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safc

safc Report 26 May 2017 22:34

Field Value
County Nottinghamshire
Place (link for place information) Calverton
Church name St Wilfrid
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 1724
Baptism date 06 Jan 1897
Birth date 13 Feb 1896 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Person forename Lucy Ann
Person abode Calverton
Father forename John
Father surname WRIGHT
Father occupation Bricklayers Labourer
Mother forename Mary Ann
Register note
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AustinQ

AustinQ Report 27 May 2017 10:22

I think the 1896 James is correct:

Nottingham Evening Post - Monday 31 December 1923

SIX MONTHS FOR REFLECTION:
"You have made a very bad beginning and I hope the sentence will enbale you to think over your past life and become honest in the future" said Sir L Rolleston today at the Notts. Quarter sessions to James Edwin Francis, cowman, who pleaded guilty to breaking and entering two dwelling houses at Attneborough, and stealing various articles belonging to Henry John Gibbons and Thomas Mason Day.

Supt. Neate said prisoner was a native of Shrewsbury and went to Daybrook at an early age. He served in the Durham Light Infantry and was discharged on account of gas poisoning for which he was granted a pension of 16s. a week. He had had various kinds of employment including that of farm labourer at Barton. He was a married man with one child, and was living apart from his wife. There were three previous convictions.
Prisoner was sent to gaol for six months.
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England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment,
Source Habitual Criminals Register 1924
First name(s) James Edwin
Last name Francis
Year 1923
Birth year 1897
Occupation Cowman
Place Nottinghamshire
Birth date ? ? 1897
Date ? ? 1923
Category Institutions & organisations

AustinQ

AustinQ Report 27 May 2017 12:11

This might explain James children with his later partner:

Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 08 January 1930

Castle Donnington- Mother's false information

A single woman, Dorothy Gwendoline Astle, living with a married man at Wesleyan School-yard, Castle Donnington, was bound over for 12 months at Loughborough today on a charge of giving false information when registering the birth of her child...

Mr W A Allsopp, registrar of the sub district Castle Donnington said that on September 27th 1929 defendant entered the office giving her name as Dorothy Lucy Francis, formerly Wright. She registered the child as Edward Harold, the father being James Edward Francis.

Defendant, in reply to the chairman, had said she had thought it would be best for the children's sake.

Answering the clerk she said she had lived with the man for six years, and they had four children, two of whom were registered in the same way as this. She wished these cases to be taken into consideration.
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So Dorothy Gwendoline Astle pretended to be Lucy Wright (James' legal wife) when she registered the children.

Chris Ho :)

Chris Ho :) Report 27 May 2017 18:16

http://www.genesreunited.co.za/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1264408?d=asc&page=0

(not sure if anything of help on above?)

Chris :)