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Both Ivan and Leonard have a middle name beginning with G. Is this a clue to their father's name?

Rose

Samantha,

She was listed as Bessie when she married and died. These are formal documents which seem to suggest she was actually a Bessie and not an Elizabeth.

Rose

Samantha,
I have posted a marriage of Bessie Ebdon to Reginald Seller.
You could get that marriage certificate to confirm Father's name.
If the death that I posted was correct, they believe she was born in 1894, which does not fit with the Elizabeth Annie Ebdon born 1898, father Walter.

No her father was called Walter not John, she was known as Bessie but her name was Elizabeth.

1901 England Census
Bessie Elsdon
Age: 6 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1895
Relation: Daughter Father's name: John Elsdon Mother's name: Bessie Elsdon Gender: Female Where born: Exeter, Devon, England Civil parish: Exeter Ecclesiastical parish: St Sidwell County/Island: Devon Country: England registration district: Exeter Sub-registration district: Exeter ED, institution, or vessel: 8 Household schedule number: 395 Piece: 2042 Folio: 58 Page Number: 58

John Elsdon 40 bricklayer Exmouth
Bessie Elsdon 38 Barnstable
Mark Elsdon 11
Bessie Elsdon 6
Danforth Elsdon 2
Frederich Elsdon 5 Months

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 2042; Folio: 58; Page: 58.

His first name was Reginald, mum said he wasnt a very nice man.

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Births Mar 1895 (>99%)
Ebdon Bessie Exeter 5b 75

1911
NEWMAN, Fanny Maria Head Widow F 62 1849 Gentlewoman Plymouth
ROWE, Charlotte Elizabeth Visitor Spinster F 72 1839 Gentlewoman Plymstock
PODEINHORNE, Blanch Mary Visitor Married F 48 1863 None Plymstock
SEUGE, Dora Elizabeth Servant Single F 22 1889 Barnstaple
EBDEN, Bessie Servant Single F 16 1895 Domestic Servant Exeter

RG number: RG14 Piece: 12670 Reference: RG14PN12670 RG78PN728 RD271 SD1 ED2 SN122
Registration District: Exeter Sub District: Exeter Enumeration District: 2 Parish: Exeter Address: 6 Queen's Crescent York Road Exeter County: Devonshire

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Bessie Seller
Birth Date: 12 Dec 1894
Death Registration Month/Year: Apr 1987
Age at death (estimated): 92
Registration district: Windsor and Maidenhead
Inferred County: Berkshire
Volume: 19
Page: 648

Patchem, I think that's actually a pretty good find!

Well, if you wish to pursue this line you need her marriage cert. What was her husband's first name?
Jan

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Bessie Ebdon
Spouse Surname: Seller
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1921
Registration district: Maidenhead
Registration county (inferred): Berkshire
Volume Number: 2c
Page Number: 983
Reginald Seller Ebdon Jan-Feb-Mar 1921 Maidenhead Berkshire

I do remember my mum saying something about her father being called Walter so this could be a good start.

Yes she did marry later and her surname changed to Sellers.

When she lived in devon the address was 28 Alfington Road, Ottery St Mary, Devon.

I remember as a child going to visit her on a sunday afternoon and she lived in Maidenhead but i was only small at the time.

Are you certain of her birth year? Where is this from?

Possibility only:

EBDON, Walter Head Married M 56 1855 Farm Labourer Tipton St Johns London VIEW
EBDON, Edith Wife Married
31 years F 53 1858 Whimple Devon VIEW
EBDON, Henry Charles Son Single M 18 1893 Horseman On Farm Payhembury Devon VIEW
EBDON, Elizabeth Annie Daughter F 13 1898 School Buckerell Devon VIEW
RG number:
RG14 Piece:
12525 Reference:
RG14PN12525 RG78PN720 RD269 SD1 ED1 SN80

Registration District:
Honiton Sub District:
Honiton Enumeration District:
1 Parish:
Awliscombe

Address:
Knowle Cottage Awliscombe Honiton County:
Devonshire

Samantha, it's important to answer queries as they help in the search.
We need to know if she ever married, and if you have any addresses at all.
Impossible for us to say if the above births are yours or not, and doesn't matter for the time being really.
Jan

Could Douglas & Frederick been cousins to Ivan & Leonard by any chance.

The boys wre born before 1911 one in 1915 and the other in 1918, are we sure that Douglas Ebdon & Frederick Ebdon are also related as i only know of two brothers Leonard & Ivan.
The mother Elizabeth was born in 1898 im not to sure where she was in 1911, she died in 1987/9 in maidenhead Berkshire.

Have you got an address on a birth cert? There are very few Elizabeth Ebdon's in Devon 1911, but of course she might have come from elsewhere.
Jan

Do you know when your grandfather's mother died, or where?
Thanks