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Can I take it that this is his birth?

Births Jun 1919 (>99%)
Ashton William B Massey Wirral 8a 514

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1939:
Ashton Household (8 People) Tender Cottage, Tender Farm Fender Lane , Wallasey C.B., Cheshire, England
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First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Occupation
William B Ashton 12 Mar 1919 Painter & Decorator Unemployed
William Ashton 21 Jun 1889 ???
Marjorie J Ashton 03 Mar 1890 Unpaid Domestic Duties
Joyce Ashton 16 Dec 1917 Shop Assistant Green Grocer
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Nancy Salter (Ashton) 16 Jan 1923 Shop Assistant Sweets & Tobacco
Joan McKay (Ashton) 24 Aug 1924 Printer Assistant Liro Dep.

His parents marriage:


Marriages Jun 1917 (>99%)
Ashton William Massey Birkenhead 8a 910 Scan available - click to view
Massey Margaret J Ashton Birkenhead 8a 910 Scan available - click to view

What is it exactly that you want to know about him?

Dea x

Deaths Sep 1977 (>99%)
ASHTON WILLIAM BENBOW 12MR1919 NOTTINGHAM 8 921

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He was cremated:

Cremation Register summary
last name
Ashton
first names
William Benbow
Cremation date
19 September 1977
Location
Nottinghamshire

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The record on deceasedonline.com might have more detail - you'd have to register and pay to view..

William Benbow Ashton in the Web: UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014
Name: William Benbow Ashton
Register Type: Cremation
Death Date: 14 Sep 1977
Burial or Cremation Date: 19 Sep 1977
Burial or Cremation Place: Nottinghamshire, England
URL: https://www.deceasedonline.com...

this could be his marriage

Marriages Dec 1938 (>99%)
Ashton William B McAleny Birkenhead 8a 1256 Scan available - click to view
McAleny Margaret V Ashton Birkenhead 8a 1256 Scan available -

Ahston/Massey births, so all possible siblings:-

Births Sep 1917 (>99%)
Ashton Harold A Massey Chester 8a 517
Births Mar 1918 (>99%)
Ashton Joyce Massey Wirral 8a 542
Births Jun 1919 (>99%)
Ashton William B Massey Wirral 8a 514
Births Dec 1920 (>99%)
Ashton Penelope A Massey Wirral 8a 715
Births Mar 1923 (>99%)
Ashton Nancy Massey Wirral 8a 699
Births Dec 1924 (>99%)
Ashton Joan Massey Wirral 8a 638

Marked as answered, with no word of acknowledgement..............strange

Let's not be too harsh - I had a nice thank you from the poster with the following message:

Hello there,

Thank you for all the information you forwarded to me about William. Will have a look through all the links you have mentioned.

I belie he got married in 1938 but cannot find out what happened to him after then.

Thanks for your help.

Looks like 'our Prickles' has now found his demise - posted above.

Dea Xxx

Not 'harsh' - merely perplexed.

That's what I meant really ErikaH xxx - just wanted you to know that she had responded. My choice of words was not quite what I meant.

Dea Xxx

At least everyone now knows that the OP has seen the info, which is excellent.

Thank you to everyone who forwarded me information with regards to my search for William Benbow Ashton. The information has been vey helpful. Still trying to fill in some gaps from 1938 to when he died which I believe was in Nottingham.

Kind regards to all.

He was in Cheshire in 1939 as has been posted above, and his death was certainly in Nottingham - again as posted above.


Electoral Rolls are probably the only source of info, but you'd need addresses to start searching through them in the relevant local libraries

His last address will be on his death cert.................

What happened to his wife?

Her birth
Births Mar 1920 (>99%)
McAleny Margaret V Barlow Birkenhead 8a 1112

An Ashton/McAleny daughter was born in Basford reg district in 1944, so a) Margaret was still around at that time; and b) they were living in Nottinghamshire.


That child's birth is also registered as Concannon / McAleny.
Married a Mills in Basford in 1967.
A Mills / Concannon child was born in Birkenhead in 1968.

His parents were on Nottinghamshire ER in 2004, and his father probably died in Mansfield reg district in 2007..


EDIT:

Margaret had remarried in Basford in 1942.

Margaret V Concannon is on Nottinghamshire ER in 2015, per 192.com


She died in 2016:

CONCANNON Margaret Veronica Of Old Chapel Close, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, passed away on 17th August 2016, aged 96. Funeral service on Wednesday 7th September 2016, St Josephs Roman Catholic Church, Sutton in Ashfield, at 1pm, followed by burial at Kingsway Cemetery.



I suspect the OP knows this already, and is really only interested in William.

Have only just returned to Genes Reunited and found several messages with regards to my search for William Benbow Ashton. I am still missing some information on William as to his whereabouts from 1939 when he was living on the Wirral and when he came to Nottingham after the war as far as I know he joined the army in 1939.

Some of your research is correct just a couple of things are not quite right.

If he was in the forces, his records will cost you £30.00 and take many months to arrive

If he and his wife had children, get copy certs for info about his occupation.

If some of the info is 'not quite right' that's because people don't have your 'inside knowledge' and post what they find in the hope that it will prove helpful.

It's up to you to sort out which is relevant and which isn't

Have you taken the excellent advice about getting a copy of his death cert?

Just a possibility - I have absolutely no idea if this could be your man or not:

W. B. Ashton
in the UK, British Army Lists, 1882-1962
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Name: W. B. Ashton
Military Year: 1941
Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant


W. B. Ashton
in the UK, British Army Lists, 1882-1962
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Name: W. B. Ashton
Military Year: 1942
Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant


W. B. Ashton
in the UK, British Army Lists, 1882-1962
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Name: W. B. Ashton
Military Year: 1945
Regiment: Royal Army Service Corps
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant


Or this - presumably a different man:

W. B. Ashton
in the UK, British Army Lists, 1882-1962
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Name: W. B. Ashton
Military Year: 1944
Regiment: The Royal Welch Fusiliers
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant