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Thank you Tempest i will have a good look in the link you provided me x

I wonder if he was born Josiah and changed it to Joseph??

Name: Josiah W John
Mother's Maiden Surname: Cockings
Date of Registration: Apr May Jun 1918
Registration district: Swansea
Registration county: Wales
Volume Number: 11a
Page Number: 2039


Mary

this might help for his merchant navy records

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/merchantseamanafter1917.htm?WT.lp=rg-3193

No sorry thats the problem nobody knows any of his family names or siblings only that his father was from London somewhere i only know all of his childrens my uncles and aunties we just do not know his own family my mother said he never spoke about them. The only reason we know his birth date is because of the death record tells us and how we know this death record is correct is because we know when and where he died which was in Penarth home towers in glamorgan south wales. Do you think his merchant navy records would hold more information he told them about him? i have no idea how to find such records?

Hi do you have any idea of his parents names or if he had any siblings?

found this possible birth record, dates are out but area fits

England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916-2005
about Joseph John Name: Joseph John
Mother's Maiden Surname: Lewis
Date of Registration: Jan Feb Mar 1917
Registration district: Swansea
Registration county: Wales
Volume Number: 11a
Page Number: 1905

For years i have been trying to find my grandfathers birth record and possible leads for names of his family, all i know was his mother died giving birth to my grandfather and my mother says he never spoke about his own family and they were to scared to ask him, my mother thinks he was born in mumbles swansea wales, he married my nan Olwen Davies in the early 1940s in cardiff and he joined the merchant navy between 1943-46 and returned by before 1947 when my mother was born, please help i am desperate to know about my grandfathers family. His death record is below. When i look in this site for his birth record i can't find it but i can find his death record it's so strange. Is there anyway we can find out what he did in the merchant navy? many thanks xx


Name Joseph William John
Year of Death 1986
Month of Death August
Registration District S Glamorgan
District Code 28
Registration Number 2046
Entry Number
Date of Birth 8-6-1918