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in the light of the 1939 register, I think this is Frederick William that was born in Poplar with mothers maiden name Piddington with various siblings, and also registered with mechanical engineers that are on Ancestry. So not helping William Fred, but disproving that it is Lewis/Piddington family. ...

The census for the family Edwin Lewis and Emma Poddington make sense to me, they are engine fitters, and William Frederick also. (Frederick William though) The final 2 Emma is a widow and in 1911 she is in Derby, with 3 children still, guessing they moved as one is a teacher. It does look like the ...

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I have found the will of his spinster sister Emma Matilda Lewis (well the William Frederick Lewis in the census) 12 Sept 1943 So this is either not your man, or he left his family and didn't die. it says....of 13 King Edward Road, died 12 Sept 1943 at 105 Grosvenor Rd, probate to Frederick William L...

The census for the family Edwin Lewis and Emma Poddington make sense to me, they are engine fitters, and William Frederick also. (Frederick William though) The final 2 Emma is a widow and in 1911 she is in Derby, with 3 children still, guessing they moved as one is a teacher. It does look like the m...

I have decided to make my first post and had a look and love the passport, what a find. I assume that all the details on a passport was correct in those days ? so odd that there is no birth. Also do you know that he definitely died? Just wondering if he left the family home? I can see the other tree...