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ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 2 Jan 2021 16:12

Just to add (because I'm at a loose end this afternoon!) - though chances are that you've already got all this:


Births of Charles and siblings - two of whom will be the closed records in 1939:

Births Jun 1915 (>99%)
Harness Harry Lusby Louth 7a 1021

Births Mar 1919 (>99%)
Harnes Jack Lusby Louth 7a 725

Births Dec 1927 (>99%)
Harness Bertie P Lusby Horncastle 7a 770

Births Sep 1926 (>99%)
Harness Charles R Lusby Horncastle 7a 841

Middle name is Rupert, on GRO site.


Bertie's death in 2018:

HARNESS, BERTIE PHILIP 1927
GRO Reference: DOR Q4/2018 in LINCOLNSHIRE (609-1N) Entry Number 518110522

HARNESS, BERTIE PHILIP M 1927
GRO Reference: DOR Q4/2018 in LINCOLNSHIRE (609-1N) Entry Number 518110522



Brother Harry:

Harry Harness
in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
Name: Harry Harness
Birth Year: abt 1915
Age: 51
Death Place: Western Australia
Father's Name: Harry
Mother's Name: Violet
Registration Year: 1966
Registration Place: Fremantle, Western Australia
Registration Number: 671/66


Jack died on 22 June 1944 in a POW camp in Osaka, Japan.

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

Sidami

Sidami Report 1 Jan 2021 21:04

Thankyou

Researching:
Ringrose from Countesthorpe Lord and Burley from Countesthorpe...Dixon Dawson Wood and Wilkinson from Caistor ,Starkey and Wood from Edendam. Hare from Horncastle.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 1 Jan 2021 20:44


His parents' marriage:

Marriages Jun 1911 (>99%)
Harness Harry Louth 7a 1573
Lusby Gladys V Louth 7a 1573


Harry Harness
in the England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973
Name: Harry Harness
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Birth Date: 1887
Marriage Date: 1911
Marriage Place: Kelstern, Lincoln, England
Father: Thomas Harness
Spouse: Gladys Violette Lusby
FHL Film Number: 989802
Reference ID: 2:1JV4P4S



Charles's widowed mother (and Charles himself) in 1939:

Gladys V Harness
in the 1939 England and Wales Register
Name: Gladys V Harness
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 7 May 1890
Residence Year: 1939
Address: Church Lane
Residence Place: Horncastle, Lincolnshire (Parts of Lindsey), England
Occupation: Widows Pension, Unpaid, Domestic Duties
Line Number: 35
Schedule Number: 52
Sub Schedule Number: 1
Enumeration District: TNJH
Borough: Horncastle
Registration district: 419-1
Household Members Age
Charles R Harness 53 <<<<<<<< [Mistranscribed - DOB 8 Aug 1926.]
Gladys V Harness 49
Margaret Langston 8
This record is officially closed.
This record is officially closed.

Charles is listed as at school (Orphans Pension)



Father's death:

Harry Harness
in the England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
Name: Harry Harness
Gender: Male
Age: 48
Birth Date: 1887
Death Place: Lincoln, England
Burial Date: 31 Aug 1935
FHL Film Number: 1541958
Reference ID: p 88 n 704

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

Sidami

Sidami Report 1 Jan 2021 20:14

For Charles R Harness born Lincs 1926 Thankyou

Researching:
Ringrose from Countesthorpe Lord and Burley from Countesthorpe...Dixon Dawson Wood and Wilkinson from Caistor ,Starkey and Wood from Edendam. Hare from Horncastle.