Research Forum

Who is Mrs Critchard?
published by Brian & Pam Airey on Fri, 07/04/2023 - 16:26

I have just come across an entry in a Welsh paper dated 1950 concerning a Mrs CRITCHARD, of Axmouth Cottage donating funds to an organ in the local church. This is in memory of "her son Gunner Thomas LEWIS who died last year in Singapore"(CRITCHARD is an Axmouth name)

I have found a Thomas Brian Lewis born 1927 (no mother's maiden name given on GRO) in Bridgend District & died in Singapore in 1949 aged 22yrs. However I have not found any Lewis marrying a Critchard except for one in 1939 when Irene CRICHARD married Glandwyr LEWIS. Irene was not born until 1918 so could not be the mother of TB LEWIS

Any thoughts

Comments ..

Submitted by Pat Hase on Fri, 07/04/2023 - 23:50

Although the GRO Index does not give a mother's maiden name FreeBMD does give one for a Thomas B LEWIS whose birth was registered in Bridgend in 1927 - It was GRIFFITHS. This would seem to infer that a male LEWIS married a female GRIFFITHS before 1927.

Submitted by Brian & Pam Airey on Sun, 09/04/2023 - 15:18

Thanks Pat. Mystery solved. Morris Lewis married Annie Griffiths in 1912. Subsequently Annie married Ewart Crichard a widower, in 1947 , he originally from Axmouth. Annie died in 1975