Alexander [Alec] Horace Mack

[Merry]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Were you looking for MMN Wood, rather than Woods, Merry? I believe it should be Woods. For the children's births, I mean.

Also the public tree on ancestry links to Lilian Maud Woods' birth registered Jan-Mar 1905 Merthyr.

Yes, I was looking at the name Wood as that's what's written in the opening post. I see the marriage which you had already looked at so I didn't bother , is in the name Woods, so forget everything I said about the children and Lilian's birth reg!

[GARDINER1]

I had no idea everyone was being so helpful!
The witnesses for my Grandfather's and Grandmother's wedding were:
E M Butler,
A A Badclay?
Thanks!

[Mary from Italy]

An Alexander Horace Mack with the correct date of birth died in the Bournemouth area in 1975; is that your grandfather?

[Mary from Italy]

He appears on the English electoral roll for the first time in 1928, at 38 Bloemfontein Ave., Hammersmith. Lilian isn't listed that year, but they're both listed at the same address the next year.

He would have been entitled to vote from age 21, I think, so if he wasn't in the armed forces, I wonder where he was?

Maybe Scottish or Irish? Or maybe born and raised abroad?

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Mary from Italy

He appears on the English electoral roll for the first time in 1928, at 38 Bloemfontein Ave., Hampstead. Lilian isn't listed that year, but they're both listed at the same address the next year.

He would have been entitled to vote from age 21, I think, so if he wasn't in the armed forces, I wonder where he was?

Maybe Scottish? Or maybe born and raised abroad?

Even if you have managed to search the Electoral Rolls on Findmypast, they are not complete, so he could have been in some part of England that is not included. Ancestry only has London and a very few other places.

[Mary from Italy]

Yes, it was FMP I was looking at. I didn't realise they weren't complete!

[GARDINER1]

Wedding Certificate:
Horace Alexander [Alec] Mack, 25, Bachelor, Carpenter & Joiner, 60 Weltje Road, Hammersmith, William Henry Mack, Shipping Agent.
Lilian Maud Woods, 21, -- 16, Victoria Place, Gilfach Gelly[i]gaer,[near Merthyr] Wales, George Henry Woods, Collier,
Witnesses: E.M Butler, A.A. R[B]a[r]dclay
No place was given on death certificate for birth.
I was always told he never went abroad and that he was brought up on the south coast somewhere with family members after his parents died, when he was about 9.

[GARDINER1]

He built the house at Meyrick Crescent, Bournemouth and my Grandmother remained there after his death.

[Merry]

No place was given on death certificate for birth.

Can you tell us who registered the death? (or the relationship between them and Alec if the informant may still be living)

[kiterunner]

Glad to see you got back to us at last! I've read back through and will have another go.

There are no Macks at 60 Weltje Road on the 1924 electoral roll:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...0_212998-00376

Ancestry doesn't seem to have a 1925 e roll for that street, and they seem to be missing the even numbers in 1926.