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

mc-meadows-1908

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-alma

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

Henwick Grange residential home, Worcester

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