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I have an obituary published in the Liverpool Echo 14th November 1918 for:-

WESLEY, November 7 in France Gordon A Wesley, Corporal Mounted Police, late Lancashire Hussars, 19, Croxteth Grove, Liverpool.

I have his entry on the Medal Rolls which states:-


Wesley G
Royal Dragoons 5604
P 5408 MMP

Also on the medal Rolls are the dates 10/9/1914 Enlisted and also 11/11/1918

Here is the link to his Medal Card

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1262/ ... turnRecord

I cannot find any entry on CWGC nor on a census. Any assistance with this one.

Don't know if this is any help but between 1870 and 1900 there's only one birth registered in England and Wales....
Births Mar 1886: WESLEY, Gordon Howard - Birmingham 6d 126

He is here in 1891: RG12 Piece 2395 Folio 22 Page 38

Was the H of Howard mistaken for an A in the records?

No matches for births in Scotland.

No entries in Ireland censuses, 1901 and 1911 or in Scotland.

In 1910+1 he is here with his parents...
Address: 109 Albert Road, Handsworth, Staffordshire
Gordon Wesley Son u/m 26 1885 - Birmingham - Jeweller

Sorry not much luck, but also had no luck finding a birth in Lancashire, I wonder if this could possibly be him? despite the middle initial being incorrect.

Births Mar 1886
WESLEY Gordon Howard Birmingham 6d 126

Snap, great minds and all that!

The above gentleman, Gordon Howard Wesley likely served with the RGA, 69754, and died 1967, Birmingham.

Oh well we tried

Alexander Wesley Gordon, 19 Croxteth Grove, Liverpool.
P12014,
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1904/ ... turnRecord



Alexander Wesley Gordon
Birth Place:
Annalong
Residence:
Liverpool
Death Date:
7 Nov 1918
Death Place:
France and Flanders
Enlistment Place:
Liverpool
Rank:
A L Corporal
Corps of Military Police
Mounted Branch
Regimental Number:
P/12014

Died
Formerly 1700, Lancs Hussars Yeo.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casua ... N,%20A%20W

Yay Bert! You beat me to it...

Re birthplace... www.carlingfordandmourne.com/annalong
In the wee North in County Down.

1910+1...
Address: 27 Lancaster Avenue, Toxteth Park, Liverpool.
M Fitzell Bovenizer Head 42 1869 - Rathkeale, Co Limerick - Congregational Minister
Mary Gordon Bovenizer Wife 44 1867 - Annalong, Co Down
Vernon G F Bovenizer Son 2 1909 - Dublin
Winifred May Gordon Niece 17 1894 - Annalong, Co Down - Student
Alexander Wesley Gordon Nephew 16 1895 - Annalong, Co Down - Student
Annie Clapham Servant u/m 20 1891 - Liverpool - Domestic Servant General

Well done lads, back to front!

Trying to find the Bovenizer/Gordon[?] marriage c.1898 [according to the 1910+1] to locate Alexander Wesley Gordon!

1901 Ireland:
Address: 278 Woodstock Road, Ormeau, Down.
Bovenizer M Fitzell 32 Head - bn Limerick - Methodist Minister
Bovenizer M Gordon 34 Wife - bn Down
Markie Rose 20 Servant - Scotland - Domestic Servt

Birth: Michal Fitzell Bovinizer
Birth Date: 14 Apr 1868
Birthplace: Limerick, Ireland
Father's Name: James Bovinizer
Mother's Name: Margaret Fitzell

Their son..
Birth: Vernon Gordon F Bovinizer
Event Date: Oct - Dec 1908
Event Place: Dublin South, Ireland
Registration Quarter and Year: Oct - Dec 1908
Registration District: Dublin South
Volume Number: 2
Page Number: 557

Birth: Alexander Wesley Gordon
Registration year/qtr: 1895 / Mar
Registration district: Kilkeel, Co Down.
Volume: 1
Page: 588
Country: Ireland

Parents?
Haven't found a marriage anywhere yet for Michael Fitzer Bovenizer and a Mary, so as he was a Methodist minister he may have married abroad while missioning in foreign climes such as Ceylon etc.

dickiesam wrote:Birth: Alexander Wesley Gordon
Registration year/qtr: 1895 / Mar
Registration district: Kilkeel, Co Down.
Volume: 1
Page: 588
Country: Ireland

Parents?

Son of Elizabeth Gordon, of The Square, Annalong, Co. Down, and the late John Gordon.

Marriage
John Gordon
Elizabeth Orr, ?
Elizabeth Gordon ?
1892, Kilkeel, sept Qtr, Vol1 page693

Bertieone wrote:

dickiesam wrote:Birth: Alexander Wesley Gordon
Registration year/qtr: 1895 / Mar
Registration district: Kilkeel, Co Down.
Volume: 1
Page: 588
Country: Ireland

Parents?

Son of Elizabeth Gordon, of The Square, Annalong, Co. Down, and the late John Gordon.

TVM Bert. Closure...
Katie will be pleased!

You Guys!!!

I popped into the Archives on the ways to dads and looked up who was recorded at 19, Croxteth Grove and it was:

Rev. Fitzell Bovenizer (Cong)

I can now take him out of Misc database and put him in my Roll of Honour

Here he is under correct name:-

Military Mounted Police
Gordon
P/12014
Alexander Wesley
Lance-Corporal
Liverpool
7th December 1918
Died
Son of Elizabeth Gordon, of The Square, Annalong, Co. Down, and the late John Gordon. Resided 19, Croxteth Grove, Sefton Park.
14th-Nov-1918 Liverpool Echo