Lucy Alice Grail in 1911 (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Thursday, October 03, 2013, 13:04 (4074 days ago) @ slowhands

Hi Eastville,
like you I tried searching for Alice on the 1911 Census with no luck whatsoever, so indeed thanks to MPG for spotting her at last. Rest assured she is on Ancestry, the household is as posted above. If you search "Lucy Alice Woobridge b1874 Aylburton" the 1911 Wales Census image is there, from this link search the 1911 Census and still free-to-access if that helps. If you cannot find it please send me your email and I'll send you the image.
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?new=1&gsfn=Lucy+Alice+Woobridge&gs...

On my pc this link goes straight to the image itself; please can someone confirm whether this link works for them too, or is it just effective on my pc perhaps in cahoots with those cookies and other electrickery, thanks ?
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/2353/rg14_31707_0195_03/2246581?backurl=http%3a%2f%2f...

I see Lucy's husband John worked as a doubler at the tinplate works, he must have been a tough, strong yet still very skillfull man. In case you haven't seen them there are a few prior posts relating to work at the Tinplate Mills. There is an excellent small book about them containing graphic descriptions by former workers which I recommend, particularly as I've just realised that one of them is Jack Wolridge OBE who I guess may be a descendant of Lucy ? #
See this link, it's starts wrt the Lydbrook tinplate works but goes-on to mention their similar works at Lydney, both under the same Richard Thomas ownership by then.
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=38178
And
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=38179
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=42302

# As I posted before I was unable to find any trace of a "Jack Wolridge OBE". I now believe the book's "Jack" was in fact Lucy's son John Charles Wolridge "Junior" born 1903 ?. Perhaps he was called Jack (from his initials J&C ?) to avoid confusion locally with his father also John Charles. It's likely he would have followed his father into the tin mill perhaps apprenticed to his father ?? The book includes a photo of an elderly Jack demonstrating the use of tinplate doubling tongs to the pupils of Whitecross School c1985, all of course long after Lucy's husband John passed away in 1944.
Eitherway I recommend searching out this little book, I bought my secondhand copy inexpensively online.