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snoopysue wrote:Hi Adrian
I've heard of these Absent Voters lists, but couldn't find out if the ones for Staffordshire still exist, as this is where most of my lot lived. I heard somewhere that a lot were destroyed after the war (can't remember where I got this info).
The main name I'm looking for is my Great grandfather John Jeavons, born 1877 in West Bromwich. He lived at 6 Trinity Road Row, which seems to have changed names twice, first to Ten House Row, and then to Garden Terrace.
At the time of the first world war he was living at 8 Garden Terrace with his wife Mary Ann Jones. They had six children: John, William Arthur, Alice, Betsy, Alfred and May. May, my grandmother, was born in 1914 - presumably to early for regiment to be mentioned.
Family history says that he served in Mesopotamia possibly in the Royal Engineers. He contracted malaria there, which was an indirrect cause of death in 1928 (the family thourght he had malaria again, but he had pneumonia). I have found a possible medal card, but without more info I've been unable to confirm that it was his.
Sue
Antie Em wrote:You might have had the information on absent voters from Sandwell Archives, I have asked for them there and they don't hold them. I don't know if you might have more luck at Staffordshire Archives. Linell might know
beardie wrote:the jeavons listed in the west brom book
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