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Pte Joseph Pound (of the Worcesters)

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:30 pm
by lancepar
Sorting through my past Aunts papers and found this cutting, I don't know anything about it sadly.
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Might be of interest to someones Family.

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Re: Pte Joseph Pound (of the Worcesters)

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 12:22 pm
by mallosa
This looks like him......but when you go into the actual census, it's an entirely different family and I cant see them anywhere in the High Street :?

1911: Workhouse, High Street, Kinver
William Pound 58 Head Farm Labourer
Ann Pound 59 Wife Bobbington, Staffordshire
Charles Pound 21 Son Single Farm Labourer Kinver, Staffordshire
Thomas Pound 19 Son Single Farm Waggoner Kinver
George Pound 18 Son Single Farm Waggoner Kinver
Joseph Pound 15 Son Game Keeper Kinver
May Pound 15 Daughter Kinver

Re: Pte Joseph Pound (of the Worcesters)

Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:15 pm
by mallosa
Looks like his brother Charles also mentioned (India) with his father William

1921: Bannock Free Cottages, Compton Kinver
Charles Pound 32 Years 3 Months Head Cowman Employer John Day Farmer Employer Code 010 Place of Work Vale Read, Kinner
Ethel Pound 30 Years 6 Months Wife Householder Worcestershire
William Pound 68 Years 5 Months Father Widowed Occupation Labourer Occupation Code 024/6 Employer J T Elwell Farmer Employer Code 010 Place of Work Gray Field Court

Charles Pound
Registration Date Jan 1921[Feb 1921][Mar 1921]
Registration Quarter Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration district Wolverhampton
Inferred County Staffordshire
Spouse Ethel Doyle
Volume Number 6b
Page number 1197