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Harry's birth? Update page 2
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ErikaH | Report | 5 Oct 2021 15:45 |
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That's the family which was eliminated above..................................you already said it wasn't right |
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Kuros | Report | 5 Oct 2021 16:07 |
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Yes, Susannah and Luannah seem to be the same person. Harry's wife, Alice, lived with my cousin and her family for a while before she died in 1962 and knew he had no siblings. He was also definitely Harry, not Henry and he only had one forename. There are two more marriages at the right time for Harry's birth, one to Editha Peachey and the other to Sophia Torble. I'm looking at everything now just in case. |
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ErikaH | Report | 5 Oct 2021 16:14 |
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As you can't find a birth, it’ simply isn't possible to be definite about his forename - that's only what he called himself. |
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ErikaH | Report | 5 Oct 2021 16:16 |
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Editha Jolly says in 1911 that she has had NO children |
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Kuros | Report | 5 Oct 2021 16:29 |
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Yes, I've just followed the likely spouses and found another dead end. |
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Kuros | Report | 8 Oct 2021 13:56 |
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The mystery is solved. Harry Pridmore Jolly was born in Corby, Northamptonshire, in 1888 to John Thomas Jolly and Mary Jane Jolly, nee Pridmore. He later dropped the Pridmore. He had nine siblings. He joined the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1905 and the Hussars in 1906 when they returned to Norwich after the Boer Wars. It seems that the birth places on the 1911 censuses have been swapped round. So much for him being an only child! |
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ErikaH | Report | 8 Oct 2021 16:38 |
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Birth was registered in 1887 |
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