Hi, I have another mystery to solve, having found that Allan Hart was in fact
William Allan Wright Hart and his son Arthur was in fact William Arthur. Now I
have been given another little twister. The step-father who wouldn't take on
his wife's illegitimate son Allan (aka W.A.W.Hart) was away during WW1. His
second daughter Sybil Isabel (aka Billie) swore that he wasn't her father
because she was a strawberry blond and all the rest of the family were dark
haired. Billie was born 14 Sep 1918 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire and while I've
looked on the Forces War Records site (I paid for one month's worth of look-ups
which are useless) I haven't found him. I found some other Robert Henry
Johnsons but I don't think any of them would be him somehow. Now my neighbour,
Billie's niece, wants me to prove or disprove whether Mum played around during
his absence, resulting in Billie. I reckon the deed would have been done
around Christmas 1917. Can anyone suggest where I can access war records
on-line for WW1 please?
BTW "Mum" here is Hannah Johnson nee Hart, whose fiancé, "the supposed son of
the big house" was killed in a horse riding accident just before they could get
married and thus make Allan legit... I think the story might have got confused
with the fact that after Allan was born in 1905, he was left with Hannah's
mother while she was a live-in servant with the Johnson household and
eventually married one of the Johnson boys, Robert Henry.
Viv
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