. - there is no record of a birth for one in Cornwall anywhere near 1882 ! ??

Dea x

Yes I have looked at them (both) though not in full....I have found him travelling out to Secccondee in December 1910 :-)

It is almost inconceivable that this is not him. He can't have had a very happy marriage - he was never at home ;-) or perhaps that is why the marriage lasted so long! She obviously didn't divorce or remarry!!

I might just invest in the marriage certificate of both him and Royal Annie!

Jude, he didn't join the military in 1902, that is the first year Mary found him travelling. He joined in 1916 active from 1917 according to the military record, and he was already a fitter. It clearly states he has never been in military before. Names the wife and child on his military record - don't know if you can access the record but there are 2, 1 has only 4 pages but the other has over 20.

In 1901 - albeit only 15 - he is an agricultural labourer like his father and his grandfather.......it seems a bit of a jump. But of course if Mary is correct and he joined the military in 1902, then it is possible he became an engineer then.

It's just infuriating that I can't find him in 1911! I suppose though that he could have been overseas.

Chris - thanks - that's definitely him - Louisa's maiden name was Beard.

Jude

Baptism
Day Month 25-Apr
Year 1886
Parish Or Reg District Cornelly
Forename George Henry
Surname MEAD
Sex son
Father Forename Richard
Mother Forename Louisa
Residence Tregony
Father Rank Profession Labourer

Chris :)

http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/

Jude, what is making you doubt the occupation? - if the military record you've found is correct then the occupation engineer or fitter would would agree with it..

Mary thanks

"My" George Henry is almost certainly this one

Name: George Henry Mead
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1885
Registration District: Truro
Inferred County: Cornwall
Volume: 5c
Page: 127

So I have revised his year of birth to 1885!

The other one - registered Redruth is this one

Births Sep 1886 (>99%)

Mead George Henry Redruth 5c 222 Scan available - click to view

but this is why he doesn't feature in censuses

Deaths Mar 1887 (>99%)
Mead George Henry 0 Redruth 5c 196

Am going to have to have a play with this....his occupation didn't sit well with me!

George Henry Mead married 8/4/1905 of 2,St Clements Cottage
On his Army papers he was also at 2, St Clements Cottage and he was an Engineer.

This George henry was in Seccondee Ghana as a Fitter/Engineer returns 23/1/1912 went 12/6/1912,he seems to have been there and back on very many occasions the last I found coming back was 6/7/1924 and maybe the 1st in 1902!!

George H Mead to Ghana Africa 2/6/1920 an Engineer
Returned from Africa 4/9/1922
G H Mead an Engineer address
2,St Clements Cottage Truro.

Could this George Henry be a different on as there were two born @ same time
One in Truro area and one in Falmouth.

Strange his wife and daughter wasn't at this address in 1911.
Mary Ann M Mead born @1885 died 1935.

Maryb.

Slightly different tack...George's son Richard had a son called George Henry Mead born 1886 in Tregony Cornwall (which came under Redruth/Cambourne). I have him up to 1901.

I then have an army record in 1917 which I believe is him - not sure though - which shows him to have married in 1905 and to have a daughter Royal Annie Mead born in 1908.

I can find Mary Ann Moss Mead (known as Annie) and daughter Royal in 1911 but not George Henry.
I have then found an emigration record to Canada in 1924 for what I think is same guy, states married but wife nor child with him. Royal Annie marries in 1932 in Truro and dies in 1998 in Redruth area.

Before I order that marriage certificate to check father's details - any thoughts anyone? And can anyone find him 1911?

Jude