I’ve been attempting to identify several men who were identified by their nicknames in a World War I era photo that features my great-grandfather, including “Huff” Hobbs.
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Charles Henry Webb and Alice Cooper
Charles Henry Webb married Alice Cooper in 1917. They had at least one child together.
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Gertrude Webb and George Povey
Records suggest that Gertrude Webb was blind and attended Institute for Blind Welfare and School for the Partially Sighted in Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire.
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Mary Elizabeth Webb and William Beswick
I haven’t been able to locate a marriage record for Mary Elizabeth Webb and her “husband” William Beswick, but they had five known children.
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Eleanor Webb and Her “Husbands”
My great-aunt Eleanor Webb was a bit of an outlier – I wasn’t even aware she existed until I found her marriage record in Ontario.
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Dorothy Griffin and Robert Parry
Both of Dorothy and Robert Parry’s sons excelled in academics prior to enlisting with the Royal Canadian Air Force. One of them was a prisoner of war in Germany.
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John Garrow Jr. and Bridget Dillon
I have been unsuccessful in locating a marriage record for John Garrow and Bridget Dillon, but they settled in Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
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75th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Forces, 11th Brigade
I found this fantastic postcard amongst my grandmother’s photo albums. My great grandfather, Arthur Bird Griffin is on the left behind the big guy in the front.
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Edward Clement Griffin and Ellen Leaker
At age 22, Edward Clement Griffin married Ellen Leaker (who was 29) on April 4, 1899, at St. Andrew’s Church in Banwell, Somerset, England.
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Ernest Bernard Griffin and Ada Annie Binning
Only weeks after the English Census, Ernest Bernard Griffin married Ada Annie Binning on April 20, 1901,at St. Mary’s Church in Yatton, Somerset, England.
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