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WILLIAM CAREY BORN 4TH QTR. 1902
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Iris | Report | 23 Mar 2010 11:33 |
I have been trying to locate William Carey's death certificate. He was born 4th qtr. 1902. I have just been informed he died in the first world war, I thought that he would have been too young, but perhaps he lied about his age. I've found a couple of deaths for William Carey for 1918, unfortunately I don't know where, if he did, serve. Can anybody please point me in the right direction? |
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brummiejan | Report | 23 Mar 2010 11:39 |
Iris, maybe you need to backtrack a bit. |
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Iris | Report | 23 Mar 2010 11:44 |
He was born in St. Giles in West London. I have him living with his family in Goldsmith Street in 1911 Census. He is my husband's uncle. My sister-in-law told me that her mother, William's sister, told her that William had died in the first world war. |
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brummiejan | Report | 23 Mar 2010 11:48 |
OK, fair enough! Although not unheard of, you are right, he would have been very unusual to have died in that war. |
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brummiejan | Report | 23 Mar 2010 11:50 |
Do you have his address in 1911? Service records on Ancestry often have the address, and it might just be the same. |
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Iris | Report | 23 Mar 2010 11:56 |
His address was 13 Goldsmith Street, WC London. |
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brummiejan | Report | 23 Mar 2010 12:04 |
Me neither! Not sure where to go with this I have to admit. |
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Iris | Report | 23 Mar 2010 12:06 |
No Problem. Thank you so much for trying to help. I'll just keep plugging away in the hopes that I will come up with something. |
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brummiejan | Report | 23 Mar 2010 12:19 |
Such a pity. If your info about his death is accurate, he probably lied as you say so very difficult to locate military death or records. |
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Iris | Report | 23 Mar 2010 13:36 |
My sister-in-law's exact words were "Mum's brother Bill died in the first world war". I said that I thought he was rather young and if he had died then he must have lied about his age. I do know that his father Richard Carey was in the first world war, which he survived. Whether it was a son wanting to be a part of what his father was experiencing, or he may well have even seen it as a sense of adventure! Who knows? |