Tag: Lancashire

  • VRAIN, Gerard Ignatius Paul (1878 – 1924)

    #Cardiff #NewYork #USA #Wales #WWI Gerard was the third of four children born to Bernard Henry VRAIN (1847 – 1896) and Ellen Alicia GAVIN (1849 – 1881).  He seems to drop the Ignatius and just known as Gerard Paul VRAIN later in life.  His father’s early life is fairly unknown [see his record for more…

  • VRAIN, Eugene Aloytius Valentine (1876 – 1952)

    #Cardiff #NewYork #USA #Wales #WWI Eugene1 was the eldest of four children born to Bernard Henry VRAIN (1847 – 1896) and Ellen Alicia GAVIN (1849 – 1881).  He is known as Valentine for most of his life it seems and later on amends surname to be ST VRAIN.  His father’s early life is fairly unknown…

  • CROOK, Joseph Waring (1905 – 1969)

    #USA #Massachusetts #Military #RhodeIsland #WWII Joseph Waring CROOK was the middle of three children born to James1 A CROOK (1877 – 1952), a Cotton Mill Worker, and Maria Alice WARING (1876 – 1956) who worked as a Weaver. Don’t know much about his father James’ background but he seems to have been born 1877 in Massachusetts…

  • CROOK, George Francis (1907 – 1964)

    #USA #Massachusetts #Military #RhodeIsland #WWII George Francis CROOK was the middle of three children born to James1 A CROOK (1877 – 1952), a Cotton Mill Worker, and Maria Alice WARING (1876 – 1956) who worked as a Weaver. Don’t know much about his father James’ background but he seems to have been born 1877 in Massachusetts…

  • Unexpected circle

    #England #Folkestone #Kent #Lancashire #Liverpool #Shifnal #Shropshire #Telford #Yorkshire A comment people will hear me say time and again is that with family history research you never know where investigations will lead and sometimes you will just come up against a brick wall. Sometimes at a later date, perhaps years down the line, one more…