edward wakefield

[sammmo]

Edward Wakefield was born in cheltenham gloucestershire in 1870.. he married Rosetta williams in 1889 but in or around 1910 he left her and there children and nobody knows what happened to him...has anyone got any information about him?

[sammmo]

thank you all for your time and efforts finding this out for me.. its given me alot to think about and i've got the address of lancelot wakefields son so i'm going to see him and ask if he knows any more. thanks onc again..

[sammmo]

I found out that reginald was actually Nellies son and bertram adopted him as his own.And lancelot and his siblings were put in an orphanage and adopted out to various familys..edward wakefield must have been a very cold man, leaving his kids like that.

[Rose Maybud]

Thank you for the update! The lack of record of Edward's death is still bothering me though. You mentioned that Rosetta died of septicaemia - do you have her death certificate? Was Edward the informant?
Another thought crossed the mind - what if Edward died before Rosetta? If so, the death certificate might describe her as 'widow of Edward etc' [in which case he wouldn't have been the informant of course] and the informant might have been Nellie.
I would guess that Edward wasn't into babies because the children he had with him in Port Talbot were all of an age where they could be expected to feed and dress themselves and wipe their own noses and the other end. Rosetta had the babies back in Cheltenham.
The orphanage bit was a little surprising - I would expect either his siblings or Rosetta's siblings to have taken in their nieces and nephews.

[sammmo]

nellie was the imformant.. and because of the nature of her death.. there was an inquest and in that it was mentioned that she was the wife of Edward who had left her 2 yrs ago

[sawakef]

Lancelot Wakefield was my father in law, he always said he did not know what happened to his father. Edward was in Wales in 1912 and present when Raymond died that year. he was living with 4 of the children with his mother in law Emily Gale and her second husband Frank. Edward and Hubert (born1903) seem to have disappered, although Hubert was named as next of kin when Walter enlisted in the army in about 1920 , nothing since. Rosetta also had 4 children with her when she died, none seem to have been taken in by family as Lance was fostered by a family in Shurdington.

Reg Wakefield was the son of Nellie Wakefield and he took the name of Sansome (not sure if Nellie's husband adopted him). Lancelot and Reg were quite close before the war.