Who is Huff Hobbs?
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.
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.
Charles Henry Webb married Alice Cooper in 1917. They had at least one child together.
Records suggest that Gertrude Webb was blind and attended Institute for Blind Welfare and School for the Partially Sighted in Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire.
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.
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.
I have been unsuccessful in locating a marriage record for John Garrow and Bridget Dillon, but they settled in Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
The civil registration marriage index suggests that Thomas Alfred Webb married Emma Alice Dodd early in 1882 (the Banns and certificate have not been located).
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.
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.
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.
At the age of 35, Samuel Austin Griffin married Clara Gertrude Smith on August 18, 1913, at the Church of All Saints in Kingston Seymour.
John Whalen was born in 1790 in Clonmore, Carlow, Ireland, the son of Patrick. He married Bridget Doyle before 1812.