Claude William Bradbury born 1910. What happened to him?
 

I had hoped to spare you this one, by inflicting it on the good people of Rootschat but, as you can see, the thread has pretty much been de-railed and run into the ground.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=759796.0

Claude William Bradbury's birth was registered in Leicester in the SQ of 1910. His parents were William James's Bradbury and Elise Dorothee Louise Bradbury (née Juhrs or Jührs).

William James died in 1919 and Louise in 1977, both in Bournemouth.

Claude’s older sister Phyllis Dorothy Bradbury (b1908) died unmarried in Leicester in 1984, and his younger brother Dennis Edwin (b1914) died in Southampton in 1974. His younger sister was born in 1918 (Ancestry thinks she was a brother) and I haven’t unravelled her line yet.

What happened to Claude? Apart from one entry in the Hamburg passenger lists prior to 1935, I cannot find him in the U.K.

Is anyone with a global sub to A~ able to see him anywhere?

I haven't looked at the Rootschat thread yet, but (as a side issue) noticed the 1939 register entry for the younger sister shows her details as:

Joan P Cooke (Bradbury) dob 21 Apr 1918

So she became Mrs Cooke, for when you start on her bit!


EDIT and she has the name Ritchie written by her entry too and a date 30 June 1958, but I haven't worked out how that ties in.

She died as Joan Sabina Ritchie in 1983 and married Mr Cooke in 1942. She became Mrs Ritchie in 1956.

Still waiting for someone else to look for Claude!

Have you considered he might have called himself William?

Right - that explains why I couldn't find Joan. Thanks.

I hadn't considered that Claude might have preferred William. I'll get on to that.

There's a private tree on Ancestry which has Claude with just his year of birth in Leicestershire, but with an additional middle name of James. I wondered if he went by the name James rather than Claude or William! Not that this has helped at all!

On the Rootschat thread someone said he went to Hamburg in 1925. Do I take it there were no other family members with him?

He is the only Bradbury on that passenger list. Also, someone on the Rootschat thread mentioned the occupation "Polizist" but that is the person above Claude on the list. Claude just has a dash for occupation, but he was only 15.

Oh, and his dob on the passenger list is 21 Jun 1910, can't remember whether that was mentioned on the Rootschat thread.

Thanks, I'm sure it wasn't mentioned!!

Needle in a haystack. I'm just not finding anything, anywhere that looks as if it might be him.

*sigh* and the Bradburys were always so reliable.

I never managed to find him either.