On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:34:15 +0200, Hugh Watkins <[email protected]> wrote: >Graeme wrote: >> I am trying to find what happened to Alfred Cecil Gordon Rush after WW1. >> Born 1886 in Southwark, Surrey, England, he married Rosina Clayson in 1909. >> He joined the Royal Engineers as a sapper (private) and that is the last I >> can find about him. He's not on the cwgc site so presumably survived the >> war. One rumour is that he emigrated to Canada without his wife who remained >> living in Surrey. >> >> Anyone come across him? >> If they are the only Rush + Clayson pairing then the last matching birth in England and Wales is in Croydon registration district in 1922. There is no match in the Scottish death indexes for "Alfred Rush" (i.e. with/without the other names/initials) born 1886 +/-2; Ireland has no matches up to 1958. There is a possibly suspicious marriage in Brentford RD in Dec 1928 Qtr :- Alfred C RUSH and Kathleen E F GREEN Unfortunately Canada does not seem to be a good place for losing anyone in after Big Mistake 1 although he does not come up on any of the passenger lists currently on Ancestry which might through some uncertain suspicion on the "gone to Canada" story unless he went after 1935. > > what was his civilian trade? > >Hugh W

In message <[email protected]> Charles Ellson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:34:15 +0200, Hugh Watkins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Graeme wrote: > > > I am trying to find what happened to Alfred Cecil Gordon Rush after > > > WW1. Born 1886 in Southwark, Surrey, England, he married Rosina Clayson > > > in 1909. He joined the Royal Engineers as a sapper (private) and that > > > is the last I can find about him. He's not on the cwgc site so > > > presumably survived the war. One rumour is that he emigrated to Canada > > > without his wife who remained living in Surrey. > > > > > > Anyone come across him? > > > > If they are the only Rush + Clayson pairing then the last matching birth in > England and Wales is in Croydon registration district in 1922. That's the right mother but she gave the child her married name, I believe the father's name was Wood. > > There is no match in the Scottish death indexes for "Alfred Rush" (i.e. > with/without the other names/initials) born 1886 +/-2; Ireland has no > matches up to 1958. Thanks for looking. > > There is a possibly suspicious marriage in Brentford RD in Dec 1928 Qtr :- > Alfred C RUSH and Kathleen E F GREEN Hadn't spotted that one. > > Unfortunately Canada does not seem to be a good place for losing anyone in > after Big Mistake 1 although he does not come up on any of the passenger > lists currently on Ancestry which might through some uncertain suspicion on > the "gone to Canada" story unless he went after 1935. > At the moment it's only a family rumour. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>