Hello everyone,
I'm doing a bit of family research on behalf of my aunt. She knows very little about her family, and I've been asked to research her grandfather Percy Wildish especially. I've worked out that Percy was born in Upchurch, Kent in 1888 and died in Gillingham in 1934 (registered Percy Wildish consistently - suggesting no middle names?).
I'm going to order his death cert for my aunt, but there's something else I've been wondering about Percy, and wanted to know if anyone else had any theories -
Percy and his wife Florence had 5 children: 3 sons born in 1915, 1921, 1924; and 2 daughters born in 1929 and 1930.
What puzzles me is the gap between their first and second children. I wondered if it had something to do with the Great War? If he was off fighting for a long time/working in the forces in some other capacity that might explain it. He could even have been a conscientious objector and in prison I suppose (my own gxgrandfather was)...although that's probably not as likely!
I started looking for any military records but have so far found nothing with my FMP sub. A Percy A. Wildish pops up, but he seems to have died during the war so I'm sure it can't be him.
Anyone got any suggestions or very bright ideas?!
Many thanks,
Cat.
I'm doing a bit of family research on behalf of my aunt. She knows very little about her family, and I've been asked to research her grandfather Percy Wildish especially. I've worked out that Percy was born in Upchurch, Kent in 1888 and died in Gillingham in 1934 (registered Percy Wildish consistently - suggesting no middle names?).
I'm going to order his death cert for my aunt, but there's something else I've been wondering about Percy, and wanted to know if anyone else had any theories -
Percy and his wife Florence had 5 children: 3 sons born in 1915, 1921, 1924; and 2 daughters born in 1929 and 1930.
What puzzles me is the gap between their first and second children. I wondered if it had something to do with the Great War? If he was off fighting for a long time/working in the forces in some other capacity that might explain it. He could even have been a conscientious objector and in prison I suppose (my own gxgrandfather was)...although that's probably not as likely!
I started looking for any military records but have so far found nothing with my FMP sub. A Percy A. Wildish pops up, but he seems to have died during the war so I'm sure it can't be him.
Anyone got any suggestions or very bright ideas?!
Many thanks,
Cat.
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