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I have just found a mention of Gladys on the tree, it calls her 'Skinner', and a note says she was a corseteer in Niagara Falls. Wether this is a married or single name I don't know.

I'm not finding any match for Gladys under any surname.

If she was born in Ontario, out of luck -- 100 year cutoff rule.

If she's in the tree, there is a birthdate???

Any idea at all of when Elizabeth left England?

Sorry no idea to all those questions.But in the very faded tree it seems to indicate that she married so Skinner might be a married name

Will try and find out some more info . tomorrow .Definitelt want to keep digging in the war records though.Over and out.B

Elizabeth Annie Afford Woodley's birth, just for ref:

Births Jun 1874
Afford Elizabeth Ann Kensington 1a 133

-- place/date of birth matches 1911 census record posted by Delboy:

WOODLEY, ANNIE HEAD MARRIED 37 MONTHLY NURSE KENSINGTON
WOODLEY, ANNIE DAUGHTER SINGLE 16 SUNBURY ON THAMES
East Ham

There just isn't a Gladys born with any surnames that match up, so she must have been born in Canada. Possibly Elizabeth married a Skinner here ...

There are these two marriages in Ontario:

Henry Thomas Fisher
Elizabeth Annie Woodley
York (Toronto)
- 1915 -- ???
- no Elizabeth Ann* Woodley was born in Canada

W. M Cunningham
Elizabeth Ann Woodley
Brant
- this one seems to have been too early

Ontario marriage records should give the parties' ages, places of birth and parents' names. I don't pay for access. We'll wait for someone who does to happen by, and if not I'll send out a request.

I wonder if Gladys was born here in the UK as Gladys Becker? Would there be any records for Elizabeth/Gladys emigrating to Canada after the divorce? This might indicate if Gladys was born here in the Uk orCanada. I think it might be likely she was brought up partly if not totally by George and Ethel Woodley who had no children , perhaps a convenient for all so Elizabeth Ann clould remarry ?

Merchant Navy WW1 medal records are online at the documentsonline site but there's no record for Walter. There may be records for him at the National Archives if he was in the Merchant Navy but records for this period are a bit thin on the ground.

About the hospital record - does Bernice mean records for when he is shown in hospital on the census rather than that he died in hospital? If so, she could access any records assuming that they have survived.

Check here for existence of any records for the particular hospital

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/

Any records would be good- there seem to be so few of them- its so sad that he almost seems to have been wiped out

Bernice -- you can look for Gladys Becker births as well as we can!

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl

I've looked for her under every surname combination I could think of, but you should give it a go too.

I've also looked for passenger records, which again you can search free:

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/passengerListPersonSearchStart.action

(pay to see details), but you hav to use a surname, and I haven't had any luck with any likely surname. But again, you can give that a go.


Bernice, re annielaurie's question, by hospital records, I assumed you meant for when he died - ?

Hello Bernice. We have just seen your thread about the Woodleys of Hounslow. My husband ,John Hancock, lived at 52 Granville Avenue, Hounslow until 1958.His family Percy and Kitty knew the Woodleys very well and Edna nursed John at home when he had rheumatic fever. George taught John to ride motor cycles around 1949. John has great regard for George and has often said he wishes he knew where George went to. Edna and her fiancee(who was a pilot visited John's parents when they were evacuated to Ambleside during the war.
If you would like to know us please can you reply? Regards John and Betty Hancock(Egham) :-D

Hi Betty

It might be an idea to contact Bernice directly by clicking on her name in the first post, genesreunited will notify her that you have sent her a message.

also may I recommend that you please remove your email address from your post (genesreunited doesn't allow it).

kind regards