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Plymouth Marshalls

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Cherry

Cherry Report 19 Dec 2007 20:49

Thank you Kathryn B, you are spot on! My father's name was definitely Edred not Eldred, it's one of those names that people tend to guess at.
Thanks to Pete also, these are my grandparents.

Pete

Pete Report 17 Dec 2007 20:44

From the Devon FHS Plymouth marriage index:

Groom MARSHALL Oswald
Bride: LEIGH Henrietta Louisa
Date 15 March 1902
Church ST Jude, Plymouth

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 17 Dec 2007 02:13

If this is your dad:


Name: Eldred James L Marshall
Year of Registration: 1905
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Plymouth
County: Devon
Volume: 5b
Page: 228


one of you has spelled it wrong. ;)


Father's marriage:

Name: Oswald Marshall
Year of Registration: 1902
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Plymouth
County: Devon
Volume: 5b
Page: 439

Most likely to Henrietta Louisa Leigh?


Oswald in 1881:


Name: Oswald Marshall
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
Relation: Step Son
Gender: Male
Where born: Plymouth, Devon, England

Civil Parish: Plymouth Charles The Martyr
County/Island: Devon
Country: England

Street address: 26 Hill Park Cresc
Occupation: Painter

Registration district: Plymouth
Sub-registration district: Charles
ED, institution, or vessel: 8a

Mary Crosby 35
Harriet Marshall 56
Henry Marshall 14
Oswald Marshall 26
Annie Waller 20


With widowed father in 1861:


Name: Oswald Marshall
Age: 6
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Philip J
Gender: Male
Where born: Stoke Damerel, Devon, England

Civil Parish: Stoke Damerel
Town: Devonport
County/Island: Devon
Country: England


Registration district: Stoke Damerel
Sub-registration district: Stoke
ED, institution, or vessel: 5
Household schedule number: 35

Jane Brown 18
Jonathan Jones 72 - uncle of head of household
Emily Marshall 8
Francis I Marshall 12
Laura S Marshall 11
Oswald Marshall 6
Philip J Marshall 48
Annie H Westlake 26


It seems that Philip remarried, and then died before his second wife.


Just some names that might help, for tracking down descendants of your dad's aunts and uncles.

One suspects that the spelling of your dad's name in the record is the error; there was a much older Edred (correct per the census image) in the vicinity in 1901:


Name: Edred Marshall
Age: 74
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1827
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Helena O
Gender: Male
Where born: Plymouth, Devon, England

Civil Parish: Tavistock
Ecclesiastical parish: Tavistock St Eustachius
Town: Tavistock
County/Island: Devon
Country: England

Registration district: Tavistock
Sub-registration district: Tavistock
ED, institution, or vessel: 4
Household schedule number: 171

Bessie Authors 21
William Harry 22
Ada C Marshall 39
Edred Marshall 74
Florence Marshall 46
Helena O Marshall 77
Kate Marshall 41
Mary Mills 62
Mary Treffry 27
Emily Wright 28


The spare names in the various households are pretty much all servants.

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Cherry

Cherry Report 16 Dec 2007 22:37

I'm looking for any relatives of my father Edred James Leigh Marshall, of Plymouth, his father was Oswald Marshall b 1855, Stoke Damerel? I am missing half my family, never met any of my father's relations.
Cherry