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Ooops...........i don't know why i assumed "Gwyer" was a "She"! :-S

Sounds like he had an interesting job:

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
Name: Gwyer Burrows Willey
Arrival Date: 22 Sep 1943
Birth Year: abt 1904
Birth Location: England
Birth Location Other: Newport
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: English
Port of Departure: Hamilton, Bermuda
Port of Arrival: La Guardia airport. New York
Airline: Pan American Airways

He was part of a British Admiralty delegation and had been working in HM Government dockyards in Bermuda. He was in US in transit back to England where his permanent address was 60 Channel PK Ave., Plymouth.

There are quite a few transatlantic records for Gwyer Burrows Willey - this is the earliest I could see:

Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935
Name: Guide Gwyer Burrows Willie [Gwyer Burrows Willey]
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1905
Birth Country: England
Date of Arrival: 19 Aug 1928
Vessel: Megantic
Port of Arrival: Quebec
Port of Departure: Southampton, England
Roll: T-14747

Additional info on record - he was born Newport and passage was paid by Government. He was a deaman (seaman?) and was going to be a farmer. His family (which were to follow) were wife Mrs B Willey (age 22) of 27 Wolsden Street, Plymouth and children Buly age 1 and George 7/12

Further info from CWGC on that 1917 death:

WILLEY, J

Rank: Private
Service No: L/3097
Date of Death: 31/10/1917
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) and 42nd Sqdn. Royal Flying Corps
Grave Reference III. E. 81.
Cemetery BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD

Additional Information:

Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Willey. Husband of Mary L. Willey, of 48, North View, Westbury Park, Bristol.

Doesn't seem to tie in?

I'm not seeing a marriage or death for James Highman....

??
UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
about James Willey
Name: James Willey
Birth Place: Westbury-on-trym, Glos.
Residence: Bristol
Death Date: 31 Oct 1917
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Bristol
Rank: Private
Regiment: Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps)
Battalion: 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridges Own)
Number: 3097
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005
about Edward B Willey
Name: Edward B Willey
Spouse Name: Primrose M Winter
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1938
Registration district: Exeter
Inferred County: Devon
Volume Number: 5b
Page Number: 239


England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2006
about Edward Berbank Willey
Name: Edward Berbank Willey
Birth Date: 8 Nov 1902
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1977
Age at Death: 74
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: West Midlands
Volume: 32
Page: 1284


England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
about Primrose Maud Winter
Name: Primrose Maud Winter
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1904
Registration district: Tiverton
Inferred County: Devon
Volume: 5b
Page: 375


England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2006
about Primrose M Willey
Name: Primrose M Willey
Birth Date: abt 1905
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1951
Age at Death: 46
Registration district: Bideford
Inferred County: Devon
Volume: 7a
Page: 442

3 children were born to Edward and Primrose.

I am not seeing a marriage or death for Gwyer although there is a passenger list for a Gwyer Willey on Ancesty.

I don't have access to it on Ancestry and it does not show on FMP.

Hi again Mark

Looking at the original image of the 1911 census........"Barrow" actually reads "Burrows"

The relationships of the children (Be it Son or Daughter) has been written in by a different hand.........possibly by the enumerator who has assumed that "Barrow" is a Son.

I think this is "Barrow"


Births Dec 1904 (>99%)
Willey Gwyer Burrows Newport M 11a 257

Edit: Gwyer is a Son!..........sorry.

The City of Newport is in the historic county of Monmouthshire, South Wales.

Births Sep 1909 (>99%)
WILLEY Ivy Virginia Newport, M. 11a 254

Isn't New Port South Wales

That's great safc

Another one........

??

Deaths Mar 1910 (>99%)
WILLEY Ivy Virginia 0 Newport, M. 11a 157

Name: James Willey
Event: Marriage
Event Date: 16 Dec 1893
Event Place: Bedminster, St John, Somersetshire, England
Gender: Female
Age:
Christening Date:
Marriage Date:
Marital Status: Single
Burial Date:
Father: James Highman Willey
Mother:
Spouse: Lillie Niblett
Spouse's Marital Status: Single
Spouse's Father: Isaac Niblett
Spouse's Mother:
Film Number: 4201946
Digital Folder Number: 4201946
Image Number: 00030

So Highman would be a middle name but seems to be used as a first name

Thank you PricklyHolly

Looking at children's births, I was wondering about these?

WILLEY Florence Lilian Bedminster Somerset 1894 Oct-Nov-Dec

WILLEY James Highman Bedminster Somerset 1896 Jul-Aug-Sep

WILLEY Edward Berbanl (reads Berbank) Bristol Gloucestershire 1902 Oct-Nov-Dec


Not finding a Barrow at all or anything that looks like it. :-(

2 Possible deaths.........

Deaths Dec 1894 (>99%)
WILLEY Rose May 0 Bedminster 5c 407

Deaths Sep 1896 (>99%)
Willey James 0 Bedminster 5c 398

Mark - I was going to have a look for James' death to see if there was a probate record but not seeing anything in Birmingham?

Just seen note at bottom - thanks

(6 children born, 4 living, 2 had died)

Very! :-)