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You have not past comment on the post by Maddie above 28 Jan 2014 14:32 A possible marriage for a Fred Holmes who married a Harrison in district Skipton, which is not far from Northallerton and their are births in that area for possible children to that marriage registered in Settle just up the road again from Skipton

Roy

Your best bet would be get his birth cert........find out EXACT DOB.

If it was a match for the death I posted.....get a copy of the death cert, to find out the informant's details

It really is counter-productive to base your searches on hearsay...........you can waste so much time and effort in so doing.

Get some concrete facts...........for your own sake.

Thank you Roy. Unfortunately, I really don't have any details of his marriage at all so cannot apply for a marriage certificate. All I know is details up until 1915 and his niece passed on that he had moved to Rochdale and had a daughter named Margaret.
That is the reason why I don't think the Skipton details are probable.

I will do as Reggie suggests and get his birth certificate (5th April was also my Dad's birthday) and see whether he did die in Leigh and who registered the death. Thank you all for your help.

Reggie - I did look for the death details you had found - but could not find them myself - where did you find those?

The Holmes and Harris marriage also produced other possible children

Winifred sept qu 1919
Thomas mar qu 1921
(Your Margaret E 1922)
Elsie dec qu 1923
Marjorie sept,qu 1926

Roy

The death record is on FMP.....

Once you know the DOB - if it isn't 5/4/1893 - post the details and we'll take another look for a possible death.............

Use this thread................just put 'update' in the title, to attract our attention

Thank you very much Reggie - I'm new to this and really appreciate your help.

If Fred was in the territorials then he should have a service record for WW1 although most didn't survive it may be worth looking on Ancestry just incase,

It should have details of next of kin and if he married who he married and any children born whilst serving,

Roy

Hi Porkie Pie
I'm not a member of Ancestry at the moment but have not managed to find any war records for Fred, only his brother Harry who was killed in 1915 elsewhere.