Arthur Meadows 1881- 1965
Joiner
1881. Arthur Meadows born 2/4/1881- this birthdate from the 1939 Register . Birmingham Jun 1881 to Arthur Meadows & Rosina Perry . FMP record entry gives mother Perry
1881C. Took place on 3/4/1881.Arthur Meadows, 2 days old, - mistranscribed as Mechoere- was living Back of 11, Boro Place, Birmingham
Arthur | Mechoere | Head | Married | Male | 26 | 1855 | Hackney Carriage Driver | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
Rosanna | Mechoere | Wife | Married | Female | 28 | 1853 | Wife Of Hackney Carriage Driver | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
Minnie | Mechoere | Daughter | Single | Female | 1 | 1880 | - | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
Arthur | Mechoere | Son | Single | Male | 0 | 1881 | - | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
1891C..Arthur Meadows , 10, was living Icknield Street, Birmingham
Arthur | Meadows | Head | Married | Male | 36 | 1855 | Hackney Carriage Drive | Birmingham Warwickshire, England |
Rosina | Meadows | Wife | Married | Female | 37 | 1854 | - | Birmingham Warwickshire, England |
Minnie | Meadows | Daughter | - | Female | 11 | 1880 | Scholar | Birmingham Warwickshire, England |
Arthur | Meadows | Son | - | Male | 10 | 1881 | Scholar | Birmingham Warwickshire, England |
1897. His father, Arthur Meadows, 43, dies Birmingham Dec 1897
1901C Arthur Meadows , 19, joiner's appreentice, was living Icknield Street, Birmingham
Rosina | Meadows | Head | Widow | Female | 46 | 1855 | - | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
Minnie | Meadows | Daughter | Single | Female | 21 | 1880 | Dressmaker | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
Arthur | Meadows | Son | Single | Male | 19 | 1882 | Joiner's Apprentice | Birmingham, Warwickshire, England |
1908. Arthur Meadows, 27, joiner, married Alma Lucy Howell in All Saints, Birmingham on 16/8/1908 Birmingham Sep 1908. M.c. confirms his father as Arthur Meadows, coachman, deceased . Her father, Alfred Howell, boot closer
1909. Minnie Meadows was born 27/11/1909 - Birmingham - to Arthur & Alma
1911C. Arthur Meadows, 30, joiner shopfitters, was living 1 Court, 1 Whitmore Street, Birmingham . Alternatively, on the original, Blk 4, Whitmore Street, Hockley, in 4 rooms . Arthur & Alma had been married 2 years, and Minnie was their only child at that time
Arthur | Meadows | Head | Married | Male | 30 | 1881 | Joiner Shopfitters | Warwickshire Birmingham |
Alma Lucy | Meadows | Wife | Married | Female | 29 | 1882 | - | Warwickshire Birmingham |
Minnie | Meadows | Daughter | - | Female | 1 | 1910 | - | Warwickshire Birmingham |
5 more daughters were born: Violet 1912; Dorothy V 1914; Edna 1917; Dora 1920 & Beryl 1925 - all in Birmingham/W.Bromwich
1923-1929 . Alma Meadows on the Electoral register at 3 back 233 Wheeler Street, Birmingham, with her husband, Arthur
1930. Alma Meadows on the Electoral register at 46 Hawkesyard Road, Erdington, with her husband, Arthur,
1931. Alma Lucy Meadows on the Electoral register at 46 Hawkesyard Road, Erdington, with her husband, Arthur, and a daughter?, Lucy
1931-1939. Arthur & Alma separated
1939 Register . Alma L Meeadows , born 20/9/1884( this a year out!) was living 170 Tyburn Road, Birmingham with 3 named daughters and likely another of her 2 youngest daughters
Alma L | Meeadows | 20 Sep 1884 | Female | Unpaid Domestic Duties | Married | 105 | 1 |
Violet | Meeadows | 29 Dec 1911 | Female | Shorthand Typist | Single | 105 | 2 |
Dorothy V | Gysely?Ck (Meadows) | 15 Aug 1914 | Female | Viewer (? For ?) | Single | 105 | 3 |
Edna O | Belcher (Meadows) | 10 Jan 1917 | Female | Shorthand Typist | Single | 105 | 4 |
The record for this person is officially closed |
"In 1939 he was likely to have been living in Handsworth..Birmingham with his sister. Roger can recall visiting him there and Alma not being there. Roger and Brenda hazy on exact date but Brenda did say Vera his daughter was about 9 when they all returned to Birmingham from Hastings as Alma could not cope living away from extended family. I think they were a mismatched pair...Arthur resented having to give up his successful joinery/shop fitting business".
And when and why had they moved to Hastings??- in Birmingham 1911,1923 - 1931 but also all daughters born there 1912-1925
1939 Register . Arthur Meadows, born 2/4/1881, woodworker, jigs and aircraft, married, but living with Alice Springer, widow, b.1886 at 29 Babington Road, Birmingham .
Arthur | Meadows | 02 Apr 1881 | Male | Wood Worker ? Aircraft | Married | 206 | 1 |
Alice | Singer | 08 Mar 1886 | Female | Unpaid Domestic Duties | Widowed | 206 | 2 |
The family knew that Alma and Arthur had separated, then Arthur is thought to have lived with his sister Minnie Meadows, 1879, and died in the 1960s in a residential home
Hilary does not know if Minnie married
There is another Arthur Meadows, born July 1880, in Derby, living in 1939 as a wood worker in Birmingham with a wife, Alice Meadows : he died 1948
1941. Their daughter, Dorothy Vera Meadows married Anthony Gyselynck - a Dutch/Belgian surname, though he was very English apparently. Hilary thinks his father was "European " - Birmingham Jun 1941
Arthur and Alma Motte, taken at Vera Meadows' wedding
1940-1965. Arthur Meadows, first lived with his sister, Minnie; then he went to live with a niece in Arden, Warwickshire; then he moved in with his daughter & son in law, Minnie & William Motte, but proved increasingly diffiicult, so was moved to Henwick Grange
The niece likely a daughter of his sister, Minnie
"I recall being told that he had moved in with Rogers mother and family from Arden. Warwickshire..where he been living with a niece! That info from Rs mother"- Hilary.
1965. Arthur Meadows, 83, died Henwick Grange residential home, Worcester Worcester Mar 1965 . No probate . No burial on FMP . No obituary on FMP Newspapers
Henwick Grange residential home, Worcester