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Thank you both xx

if you want the full parish register details for the marriage of William Mellor & margaret Bond you will find them here

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-159376-893800-52?cc=1788853&wc=10932981

Harold's attestation papers indicate he'd be born about January 1896 (he was 20 years and 8 months on 26/09/1916). This birth would fit with that:

Births Mar 1896
Mellor Harold Chorlton 8c 779

Chorlton covered the Levenshulme area.

I'd recommend birth cert. to confirm mother's maiden name.

Thanks Stuart xx

?? MArgaret Bond 1881 in Hulme

1881 census transcription details for: 16, Owen St, Hulme
National Archive Reference:
RG number: RG11 Piece: 3925 Folio: 81 Page: 10

Reg. District: Chorlton Sub District: Hulme
Parish: Hulme Enum. District:
Ecclesiastical District: City/Municipal Borough:
Address: 16, Owen St, Hulme
County: Lancashire

Name Relation Condition Sex Age BirthYear Occupation ,Disability Where Born
BOND, Robert Head Married M 42 1839 Boatman Manchester Lancashire
BOND, Martha Wife Married F 34 1847 Manchester Lancashire
BOND, Margaret Daughter Single F 9 1872 Manchester Lancashire
BOND, John Son Single M 0 1881 Manchester Lancashire


and ? her birth reg
MArgaret Hannah BOND Dec Qtr 1871 Chorlton 8C 709

?? BMD Search result details
Civil Registration event: Marriage

Name: MELLOR, William
Registration District: Help Chorlton
County: Lancashire
Year of Registration: 1890
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Spouse's last name: Not available before 1912
Volume No: Help 8C
Page No: Help 1139
MarriageFinder™: William Mellor married one of the following people


BOND, Margaret Hannah view record
LAW, Carolineview record

YATES, John Albertview recor

Thanks Marie Celeste,
The addresses are in the same area, that my mum is from, so it looks like it is them, as the service record states Levenshulme, thanks for that info Maureen and apologises for not thanking you earlier x

Also note to self could saved loads of trouble if I had looked at Eunices death cert again before now, as it states 13 ashworth street, lower openshaw on it.

Same family in 1911 (Gorton Road sounds familiar from service record)

MELLOR, William Husband Married M 39 1872 Turner (Engravers) Hulme
MELLOR, Maggie H Wife Married 20 years F 39 1872 Housewife Hulme
MELLOR, Harold Son M 15 1896 Errand Boy Levesnshulme
MELLOR, Albert Son M 9 1902 School Levesnshulme
MELLOR, Thomas Son M 3 1908 Levesnshulme

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Registration District: Chorlton
Sub District: Ardwick
Enumeration District: 27
Parish: South Manchester

Address: 35 Gorton Road Openshaw County: Lancashire

** William & Maggie had 5 children at that time, all still alive.

A possible 1901 (apologies, I put in service record mother was Elizabeth - that was his wife, have amended).

MELLOR, William Head Married M 29 1872 Polisher (Velvet Works) Manchr Lancashire
MELLOR, Maggie Wife Married F 29 1872 Manchr Lancashire
MELLOR, Alice Daughter F 9 1892 Salford Lancashire
MELLOR, Willie Son M 7 1894 Levenshulme Lancashire
MELLOR, Harold Son M 5 1896 Levenshulme Lancashire
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Registration District: Chorlton
Civil Parish: Levenshulme

Address: 3, Farm Lane, Levenshulme County: Lancashire

Thanks Stuart for the info, I had seen Alice, but was unsure as if she was connected, as like Irene there had never been any mention of her either, although they did talk often of Eunice, and my mum is named after her.
I had seen the deah of Alice as well, but did not connect it again as it was North Manchester, but could well be that she is also their child x

Marieceleste, that could be him, let me just google the address or area, as the only thing my mum can remember is that their address I presume his family, was near to where they lived in Braford Manchester, before their houses were knocked down x

It says on his service records he was born in Levenshulme.

Maureen

Burial: 13 Jan 1916 St Mary the Virgin, Prestwich, Lancashire, England
Irene Mellor -
Age: 16 months
Abode: 6 Ernest Street, Prestwich
Buried by: William Rowe
Register: Burials 1903 - 1921, Page 260, Entry 2073
Source: Parish Register

Found his WW1 record:

British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920

Name: Harold Mellor
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1896
Age at enlistment: 22
Residence: 13 Ashworth St, Gorton Rd Openshaw Manchester
Document Year: 1918
Regiment Name: Manchester Regt
Number of images: 20

His next of kin is his wife Elizabeth at the address above. It confirms his wife as Elizabeth Hamilton, married 06 July 1914.

When he enlisted he was 5 foot tall, had brown hair and hazel eyes, and had scars on his buttocks (poor lad!) He was a labourer at the time.

I can only see 2 marriages of Male Mellor to female Hamilton between 1900-1940. One in Stoke on Trent would appear to produce 2 children in 1936/1938.
THe other is Harold to Elizabeth and in the Manchester area there are 5 births for Mellor/ mmn Hamilton
Irene - Prestwich 1914, Ivy - Chorlton 1921, Alice - Chorlton 1922, HArold - Chorlton 1924 and Eunice - Manchester South 1932
There is an Alice age 3 dies Manchester North 1925 (was Prestwich RD to 1925)

Thanks hun, I never linked the address, I have got the Hamiltons back to the early 1800's,
The other children of Harold and Elizabeth were all born in Chorlton

If these are the records........Harold was just as much to blame as poor maligned Elizabeth.

It takes two to make a baby


Births Sep 1914 (>99%)
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Mellor Irene Hamilton Prestwich 8d 656

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Deaths Mar 1916 (>99%)
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Mellor Irene 1 Prestwich 8d 396

6 Ernest Street was the Hamilton's address in 1911:

HAMILTON, Thomas L Head Married M 42 1869 Bricklayer Labourer Manchester Lancs
HAMILTON, Betsy Wife Married 23 years F 45 1866 Weaver Lancashire Radcliffe
HAMILTON, Hannah Daughter Single F 18 1893 Cop Winder Lancashire Radcliffe
HAMILTON, Alizabeth Daughter Single F 16 1895 Tenter Lancashire Radcliffe
HAMILTON, Hetty Daughter F 13 1898 Tenter Lancashire Radcliffe
HAMILTON, Betsy Daughter F 9 1902 School Lancashire Radcliffe
HAMILTON, George Son M 2 1909 Lancashire Radcliffe
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Registration District: Prestwich
Sub District: Prestwich
Enumeration District: 2
Parish: Prestwich

Address: 6 Ernest St Prestwich County: Lancashire

I asked my mum but she does not know, the annoying part is that we had a family bible which was started in the later 1700's, but unfortunately it got into the wrong hands and they sold it!

Can't anyone tell you when he died?