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Hi everyone
Apologies if this is a bit long winded.
Walter William Batchelor was born on 4th October 1902 in Camberwell. His mother was Florence Batchelor. No father named.
Florence married Douglas W Daniel in 1909 in Hackney.
Walter took the surname Daniel although it is not known if Douglas was his father.
In 1911 (census) there is no sign of Douglas Daniel. Florence Daniel is living with her widowed brother & her son Walter, listed as William is living with his grandmother.
Walter William married as a Daniel in 1924 in Hackney naming Douglas Daniel as his father.
They had five children born between 1925 & 1934. Their last child is my son-in-law’s mother.
About 1936 Walter “disappeared”. By this time they had moved from London to Essex.
I think my daughter last found him in the electoral registers in 1936.
The family story is that he went out one day to get a newspaper and was never seen again although it is possible that his wife knew where he was.
It seems that he reverted back to the surname Batchelor as we have just found a death for him in Watford in 1977, birth date given as 4th October 1902, so my daughter has sent off for the certificate. Let’s hope it reveals something interesting.
This is where I would like some help please because I have found a marriage between a Walter W Batchelor & Sophia Tidman in 1937 in Islington & a son R.W
( may still be alive) born in 1938 also Islington.
Of course this could be an entirely different Walter W Bachelor & so I have been tracing Sophia Tidman.
She was born Sophia Willson on 10th October 1898 Shoreditch/Hackney.
She married Charles Edward Sidney Tidman in 1919 in Islington.
One daughter O.S Tidman from this marriage born 1920.
Charles died in 1936 at Highbury (probate on Ancestry)
She then married Walter W Batchelor & had a son (details above)
In 1953 I have found the son R W on a passenger list age 15 coming back to the
U K from Kenya going to an address in Dagenham, Essex. Also on the same ship was a Sophia Johns age 55 housewife going to the same Dagenham address.
Sophia appears on two later passenger lists 1955 & 1958 as being married & a shop assistant, born 10/10/1898 coming from Kenya going to the Dagenham address.
On Findmypast there are 3 entries for S. Johns (female) born 1898/9 going to Kenya in 1952, 1954 & 1956.
I can’t seem to find a marriage for Sophia to a Mr Johns or a death for her.
Suggestions and any help much appreciated.
Moggie
Apologies if this is a bit long winded.
Walter William Batchelor was born on 4th October 1902 in Camberwell. His mother was Florence Batchelor. No father named.
Florence married Douglas W Daniel in 1909 in Hackney.
Walter took the surname Daniel although it is not known if Douglas was his father.
In 1911 (census) there is no sign of Douglas Daniel. Florence Daniel is living with her widowed brother & her son Walter, listed as William is living with his grandmother.
Walter William married as a Daniel in 1924 in Hackney naming Douglas Daniel as his father.
They had five children born between 1925 & 1934. Their last child is my son-in-law’s mother.
About 1936 Walter “disappeared”. By this time they had moved from London to Essex.
I think my daughter last found him in the electoral registers in 1936.
The family story is that he went out one day to get a newspaper and was never seen again although it is possible that his wife knew where he was.
It seems that he reverted back to the surname Batchelor as we have just found a death for him in Watford in 1977, birth date given as 4th October 1902, so my daughter has sent off for the certificate. Let’s hope it reveals something interesting.
This is where I would like some help please because I have found a marriage between a Walter W Batchelor & Sophia Tidman in 1937 in Islington & a son R.W
( may still be alive) born in 1938 also Islington.
Of course this could be an entirely different Walter W Bachelor & so I have been tracing Sophia Tidman.
She was born Sophia Willson on 10th October 1898 Shoreditch/Hackney.
She married Charles Edward Sidney Tidman in 1919 in Islington.
One daughter O.S Tidman from this marriage born 1920.
Charles died in 1936 at Highbury (probate on Ancestry)
She then married Walter W Batchelor & had a son (details above)
In 1953 I have found the son R W on a passenger list age 15 coming back to the
U K from Kenya going to an address in Dagenham, Essex. Also on the same ship was a Sophia Johns age 55 housewife going to the same Dagenham address.
Sophia appears on two later passenger lists 1955 & 1958 as being married & a shop assistant, born 10/10/1898 coming from Kenya going to the Dagenham address.
On Findmypast there are 3 entries for S. Johns (female) born 1898/9 going to Kenya in 1952, 1954 & 1956.
I can’t seem to find a marriage for Sophia to a Mr Johns or a death for her.
Suggestions and any help much appreciated.
Moggie
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