I am going to presume that this is your Grandfather Name: Harry Stidder Gender: Male Age: 18 Birth Date: abt 1911 Departure Date: 6 Dec 1929 Port of Departure: Southampton, England Destination Port: Wellington, New Zealand Ship Name: Tainui Shipping Line: Shaw Savill and Albion Co, Ltd Official Number: 124507 Master: W P Clifton Mogg I find it interesting, if irritating (no home address) that he and so many others are from the Salvation Army and all do farm work. Mostly I find it odd that so few Stidders are showing in the census when I see one is a RR worker and is shown in birth marriage and death records. Thinking bad handwriting. This is an interesting entry London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911 Name: Harry Stidder Age: 4 Birth Date: 15 Oct 1880 School: Saunders Road School Home: 160 Portland Rd Borough: Hammersmith and Fulham Admission Date: 10 Nov 1884 Parent: William Reference Number: LCC/EO/DIV01/SAU/AD/014 Source Information: Ancestry.com. London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. Eliz Not Today and Not without a Fight (Anon) For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes. (Dag Hammarskjold) On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Sonya Raw <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. > > I am looking for information on my maternal Grandfathers family. His > name was Harry STIDDER he was born in Glamorganshire Wales, immigrated > alone to New Zealand in 1929 and died here in 1990. > The information I have is from my mother and is quite sparce. > I have been told that his birth was never registered in an oversight by > the midwife who had 5 deliveries on the night. His Mother was born ELLEN > JONES and married a HARRY JOHN STIDDER who was killed in WW1 in 1916 > Ellen used to sing in the Music Halls in Cardiff post WW1 and remarried > and EDWARD MORRISEY in 1937 (I have found the marriage record for this > marriage). > My Grandfather lists her as his next of kin on his NZ WW2 enlistment > documents as Ellen Stidder of 66 Cowbridge Road, Glamorganshire, Wales > and I have the address of 2 Redlavar Street, Cardiff as being her final > residence until her death which was sometime around 1960. > My Grandfather also correponded with an uncle in Wales EDWARD STIDDER > who was still living when Ellen passed away but contact was then lost. > There has also been mention of relations in England by the family name > of GRIFFITH. > > I have searched through Ancestary UK the cencus and free BDM and public > member records and apart from the marraige to Morrisey in 1937 cannot > find matches for the Stidder men or Morrisey and there are so many Ellen > Jones that without some proper dates it is a pointless search. > > Any recommendations on the best way forward would be greatly appreciated > > Sonya Raw > > > -- > > To send to the list send to [email protected] > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > This site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be > found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >