Hi Julia Joseph BUNYAN aged 12 born Gosport, Hants, is an inmate of Workhouse Childrens Home (Boys) Abbeyhurst, Cheapside, Worksop Checking Vernon Street as an address, none are found in Worksop In 1901 there are two in Notts 8, Vernon Street, Nottingham 8, Vernon Street, Newark Upon Trent, Newark And in 1911 there are four under Notts Vernon Street Ilkeston Basford Nottinghamshire Vernon Street Shirebrook Mansfield Nottinghamshire Vernon Street Newark upon Trent Newark Nottinghamshire Vernon Street Nottingham Nottingham Nottinghamshire None of the above have a HEATH resident Searching for a HEATH to BUNYON marriage (if a HEATH is a grandfather) Finds a possible marriage Marriages Sep 1899 Boxall George Alverstoke 2b 1198 Bunyan Charles Joseph Alverstoke 2b 1198 Heath Jane Ellen Alverstoke 2b 1198 Stone Harriet Alverstoke 2b 1198 The above cert may be well worth getting to get further Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hello Notts List, > > Private Joseph Bunyan (Canadians) enlisted in the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force in 1915. > He states that he was born in Portsmouth [Hampshire] ca 1898 and gives his next of kin as his > Grandfather, Mr J? Heath, who lives at 8 Vernon Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. I have a date > of birth index for him in 1900, Alverstoke, Hampshire. It would not be unusual for young men > enlisting in WW1 to put up their age. He may also have arrived in Canada in 1913 as a 'farm boy'. > > Does Nottinghamshire have any directories on line which I could search, please? Also, I would be > interested to hear from anyone with a connection to Bunyan and Heath families. > > Many thanks > > Julia in Oz