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So Reginald spent too long at sea and Daisy went off with someone else and took his surname??

Daisy was born in 1897 so wouldn't have got the vote till 1927 when she reached 30, then all women got the vote in 1928. In 1927 Reginald is back with Arthur so they've either split up or something has happened to Daisy between 1918 and 1927.

It says Chief Petty Officer RNVR

The Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve records are on Documents Online at TNA but our Reggie isn't showing up.

There's a Reginald Soar with middle name Rhys, and there are lots of Reginald Arthurs but none of them Soar or anything similar.

I thought Reginald was a bookseller.

Added:
Change of occupation because of war?

Reason Reginald not on Electoral rolls earlier is probably because he is at Sea.
On marriege cert he is Chief Petty officer.
1920 2/3 times away as Wireless Operator and 1926.

Maryb

Daisy seems to have vanished into thin air, Patchem. However, she does appear in 1 tree on here so I PM'd Maureen last night suggesting she e-mails that lady.
She also has Reginald Soar so fingers crossed!

Returning to the Soars and electoral registers.
1927 Arthur and Reginald
1928 Arthur, Harriet and Reginald
and up to 1936 Arthur, Harriet and Reginald together.

This marriage?
Marriages Jun 1928
Lickfold Harriett Soar Edmonton 3a 1704
Soar Arthur E G Lickfold Edmonton 3a 1704

Daisy never shows.

No Soar/Wills births on free bmd.

Looking back at John Wills this looks why he went to St Helena

John Wills & Catherine Swain married 1831 St Helena Country Church
A marriage certificate states the above married in the Country Church
31st October 1831 by James Vernon Snr Chaplin. John is listed as being 'of the St Helena Artillery.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/st-helena-genealogy/message/1043

certificate confirming their marriage but it does not give any details of their parentage.

http://www.parishregister.com/messageboard/pop_printer_friendly.asp?TOPIC_ID=1465

That's interesting - he's with his dad on the electoral roll in 1927 too and there's no sign of Daisy.


In the 40s he's in Greenwich, also on his own.

In 1936 Reginald is on the electoral roll with Arthur George, his father.

Get the death certificate for Reginald, just to check out his status?

??
Daisy Mary Humphris
Birth Date: 26 Mar 1897
Date of Registration: Mar 1984
Age at Death: 87
Registration district: Bournemouth
Inferred County: Hampshire
Volume: 23
Page: 388

Pure co-incidence, but for reference just in case?

1911

Name: Reginald Arthur Soar
Age in 1911: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1891
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Islington, London, England
Civil parish: Ealing
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Street Address: 18 High Street, South, Ealing W
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Bookseller and Stationer Assistant Shop
Registration district: Brentford

Arthur George Soar 50
Isabella Soar 52
Reginald Arthur Soar 20

Sorry, Janice, missed it. Thanks

It's 26th March 1897 - it's on her baptismal entry.

Could you apply for Daisy's birth certificate for exact date of birth?

Reginald's death

Deaths Dec 1958
SOAR Reginald A 68 Surrey S.W. 5g 964

Here's Daisy's marriage - it was posted before but without the groom's name:

Name: Daisy Beatrice Mary Wills
Age: 21
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1897
Spouse Name: Reginald Arthur Soar
Spouse Age: 27
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 20 Jul 1918
Parish: Paddington St John
Borough: Westminster
Father Name: John George Wills
Spouse Father Name: Arthur George Soar
Register Type: Parish Register

Thanks to everyone who 'investigated' this for me, I am still trying to find out what happened to Daisy Beatrice Mary Wills ( would be my dads half sister the one he does not know about) as I have entered her name and come up with nothing, I am very new to all of this but have gone back quite a way with the Ilma Willie line, my Dad knew that they originally came from Pangbourne Berkshire as he used to go there as a young boy and he remembers his Grandad very well but not his name which I now know was Levi Willie, so I am getting there.
Perhaps George did not leave his money to John as may of disapproved of Johns divorce and subsequent marriage to my Nan Ilma.

This is the closest death I can find, but we need to remember a death is registered where it happened, not where you live.

Name: John Wills
Birth Date: abt 1875
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1925
Age at Death: 50
Registration district: Billericay
Inferred County: Essex
Volume: 4a
Page: 449