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Terence

Terence Report 1 Jun 2008 20:18

can you help please trying to find info on my great great grand fathers side willoughby walter hayward he died 25/08/1916 in ww1 he came from london can anyone go back further he was born in 1884 thank you

Julie

Julie Report 1 Jun 2008 20:19

What was his parents names

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 1 Jun 2008 20:21

Could this be his birth registration (names are the other way round):-

Name: Walter Willoughby Hayward
Year of Registration: 1883
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Croydon
County: Greater London, Kent, Surrey
Volume: 2a
Page: 291

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KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 1 Jun 2008 20:24

There is this one in the 1891 census (Mitcham isn't far from Croydon where the above birth was registered):-

Name: Walter Hayward
Age: 7
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1884
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Waller
Mother's Name: Elana
Gender: Male
Where born: Mitcham, Surrey, England

Civil Parish: Tooting Graveney
Ecclesiastical parish: St Nicholas
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Wandsworth
Sub registration district: Streatham
ED, institution, or vessel: 34
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Caroline Campfield 74
Albert Hayward 9/12
Earnest Hayward 5
Elana Hayward 35
Elsie Hayward 3
Ethel Hayward 4
Eva Hayward 8
Waller Hayward 38
Walter Hayward 7

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 460; Folio 75; Page 28; GSU roll: 6095570.

I think parents names have been mistranscribed. They look more like Walter and Eleanor to me.

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KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 1 Jun 2008 20:44

This looks like his death on the Commonwealth War Graves site:-

Name: HAYWARD, WALTER WILLOUGHBY
Initials: W W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Bombardier
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery
Unit Text: "A" Bty. 109th Bde.
Age: 32
Date of Death: 25/08/1916
Service No: 40037
Additional information: Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hayward, of 7, Plassy Rd., Catford, London; husband of Laura Hayward.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: O. 18.
Cemetery: BERNAFAY WOOD BRITISH CEMETERY, MONTAUBAN

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KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 1 Jun 2008 20:52

This is Walter's marriage details:-

Walter Willoughby Hayward to Laura Orris
June qtr. 1906, Lewisham, 1d, 1894

With these details (which are the full GRO reference) you can order the marriage certificate from this address:-

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

Certificates cost £7 if ordered online and you tick the box to say you have the full GRO reference.

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