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Have you checked this site out, it may give you a bit more info?

https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/records/1742375/private-harry-king-british-army-black-watch-royal-highlanders/

Yes, Harry’s parents Edward and Mary were married in Edinburgh 1887. It was a fragment of the original certificate that I got from my Dad which he had in my Grandfather John George’s effects some 15 years which started me on the genealogy trail.
Mary Stenhouse was not married previously but she was an illegitimate child so I have used her mother’s maiden name in my searches. As it happens her mother married her father after Mary was born.
I have applied to GRO giving the information I have so we shall see what comes back if anything.

SylviaInCanada
I suspect that the birth info is more likely to be an error in transcription or another, unrelated child

The parents married in Edinburgh 1887 which rules out a birth from a previous marriage

Also below...

Chris :)

UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 (Ancestry)

(Harry King 2629) (To whom Authorised, Mother, Mary Dick?)

This is the registration for Henry King born 1894, from the new GRO Index

KING, HENRY mmn BASHAM
GRO Reference: 1894 S Quarter in ST. OLAVE. SOUTHWARK Volume 01D Page 286


mother's maiden name is wrong???????????????


where were Edward John and Mary Whyte Stenhouse married?

Do you have their marriage certificate.

Is it possible that

a) Mary had been married before

or

b) Harry was the illegitimate child of Edward John and another woman who was raised by Mary?

Thanks greyghost I will look into this.

You can ask GRO to search for a birth registration - use name and mmn. They will look for the year you ask for - (e.g. put 01/01/1894) and 1 year either side. This is not available at the £6 pdf price, but full price only. If nothing is found you will get a refund.

Thanks for your responses GlassgowLass and Catherine.
I don’t mean to sound ungrateful but I already have all the information and press clippings you refer to in you posts but thanks anyway for your input. I live in Kirkcaldy and have access to FFP archive at the library. The photo is also mine from an original photo taken with his brother Charles written on the back “Somewhere in France May 1916” signed by Harry and Charles.
With regards to Henry King born in St Olave 1894 1d 286 the mother’s surname is incorrect. I have thought about applying for this certificate just in case it has been transcribed incorrectly.
I appreciate your help.

Better twice than not at all. :-)

1901 gives birth place as St. Olave, so birth may be correct:-

Name: Harry King
Age: 6
Estimated birth year: abt 1895
Relation to Head: Son
Gender: Male
Father: Edward J King
Mother: Mary King
Birth Place: SE, St Olave, London, England
Civil Parish: Rotherhithe
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Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address:
Occupation:
Condition as to marriage:
Education:
Employment status:
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Registration district: St Olave Southwark
Sub-registration district: Rotherhithe
ED, institution, or vessel: 01
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 397
Folio: 30
Page Number: 51
Household schedule number: 308
Household Members:
Name Age
Edward J King 45
Mary King 31
Harry King 6
Eliza King 4
Edward King 2
David Steinhouse 25

There is this birth registration in St Olave

Sep 1894

King Henry St. Olave 1d 286


Edit....
Oops Catherine. We were posting at the same time

??

Henry King
England and Wales Birth Registration Index
Name Henry King
Event Type Birth Registration
Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year 1894
Registration District St. Olave Bermondsey
County London
Event Place St. Olave Bermondsey, London, England
Volume 1D
Page 286
Line Number 40

A tree on ancestry gives this

Harry KING
1894–1916
BIRTH 1894 • Bermondsey, Surrey
DEATH 25 SEP 1916 • Somme, France


Parents
Edward John KING
1858–1902


Mary Whyte STENHOUSE
1868–1936


they also have a photo

EDIT:- just realised that the tree is yours Brian. :-S

This states that he was born in London and enlisted in Kirkcaldy, Fife

Harry King
Birth Place: London **
Death Date: 25 Sep 1916
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire
Rank: Private
Regiment: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Battalion: 1st Battalion
Regimental Number: 2629
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre

Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian 18 November 1916
Death announcement and poem was inserted by his brother Charley who was in the BEF

A second announcement was made by his "parents
"Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian 21 October 1916

This does indeed state that Harry was 21yrs old

I have been searching online for Birth Record of Harry King my Great Uncle. According to 1901 English Census and 1911 Scottish Census he was born circa 1894 in Rotherhithe. I have traced and have copies of Birth Certificates for his 3 brothers Charles, Harold Edward, and my Grand Father John George plus 2 sisters born 8 years apart who have the same names Elizabeth Martha. The first Elizabeth Martha died 1891. I have searched the General register Office website for all males and females in England with the surname KING and with mother's surname STENHOUSE from 1890-1902. It only returns the information for the children I have details for. No Harry or derivative of that name. I have also searched without his mothers surname but restricted the search to St Olave where all the other births were registered. As Mary STENHOUSE was Scottish and returned to Scotland and remarried in 1905 after her husband Edward John King died in 1902 I have searched Scotland's People in case she had travelled to Scotland circa 1894 and gave birth to Harry there. Nothing, likewise I have search the NI register and nothing there either.
I know Harry did exist as I have a photo of him and know he joined The Black Watch Royal Highlanders prior to WW1 and he died in the Somme 25th September 1916.
I am at a loss now and wondered if anyone has any idea where I should search next.
Thanks in anticipation.
Brian