T/Const Anthony William Jandrell

 

1882 Apr 7. Montgomery , not 1885 in London as he gave RIC

1891 census at Kerry, Montgomery

1901 census at Llantrisant and Ystradyfodwg

 

1901 May 23 Enlists in Militia. Royal Monmouthshire Engineers. He is a Miner, living in Pontpridd

1902 Apr 2 Enlisted in R Welsh Fusiliers #7127

He appears to have left RWF by 1906

1906 Oct 24 Married to Ellen Elizabeth Harding on date given to RIC.

 

1911 Census at 62 High St Treochy Glamorgan South Wales

 

WW1 he appears to have been #3131 in RGA

1915 Nov 28 Landed in France

1919 Jan 28. Discharged

 

1920 Oct 26 . ADRIC. RIC no 75028 & ADRIC no 332 (692) ex-soldier

Posted to 4 Gds

1921 May 11. Posted no2 Emp Coy

1921 May 13 to 23 May on Leave

1921 Sep 8 to 22 Sep on Leave

1921 Dec 11. Discharged Steevens Hospital

1939 Register. His wife Ellen E is a Domestic Servant at Rhayader, Radnorshire. He is not there, but may be one of the names blotted out

 

1948 Feb Died Radnorshire

Drivers and Vets

An Ancestry Tree has

 

This is a poser.

We can find his birth reg as Anthony William Q2 1882 and we can find his marriage in 1904 as Anthony William, giving his father as David.

There is also a baptism of Anthony William on 5 Mar 1893 aged 12, son of David & Anne of Upper Weeg, baptised with Ada Eliza Jane Jandrell aged 19.

There are problems with this:

So her baptism data are definitely wrong. And I have good reason to doubt Anthony William's baptism data also.

The possibilities are:

  1. He is the son of a David & someone other than Anne - which fits his marriage information - but in that case why is Ada Eliza associated, and why is Upper Weeg used?
  2. He is the son of Arthur & Anne, like Adaliza Jane - which fits if the errors in his baptism are the same as those of Ada Eliza - but as he is with them in 1891 why is he not shown as their son, instead being grouped with David & Agness, who are definitely the children of David & Sarah
  3. He is the son of David & Sarah - which fits his marriage information - but then why is he not shown as such, as there are two baptisms of other children of David & Sarah on the same date?

Option 1 implies that there are three different sets of Jandrell offspring being baptised that day -

Option 2 assumes errors in two different records - which is improbable but less likely.

Option 3 relies - as do the others - on the registrar having made a complete mess of his day's transcriptions - but I think it is the most likely.

I can't square this circle, though.