Morris/Hayward/ Goodacre - not quite as bad as the Bodycotes

[kiterunner]

There is a George A Morris, Sgt in the Machine Gun Corps, no 29383, who died 12 Nov 1918, age 38, listed as G A Morris on CWGC, born Evesham, Worcestershire.

But I can't find service papers for him, apart from the medal index card, so no idea whether it's the right person.

[Merry]

In 1911 Samuel Cooper is listed with his full name in the household of his parents, Alfred and Mary Cooper, in Shustoke, Warwickshire

COOPER, Samuel Martin Son Married M 31 1880 Railway Signal Man b Warwick Nether Whitacre

[Merry]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

There is a George A Morris, Sgt in the Machine Gun Corps, no 29383, who died 12 Nov 1918, age 38, listed as G A Morris on CWGC, born Evesham, Worcestershire.

But I can't find service papers for him, apart from the medal index card, so no idea whether it's the right person.

Pity the middle names don't get included everywhere!

Births Jun 1880
MORRIS George Algernon Evesham 6c 366

[Merry]

It would seem your auntie may have had a brother, b Q3 1914.

[Merry]

Originally Posted by Merry

Best fit:

Name: John Goodacre
Birth Date: abt 1868
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1930
Age at Death: 62
Registration district: Leicester
Inferred County: Leicestershire
Volume: 7a
Page: 244

Probate was granted for the above John Goodacre to widow Mary Ann Goodacre, so probably the right man.

[Anstey Nomad]

Thank you so much for your help with this. It would be so much easier if people in my family would speak to each other!

That John Goodacre will be the right one. His address in Beatrice Road in Leicester is literally yards away from where my grandparents lived in Alma Street. He obviously left Mary Ann comfortable. That could explain why, after they married, they moved from rented property to a brand new, owner occupied house, across the other side of the main road.

I had not been aware that my grandad was Mary Ann's third husband, that she had a child, or that my Auntie had a brother. However, I am now getting flashbacks to a family wedding we attended in September 1960 and I think I may have met either her brother or her cousin.

I think I probably need to be hypnotised now to get the best of this.

Thanks again

AN

[Merry]

I think I probably need to be hypnotised now to get the best of this.

Oooh yes! We could watch and take notes

[Anstey Nomad]

Mary Ann's Will arrived this morning. Her son was Charles Alfred Samuel Cooper, last known address, in 1947, 38 Exeter Street, Lyttleton, New Zealand.

The Will is quite interesting in that she appointed an executor and then removed her and her legacy by Codicil, and also she left money to Auntie Madge, who she describes as her adopted daughter, and to Auntie's daughter from her first marriage, but nothing to her daughter from her second marriage.

I start to wonder whether there are as many secrets on this side of the family as on the other.

[Anstey Nomad]

Next question:

Can anyone locate in the Index to the 1921 Census:

Mary Ann Goodacre (born 1882 Sheppey)

Marjorie Morris (born Nov 1916 Leicester, but registered in MQ 1917)

For some reason I am drawing a complete blank.

Thanks

[kiterunner]

I need to reread the thread carefully but I did find this household in Leicester (Leonard G Morris birth registered Jul-Sep 1914 Leicester with MMN Hayward):

Ada Morris 1868 Leicester Head
George Arthur Morris 1891 Leicester Son (widowed)
Blanche Emma Morris 1901 Leicester Daughter
Leonard George Morris 1914 Leicester Grandson (mother dead)