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You could try Cornwall Records Office to see what records they hold.

http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/community-and-living/records-archives-and-cornish-studies/cornwall-record-office/

Would suggest emailing them in first instance.

Andy

Thank you all for the valuable information which I am gathering information on now.

I wonder if you could give me some tips, I am visiting Cornwall next week looking arround the area my mother (Doris Evelyn Thornborrow) was raised by two Aunts the only things I have are old photo's which are the post card variety with Redruth on the back of them so I am assuming that they perhaps would have lived arround Redruth/Helston/ Mullion. area. The photos are taken in a house and garden so I don't think that they are holiday snaps and I have been told that this was were she lived before joing the WAAF in 1942. Are there any places wer old school records are kept. I did try the Air Force a few years ago and they did not have any school information recorded only her next of kin. Many thanks for any information that can be give.

Anne-Marie Thompson (Thornborrow)

Following on from this family, brother Thomas Steel Thornborrow married Jane Hall (c1867) in 1896, Preston. He died in 1899, only 1 child I can see on Lancs bmd - John 1897, reg Preston sub district Broughton. Jane appears to be a widow in 1911 a domestic servant.

William married a Mary J (maybe Bell) in Whitehaven in 1890, she died in 1897 but they had 3 children born Whitehaven. Two were on the 1911 census with William in Barrow in Furness - Gilbert Edwin (17) and Annie Aileen (15), think the other child was Mary Elizabeth (1892), but she is not with him in 1911. William married Elizabeth Dodd in 1899 - she and her mother are with William on 1911 census.

They appear to have remained in Barrow as both Gilbert & Annie married there. Possible death for William in 1914 (but there were 2 living in Barrow of similar age) and Elizabeth in 1925.

That leaves Frank, who I haven't looked for yet. And Edith the mother - and I haven't found anything concrete on her as yet.

Just to confirm I think we have the right family, Ada daughter of Edith and born 1893. When Ediths sister died, probate was granted to Ada Bickle (wife of William Bickle);

Emma Thornborrow
Probate Date:5 Mar 1957
Death Date:10 Feb 1957
Death Place:Westmorland, England

Emma, spinster of 6 Goodley-dale, Windermere.

So obviously not one of the elderley aunts in Cornwall - unless she live there for a while.


Registry:

Carlisle

Thank you all for your valuable information which has given me renewed hope.

I have one more question my mother Doris Evelyn Thornborrow was raised by two elderly Aunts in Cornwall of whom I don't know names and addresses but think they lived in Redruth/Helton area. Is there any old school records that I can search.

Many thanks for any info. Anne-Marie

If the Ada Bickle/Davies is the correct one, I thing whoever registered this death got her age a year out:

Ada Davies
Birth Date:7 Apr 1892
Date of Registration:Jun 1978
Age at Death:86
Registration district:Birkenhead
Inferred County:Merseyside
Volume:37
Page:0847

From April 1974 Bebington came under the Birkenhead registration district. Chances are high that they were both buried or cremated at Landican Cemetery, Arrow Park Road. Wirral Archives have been very helpful in the past in looking up burial records, could be worth contacting them?

Good spot Andy, it would make Stephen a similar age to Ada (if the 1893 Ada is correct), he was 69 when he died.

and....


England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
about Stephen Davies

Name:Stephen Davies
Probate Date:22 Dec 1964
Death Date:30 Oct 1964
Death Place:Cheshire, England
Registry:Liverpool, England

41 Higher Bebington Road, Bebington
>>>>>Probate to Ada Davies


Andy

1959 marriage as found by Flip

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page

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Marriages Mar 1959 (>99%)
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BICKLE Ada DAVIES Wirral 10a 1687 Scan available - click to view
DAVIES Stephen BICKLE Wirral 10a 1687


Andy

This could be Daisy's death:

First name(s) DAISY
Last name BICKLE
Birth year 1912
Death quarter 4
Death year 1971
District WESTMINSTER
County London
Volume 5E
Page 1995

Maybe they got divorced, there's no death for Ada that I can see - but there is a marriage on the Wirrall for Ada Bickle to a Davies (1959). She had connections to Chester area as that is where her daughter was born.

This could be completely wrong though.

Well spotted Flip- think you may be on to something

She was on Ers at 123 Lillinton street as Ada Bickles until 1959, but as Gritty has posted was not there in 1960 onwards.

1960 was the only year Bill and Daisy Bickles appeared at that address - they were together at 91 Cambridge street in 1956 - so maybe William moved out to live with her. They are around on ERs as William & Daisy after 1961.

There is a marriage between William Bickle & Daisy in the March quarter 1959, could be related.

In 1960 Ada's no longer registered at Lillington Street- which might suggest a move or her poosible death between 56-60?

Persons living at 123 Lillington Street in 1960:
Bill Bickles
Daisy Bickles
Charles S Hawkins
Emily Hawkins
Janet Hawkins
Rita Hibberd

In 1955/6 Ada is still at Lillington Street but has no William with her. Others in household:
Charles S Hawkins
Emily Hawkins
Rita Hibberd

Ada Bickle
123 Lillington Street
Year: 1946
County or Borough: City of London
Ward or Division/Constituency: London and Westminster

Others in household:
William Bickle
Emily Hawkins
Rita Hibberd
James B Morfitt
Nellie Morfitt
Doris E Thornborrow

Edit: Still at this address in 1952

Elaine,

I meant to mention that I think your information sounds like the closest to what I need and will research this more.

Many thanks.

There were no family witnesses at the marriage of William & Ada that I can see,

Anne-Marie

Thank you all for your speedy replies the information I am thrilled about and feel that I might be getting somewhere, I have also my mothers details sadly deceased when I was 4 years old and I did not know my father but now have quite a bit of information on him.

Doris Evelyn Thornborrow born 2nd March 1922 & died September 1956 in Nottingham she married just prior to this date to Raymond Cooper.

The last known address of my grandmother (Ada Thornborrow) was Lillington Street, Westminster. and that was the last contact we had in 1955/6.

Thank you again.

Anne-Marie

So who was the Doris Thornborrow living with Ada/William Bickle 1950/52/53 - could this be her daughter? Also with them in 1949, recorded as a service voter.

Born 1922 according in Chester I think, and married Cooper in 1956.

London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 about Ada Thornborrow
Name: Ada Thornborrow
Year: 1934
County or Borough: Kensington and Chelsea
Ward or Division/Constituency: Kensington
Street address: 18 PITT STREET-ron