I'm helping my sister in law do her tree. We've done quite well except for a small problem of Leslie Melhuish.
We thought Leslie was her father's cousin who lived with the family (Samuel Baxter Melhuish, Edith Helen Melhuish, and children Marjorie (1906) and Donald (1915).
However we have found Leslie on the 1911 census (born 1908) living as son with all the above except the as yet unborn, Donald.
Fair enough. We will accept him as an uncle and buy the cert, but.....our biggest mystery is what happened to Leslie after his childhood.
The whole family were into fishing, boating, etc and Donald and Leslie both went off fishing with Samuel. Story goes Leslie went off to somewhere in Asia (Singapore and Malaysia have been mentioned) about 1939, so he didn't have to go to war. Obviously he didn't make a great choice as later history would prove, but how on earth do we start looking for any trace of him??
Apparently he either owned or worked on a plantation there.
We just don't know where to start looking. Neither of us know enough about the history of people during wartime to hazard a guess as to where an English man would try to go or do.
We thought Leslie was her father's cousin who lived with the family (Samuel Baxter Melhuish, Edith Helen Melhuish, and children Marjorie (1906) and Donald (1915).
However we have found Leslie on the 1911 census (born 1908) living as son with all the above except the as yet unborn, Donald.
Fair enough. We will accept him as an uncle and buy the cert, but.....our biggest mystery is what happened to Leslie after his childhood.
The whole family were into fishing, boating, etc and Donald and Leslie both went off fishing with Samuel. Story goes Leslie went off to somewhere in Asia (Singapore and Malaysia have been mentioned) about 1939, so he didn't have to go to war. Obviously he didn't make a great choice as later history would prove, but how on earth do we start looking for any trace of him??
Apparently he either owned or worked on a plantation there.
We just don't know where to start looking. Neither of us know enough about the history of people during wartime to hazard a guess as to where an English man would try to go or do.
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