Francis James death (General)

by pojames , Saturday, July 27, 2013, 15:51 (4139 days ago) @ shepway

Thanks so much for that. It looks as though that should be it. I had turned it up earlier, and decided it was coincidence; my parents didn't move down there until quite a bit later (1942), and then only because of my father's work.

BUT I have just remembered that Francis's other son Leonard, who had taken off for Thailand soon after the 1911 census, as cabinet maker to the Royal Palace, (an adventurous chap), had moved back to England at some point post-1925, and ran a business at Yelland Cottage in N Devon, not far from Barnstaple. (Why he plumped for N Devon I have no idea !) His father presumably joined him there (perhaps both Francis and Mary Ann ? or maybe just his father, if they were indeed living apart ?) until his death in 1930. (Unless Grandfather Francis had moved first and Leonard joined him there ??)

By the time I was born Leonard had moved again, to Basingstoke, where he ran another business as cabinet-maker-cum-antique dealer, so I have no recollection of Yelland Cottage beyond the name. Looking up 'Yelland', it is indeed just along the Bideford Rd from Barnstaple. It begins to add up - and I'm sure that must be the right death. Thanks indeed !