I have looked further into this and it appears that William Wilfred Gladdish started life as William Wilfred Cladish. His marriage to my grandfathers sister has him as Gladdish and that agrees with his military records. But cant find a birth for Gladdish. There is a Stepehn Cladish 1901 England Census about Stephen Cladish on 1901 which would appear to be the correct family. Name: Stephen Cladish Age: 54 Estimated birth year: abt 1847 Relation: Head Spouse's name: Harriett Gender: Male Where born: Whitstable, Kent, England Civil parish: Northfleet Ecclesiastical parish: St Botolph County/Island: Kent Country: England Street Address: Registration district: Strood Sub-registration district: Northfleet ED, institution, or vessel: 5 Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 130 Household Members: Name Age Stephen Cladish 54 Harriett Cladish 50 Edward H Cladish 16 Horace A Cladish 14 Sidney J Cladish 9 William W Cladish 2 Found a baptism for Edward Charly Claddish. How can you just change the first letter of your surname? GLoria -----Original Message----- From: Lynne Berntsson [mailto:54berntsson@telia.com] Sent: 21 January 2010 11:07 To: gloria Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] GLADDISH Hi Gloria I have a Stephen Gladish on my tree but I have no other details other than he was a Labourer and he had a daughter called Sarah Ann (B) 1870 married to Albert Henry Lipscombe 21 Apr 1889 St Botolph Northfleet Kent Lynne ----- Original Message ----- From: "gloria" <zgloryerm2@ntlworld.com> To: <kent-eng@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:01 PM Subject: [KENT-ENG] GLADDISH > Has anybody got a connection to WILLIAM WILFRED GLADDISH c 1896 son of > STEPHEN GLADDISH? > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I see a birth for William Wilfred Cladish on FreeBMD. William Wilfred CLADISH Dec Qtr. 1894 Strood district Ref: 2a 517. This does make him rather older than shown in the 1901 census. You would think it would be easy to tell whether your child was 2 or 6 and it certainly looks like 2 on the census record. There are lots of Cladish births in Kent - no Gladish or Gladdish. I see Stephen, Harriet and family in 1891 still called Cladish although Stephen's place of birth has now moved from Whitstable to Canterbury (although I couldn't find one of the right age on FreeBMD and he doesn't appear in Canterbury baptisms). So who knows, perhaps William thought Gladdish sounded a bit classier! I assume they didn't check birth registration records for the marriage. Sue -----Original Message----- From: kent-eng-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:kent-eng-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of gloria Sent: 21 January 2010 12:16 To: kent-eng@rootsweb.com Subject: [KENT-ENG] FW: GLADDISH I have looked further into this and it appears that William Wilfred Gladdish started life as William Wilfred Cladish. His marriage to my grandfathers sister has him as Gladdish and that agrees with his military records. But cant find a birth for Gladdish. There is a Stepehn Cladish 1901 England Census about Stephen Cladish on 1901 which would appear to be the correct family. Name: Stephen Cladish Age: 54 Estimated birth year: abt 1847 Relation: Head Spouse's name: Harriett Gender: Male Where born: Whitstable, Kent, England Civil parish: Northfleet Ecclesiastical parish: St Botolph County/Island: Kent Country: England Street Address: Registration district: Strood Sub-registration district: Northfleet ED, institution, or vessel: 5 Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 130 Household Members: Name Age Stephen Cladish 54 Harriett Cladish 50 Edward H Cladish 16 Horace A Cladish 14 Sidney J Cladish 9 William W Cladish 2 Found a baptism for Edward Charly Claddish. How can you just change the first letter of your surname? GLoria -----Original Message----- From: Lynne Berntsson [mailto:54berntsson@telia.com] Sent: 21 January 2010 11:07 To: gloria Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] GLADDISH Hi Gloria I have a Stephen Gladish on my tree but I have no other details other than he was a Labourer and he had a daughter called Sarah Ann (B) 1870 married to Albert Henry Lipscombe 21 Apr 1889 St Botolph Northfleet Kent Lynne ----- Original Message ----- From: "gloria" <zgloryerm2@ntlworld.com> To: <kent-eng@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:01 PM Subject: [KENT-ENG] GLADDISH > Has anybody got a connection to WILLIAM WILFRED GLADDISH c 1896 son of > STEPHEN GLADDISH? > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message