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Trying to find descendents of Mary CURTIS -Walthem

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Frances

Frances Report 22 Nov 2009 10:59

Mable CURTIS my grandmother lost contact with her brothers and sisters when her mother died in 1922. Family stories suggest they fell out because everything was left to the boys.
In the 1901 census I have Mable & her siblings living with their parents in Walthemstow :-
Beatrice aged 15
William aged 13
Mabel aged 11
Albert aged 8
George aged 1
In the 1911 census the father has died.
Beatrice is missing and I have been unable to find her or a marriage so I have not been able to search for her under another name. I understand that many women stayed out so not to be on the census due to the suffragette movement?
William is living at home
Mabel has moved out and is living and working in a public house
Albert is missing from home but I think I have him possible in the Royal Engineers
George is living at home & a scholar.

I have not been able to find any further trace of them since them. One further family story suggests one of the brothers joined the Police to avoid being joined up into the Army in WWI & was sent to guard a Zepplin air ship that had crashed in the area but I can find no trace of his joining up during a search of the Police Records at the National Archives.

I know that Albert is alive in 1922 as he reported his mothers death & is recorded on the death certificate.

Any help or suggestions of what else I can try or records to search would be gratefully received and followed up as I really feel I’ve hit a brick wall. I want to be able to solve this mystery for my mum who grew up without any Aunts or Uncles on either side of her family as her mother also split up with her husband so had nothing to do with that side of the family either! My mother is now nearly 80 and I feel time is running out.