Adding to Jeans post There is a LANCASTER to MILLS marriage in 1917 in Chorlton so that Chorlton birth may be theirs >From passenger lists On the 8th May 1922 a Victor P LANCASTER 39 a fitter with wife Annie 38 and child Violet A age 5 are on the Largs Bay on the way to Australia from London On the 21st Oct 1927 the same family are on their way to Adelaide on the Maloja A Violet A LANCASTER marries a Gordon R SCOBLE in 1937 at Worthing A Violet SCOBLE age 31 of 61 Balcombe Avenue Worthing Sussex a housewife with son Derek age 6 is returning to Southampton on the Queen Mary in April 1948 In 1960 a Derek SCOBLE b1942 a student is returning to Southampton on the Queen Mary address Old Hall Stockton Beccles UK citizen Last permanent residence USA Future intended permanent residence USA A Gordon R SCOBLE dies in 1962 registered Norwich When Derek leaves the UK in 1959 he gives a Norfolk address Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > Hallo, > > Maybe I am teaching my grandmother to suck eggs - but I have just done a brief search on a > commercial site: > > Victor Pearson was born Suffolk (Lowestoft) 3Q 1883, married 3Q 1910 East Preston > at 1901 census was ??? engineer (great thick line across first word/s) > 1911 census mill engineer fitter with wife - no children - married under one year > > I tried for Lancaster/Mills births - there are 5 pages for early 1911 and foreign births, but 2 > genuine Lancaster Mills births in 1917 - I have no idea if either is right. But during the war, he > could have worked anywhere and his wife might have gone with him - or to family or friends. > > Here goes > > Ernest R born Chorlton (Manchester) 4Q 1917 > Violet A born 1Q 1917 Greenwich. > > I doubt that both could be theirs - though it is just possible if the first were a delayed > registration. > > Then of course they could have had children abroad.... > > VPL died in Worthing in 1964 4Q aged 81. > > > Jean Wood