James Henry Gazdar

1877. James Gazdar born on 13/11/1877 at 8 Abbey Terrace , Marylebone Marylebone Dec 1877 to Jamshetji Gazdar, barrister at law, & Mary Ann White

1881C. James Gazdar, 3, was living Rendisham House Cheshunt Herts . A Rendlesham Hall was like a stately home!

Jamsetji	Gazdar	Head	Married	Male	37	1844	Barrister At Law (In Actual Practice At The Chancery Bar)	India Parsee Bombay
Mary A	Gazdar	Wife	Married	Female	37	1844	-	St Pancras Middlesex, England
Mary	Gazdar	Daughter	Single	Female	5	1876	-	Marylebone, Middlesex, England
James	Gazdar	Son	Single	Male	3	1878	-	Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Gertrude	Gazdar	Daughter	Single	Female	1	1880	-	Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Harriet	Taylor	Servant	Single	Female	31	1850	Nurse (Domestic)	Swaffham, Norfolk, England
Isabel	Taylor	Servant	Single	Female	16	1865	Generl Servt (Domestic)	Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Jane	Kent	Servant	Single	Female	15	1866	Generl Servt (Domestic)	Marylebone, Middlesex, England

1895-6. He may well have been the opening bat for the Parsee cricket team in Bombay- no initials given!

1901C. ?. Seemingly not in England. He must have trained as an engineer by now- aged 23. So, still in Bombay?

1911C Mistranscribed on FMP !! Harry J Gazdar is living with his future in laws, the Peatfields, at 211 Great Cheatham St, West Broughton, Salford.

Thomas	Peatfield	Head	Married	Male	70	1841	Provision	Whitefield Lanc
Martha	Peatfield	Wife	Married	Female	69	1842	Registry Office	Dublin Irleand Resident
Marion	Peatfield	Daughter	Single	Female	39	1872	-	Oldham Lanc
Cecilia	Peatfield	Daughter	Single	Female	28	1883	Drapery Dis	Manchester Lanc
Mary	Peatfield	Daughter	Single	Female	26	1885	-	Manchester Lanc
Harry J	Gazdar	Visitor	Single	Male	33	1878	Engineer Mechanical engineer works	Hampstead London

1912. Henry J Gazdar married Mary I Peatfield Salford Jun 1912 . No marriage record in whole county of Lancashire on Online Parish Clerk site . So likely a Registry Office wedding . This m.c. would surely tell us nothing new, just their addresses, and these likely the same as above

1912. Emilie G J Gazdar born 23/7/1912 Birkenhead - died 2000, aged 88, Horsham Dec . A hospital nurse in 1939 register. Called herself Jeanette . seemingly left considerable money.

1914. John Gazdar born Salford Mar 1914 .In 1938 became engaged, member of Grays Inn, to Catherine Walker of Hyderabad -Times Digital Archives. In 1946 became engaged to the widow Kathleen Archard Jones .Married Kathleen Cooper/Archard-Jones: had son Gerald James Michael Gazdar Hertford Mar 1950, mother given as Cooper.: this birth announced in the Times . He appeard in cases in Court of criminal Appeal .Maybe appointed Appeals Secretary for the East Surrey Hospital in 1939 -FMP Newspapers . Died , aged 53, Islington Mar 1967- Probate register has a gap 1967- 1972!! "Mother's brother John produced two children, a girl ,Susan, sadly damaged at birth who lived to be about 15, and Gerald Gazdar, retired professor of linguistics at Sussex; sadly he and I seem unable to communicate with ease - he is maybe resentful that I have JJ's cabinet, and also I suspect at my rapprochement with my aunt in Surbiton in about 1987.". Gerald does not seem to marry . Was living East Henfield ~2002.

1915.Mary Gazdar born 23/4/1915 Manchester Jun 1915 . No baptism for her in Broughton, or in whole county of Lancashire on Online Parish Clerk site

1921. Henry Gazdar & Martha Peatfield- his mother in law - are living 391 Bury New Road, Prestwich - FMP Electoral roll

1922 . James Gazdar, engineer, was living ?Osprey ? Bank, Church Lane,Prestwich in his father´s 1922 Will ,

He later deserted the family ~1927, "running away with another woman to Ireland", but he is in Macclesfield in 1939

Henry went off with another woman to Ireland when my mother was aged about 12, leaving his family in poverty; he died in Ireland. I never even met him. I think my mother was damaged by this and by him. She could remember visiting JJ in Essex, seeing his Queen Anne country house and little dairy herd - she was seven when he died. I knew little of JJ's wife, not even her name; she was the 'spit' of my mother from a photo I once saw, and was somewhat manic in old age, as was my mother. She retired to a hotel in "Sidmouth". My mother could be quarrelsome and reclusive, and she remained a Manchester housewife, separating herself from the family. We visited Gertrude's widower in Bures ( 12 k NW of Colchester) , Essex, in a wonderful black-and-white cottage with undulating floorboards, when I was about 8; I was so strongly gripped by the house that ultimately I have bought one such myself! - Nigel

1939 Reg. James Gazdar, 1877, retired engineer is living Greenways, Robin Lane, Macclesfield. Is Bertha the lady he ran off with??She maybe living Maple Grove Manchester, father a cotton porter, in 1911C . But who is Alice Fleming??

James	Gazdar	30 Nov 1877	Male	Retired Engineer	Married	131	1
	Bertha M	Gleave	10 Nov 1901	Female	Housekeeper	Single	131	2
	Alice	Fleming (Mc Ellus)	25 Jun 1927	Female	At School	Single	131	3

His son, John, did track him down to a pub in Ireland at one point to check he had no other children- for inheritance. His ex-wife( do not think they divorced) died 1956

1957. James Henry Gazdar, 79, widower, died 21/7/1957, in the Victoria Hospital in Cork of Pneumonia. Did he leave a Will?? - not in England, but difficult to find out seemingly in Ireland