Osman Game
Elizabeth Simmonds search for the Game and Adams family (qv) included a particular quest to try to trace the singularly-named "Osman Game". You'd think, wouldn't you, that such a name would be easy meat for even an average internet search engine?
But dear old Google and Yahoo have really struggled, as has Ancestry and all the other proprietory genealogical programmes.
This is what Elizabeth has found, and the little that I have been able to add:
In 1881, Ezra Game - Silk Weaver - and his family were at 65 Melford Road, Sudbury.
Apart from Mary Ann, the family consisted of Virginia C. E. (4), Mabel H. (3) and Esma D. (1) The first two children had been born in Glemsford, but Esma in Sudbury.
A birth: March 1/4, 1882, Sudbury district - the names are given as "Osmond Otho" Game.
By 1891, the family was back in Glemsford, on Hunts Hill, but had probably moved back sometime before, as son Osman, 9, is shown as born in Glemsford.
In 1901, Osman Game was living in Braintree with his uncle Charles Game and Aunt Ruth. Charles was an Engineer in the Silk Factory, Osman was a "Jacquard ?Maker? Card Cutter" - part of the silk manufacturing process.
Apart from the Census, the only vague reference I have found is in the online registers of marriages.
In the March 1/4 of 1918, an Osman Game married someone called Marie M Pallett-Bricknells (or Bricknelle), in Godstone in Surrey. The name being so "individual", we assume this is our Game.
Elizabeth has been told that he had been a school master, but where and when and is this true –who knows. He was in the Dorset Regiment during WW1, in fact he came home from South America to enlist - what was he doing in South America? He married when he was a 2nd Lt. in the Dorset Regiment.
So: if anyone else can help, we'd be really grateful.
SC
But dear old Google and Yahoo have really struggled, as has Ancestry and all the other proprietory genealogical programmes.
This is what Elizabeth has found, and the little that I have been able to add:
In 1881, Ezra Game - Silk Weaver - and his family were at 65 Melford Road, Sudbury.
Apart from Mary Ann, the family consisted of Virginia C. E. (4), Mabel H. (3) and Esma D. (1) The first two children had been born in Glemsford, but Esma in Sudbury.
A birth: March 1/4, 1882, Sudbury district - the names are given as "Osmond Otho" Game.
By 1891, the family was back in Glemsford, on Hunts Hill, but had probably moved back sometime before, as son Osman, 9, is shown as born in Glemsford.
In 1901, Osman Game was living in Braintree with his uncle Charles Game and Aunt Ruth. Charles was an Engineer in the Silk Factory, Osman was a "Jacquard ?Maker? Card Cutter" - part of the silk manufacturing process.
Apart from the Census, the only vague reference I have found is in the online registers of marriages.
In the March 1/4 of 1918, an Osman Game married someone called Marie M Pallett-Bricknells (or Bricknelle), in Godstone in Surrey. The name being so "individual", we assume this is our Game.
Elizabeth has been told that he had been a school master, but where and when and is this true –who knows. He was in the Dorset Regiment during WW1, in fact he came home from South America to enlist - what was he doing in South America? He married when he was a 2nd Lt. in the Dorset Regiment.
So: if anyone else can help, we'd be really grateful.
SC
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