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Bryn, searching at

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx

for Lamb
died in WWI (edit, oops, I meant WWII)
served with UK forces
served in Air Force

there are 43 results ... have you been through them to see whether any has any info that would connect him to Charles?


The thing is ... 1915-1935, there were 17 Lamb births in Bolton

there is no set of more than 5 (mother Twist in that case) that had the same mother
(and the Twist births start in 1915 and go to 1927 thus overlapping almost all the others)

If some or all of the children were born in Bolton,
either there were two marriages,
or some of the children were born somewhere else.

actually, wait

the Twist births start in 1912 and the total is 7 (unless any born before 1912)

but the marriage was probably

Marriages Jun 1909
LAMB John Thomas Bolton 8c 657
TWIST Esther Bolton 8c 657

they had 1 child in 1911
(any of the later children could have died in infancy of course)

the only WWI death who might match one of their sons and the info given was

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2682875/LAMB,%20JOHN

for whom there is no personal info in that record

That's a great site and gives me another avenue to search from a different angle. Gives me some hope, thanks everyone I am really grateful for this help. My wife has now loaded her family tree so I am hoping matches will help with the gaps.

Could you confirm that he definitely had 7 children and died around 1935?

Thanks

patchem I know Bucklow and Bolton aren't next door, but they are closer than Staines Middlesex for example ;-)

I agree with you for sure, we would expect to find a telephone listing for example

I am not familiar with electoral rolls, my own research is generally farther in the past, but could they be checked for the period 1920-1935 for any trace ?

there just isn't any information at all that matches Bryn's information, no marriage, no death, no births, no telephone listing, no apparent WWII deaths of sons ...

I know its a mystery!! He died of stomach cancer and definitely lived in the Horwich district of Bolton. He was about 40 and the family seem to think only just. Gran saw him before his death and I think she was about 8 so roughly 1933 to 35 was what I was working on.

Patricia,

Did the family live there with him - i.e. were all the children born in Bolton?

Thanks

We think so yes, I am going to a family reunion in a couple of weeks and will be grilling my wider family just in case someone has nugget of info.