OH's grandad would never tell his family anything about himself of his parents etc.
He just said he wasn't wanted and that was all he would say.
As you can imagine doing this side of the tree was difficult.
Over 20 years ago we started this. Got his marriage cert.
Peter Harrison and Lily Cox married Ashby de la Zouch on 25 Dec 1908.
He was 23 years old and his fathers name was given as Thomas Harrison (deceased) The witnesses were members of the brides family.
We knew he joined the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before he met Lily and then was called up as a reservist in WW1.
The GRO searched for his birth cert for us. Peter Harrison, father Thomas born Yorkshire about 1885.
We received one for a man born in Jun 1886 in York, father Thomas.
NOW the problem. We have followed this line for years. Now with the 1911 York census release I find that this Peter Harrison is still in York and married to a Florence. I have to now rule this line out. All those certs are wrong!!
MY Peter Harrison is in Ashby and married to Lily. His place of birth is listed as Rotherham, Yorkshire.
I cannot find a birth to fit in Rotherham at the 1885 + or - a couple of years.
And to confuse things, his pension record said he Joined in 1903 at the age of 18 and was born in Ashby :(
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He just said he wasn't wanted and that was all he would say.
As you can imagine doing this side of the tree was difficult.
Over 20 years ago we started this. Got his marriage cert.
Peter Harrison and Lily Cox married Ashby de la Zouch on 25 Dec 1908.
He was 23 years old and his fathers name was given as Thomas Harrison (deceased) The witnesses were members of the brides family.
We knew he joined the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before he met Lily and then was called up as a reservist in WW1.
The GRO searched for his birth cert for us. Peter Harrison, father Thomas born Yorkshire about 1885.
We received one for a man born in Jun 1886 in York, father Thomas.
NOW the problem. We have followed this line for years. Now with the 1911 York census release I find that this Peter Harrison is still in York and married to a Florence. I have to now rule this line out. All those certs are wrong!!
MY Peter Harrison is in Ashby and married to Lily. His place of birth is listed as Rotherham, Yorkshire.
I cannot find a birth to fit in Rotherham at the 1885 + or - a couple of years.
And to confuse things, his pension record said he Joined in 1903 at the age of 18 and was born in Ashby :(
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
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