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Originally Posted by Olde Crone
That sentence "I wasn't wanted" reminds me of a friend whose widowed mother remarried and his new stepfather hated him. I know that doesn't help find him but it is a thought to bear in mind when the 1921 census comes out.
OC
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He’d left home by 1903 OC to join the army and apparently never went back home wherever home was. He was discharged from the army in Pontefract and was making his way to London when he arrived in Ashby de la Zouch and met his future wife. They married in 1908 in Ashby and stayed in the area. He was recalled to the army in 1914 and became a prisoner of war in 1915. We’ve always said that had he not become a POW he may have been killed and my father in law who was born in 1920 wouldn’t have existed.