MARGRETT family Ruardean and Cinderford (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, April 04, 2013, 22:20 (4252 days ago)

Today I was searching the net for details of those local men who had fought and tragically died in WW1, when I found this article about the previous thread/ programme http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=39111 which I hope is of interest.

From The Forester newspaper website dated Friday, 26 October 2012.

"Matt Baker....interviewed author Freda Margrett, from Cinderford, whose father fought in the First World War, and whose two brothers were both killed in the Second World War.
Her father, when told that both men were missing and presumed killed, collapsed and died through the shock of receiving the news."

Freda recently published a book having transcribed her father’s war time diary called "Dad’s Diary – A Family at War".

http://www.theforester.co.uk/news.cfm?id=37693

So sad...

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I haven't read the book, but the following records apply.

From the CWGC site I find this Record which fortunately includes a helpfull additional note:

MARGRETT, IVOR WALTER

Rank:Able Seaman
Service No:P/JX 323190
Date of Death:03/08/1944
Age:23
Regiment/Service:Royal Navy
H.M.S. Quorn.
Panel ReferencePanel 82, Column 3.
MemorialPORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:
Son of Walter Stephen Margrett, and of Lydia Margrett, of Ruardean, Gloucestershire.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2371311/MARGRETT,%20IVOR%20WALTER

From this site's PRs, Freda's family (as far as I can find, may be more);

Record_ID: 130048
Entry_Number: 797
Year: 1887
Month: Mar
Day: 13
Parents_Surname: MARGRETTS
Child_Forenames: Walter Stephen
Fathers_Forenames: Walter
Mothers_Forenames: Ellen
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: The Bailey East Dean
Occupation: Labourer
Officiating_Minister: Walter Eaton M.A. Rector
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: AG68/6
Page_Number: 100
Parish_Chapel: Hope Mansell
Soundex: M626

Record_ID: 1008652
Entry_Number: 689
Year: 1945
Month: Feb
Day: 10
Surname: MARGRETT
Forenames: Walter Stephen
Residence: Fern Villa Ruardean Woodside
Age_at_death: 57
Officiating_Minister: T R Deakin
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P109 IN 1/38
Page_No: 87
Parish_Chapel: Drybrook
Soundex: M626

Record_ID: 1005362
Entry_Number: 371
Year: 1972
Month: Nov
Day: 17
Surname: MARGRETT
Forenames: Lydia
Residence: 13 Denehurst Ruardean Woodside Ruardean
Age_at_death: 85
Officiating_Minister: H G E Hiscox
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P109 IN 1/31
Page_No: 47
Parish_Chapel: Drybrook
Soundex: M626

Record_ID: 83413
Entry_Number: 193
Year: 1919
Month: Jun
Day: 2
Grooms_Surname: MARGRETT
Grooms_Forenames: Walter Stephen
Grooms_Age: 32
Groom_Condition: Bachelor
Grooms_Occupation: Railway Porter
Grooms_Residence: The Bailey
Grooms_Fathers_Surname: MARGRETT
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames: Walter
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation: Labourer
Brides_Surname: ABELL
Brides_Forenames: Lydia
Brides_Age: 31
Brides_Condition: Spinster
Brides_Occupation:
Brides_Residence: The Bailey
Brides_Fathers_Surname: ABELL
Brides_Fathers_Forenames: George
Brides_Fathers_Occupation: Deceased
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns:
Signature_or_Mark: Both Sign
Witness_1: Ashbel Abell
Witness_2: Mary Barnett
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: James Lawton Vicar
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P109 IN 1/10
Page_Number: 97
Parish_Chapel: Drybrook
Soundex_Groom: M626
Soundex_Bride: A140

Record_ID: 1054860
Entry_Number: 405
Year: 1920
Month: Apr
Day: 19
Parents_Surname: MARGRETT
Child_Forenames: William George
Fathers_Forenames: Walter Stephen
Mothers_Forenames: Lydia
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Flock cottage Hope Mansel
Occupation: Collier
Officiating_Minister: H Evans Rector
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Born Jan 2nd 1920
Notes:
Register_Reference: CK25/1
Page_Number: 51
Parish_Chapel: Hope Mansel
Soundex: M626

Record_ID: 1054887
Entry_Number: 432
Year: 1921
Month: Jul
Day: 3
Parents_Surname: MARGRETT
Child_Forenames: Ivor Walter
Fathers_Forenames: Walter Stephen
Mothers_Forenames: Lydia
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: New Town East Dean
Occupation: Collier
Officiating_Minister: H Evans Rector
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Born May 18th 1921
Notes:
Register_Reference: CK25/1
Page_Number: 54
Parish_Chapel: Hope Mansel
Soundex: M626

And from FreeBMD:

Surname First name(s) Mother/Spouse/Age District Vol Page
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Births Dec 1926 (>99%)
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Margrett Freda E Abell Ross 6a 665

I cannot find the second brother's death record from WW2 on any free-access website despite trying several surname spelling variations. Ancestry's free search gives a Death Record for a "Willam George Margrett of Glostershire, d1973" who may well be the above brother.
I wonder if he was falsely Reported Missing but then perhaps became a POW ?.

RIP