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Name: Albert Wills
Age: 27
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859
Spouse Name: Elizabeth Agnes Parkhurst
Spouse Age: 19 with consent
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 3 Aug 1886
Parish: Chelsea St Luke
Borough: Kensington and Chelsea
Father Name: John Wills deceased
Spouse Father Name: Charles Parkhurst deceased
Register Type: Parish Register

Wonder if Elizabeth died in childbirth:

Deaths Mar 1891
Wills Albert Charles 0 Fulham 1a 263
Wills Elizabeth Agnes 23 Fulham 1a 261
Wills Joseph Stephen 0 Fulham 1a 262

If Probate was granted to Albert Wills could he not be acting as Executor?

Here's Albert's 2nd marriage

Name: Albert Wills
Age: 33
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859
Spouse Name: Maud Mary Fry
Spouse Age: 27
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 16 Apr 1892
Parish: Parsons Green St Dionis
Borough: Hammersmith and Fulham
Father Name: John Wills
Spouse Father Name: Robert Charles Fry
Register Type: Parish Register

Here's Catherine in 1881. Says married not widow but she's not with John on census night

Name: Catherine Wills
Age: 68
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1813
Relation: Mother
Gender: Female
Where born: St Helena, South Africa

Civil parish: St George
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address: 2 Market Street
Condition as to marriage: Married
Education:

Employment status:

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Occupation: Bootmakers Wife

Registration district: Chelsea
Sub-registration district: Mayfair
ED, institution, or vessel: 13
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 97
Folio: 27
Page Number: 19
Household Members:
Name Age
Edward Wills 41
Louisa Wills 37
Edward C. Wills
Mary Ann Chapman 34
Catherine Wills 68

From Maureen:

Hi, Thanks for all your help it says on the marriage cert of Ilma Kathleem and John George, that he divorced Beatrice, I did not know that he had been married before, a fact which my dad who is 95 does not know, also that there was a daughter from Beatrice. I also cannot find a deathcert for John George, my dad seems to remember him dying when he was a small boy around 1924/25 as Ilma my dads' mum asked the Railway Benevolent Fund for financial help as she was left on her own with to boys to bring up.

Do you know where they were living in 1924?
Thanks

There are 2 Wills MMN Willie births on freeBMD in 1913 and 1915 so is your dad missing or older than you think?!!

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

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.

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

Reginald's death

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

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

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

Sorry, Janice, missed it. Thanks

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

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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?

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

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

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.