Reginald Jenkins Baker
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8th November 1905
Management & Business Accounts & Electrical
Leading Aircraftman, 1656332
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
13th August 1944
38 years
RANCHI WAR CEMETERY
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Birth registered under the name of Reginald Jenkins Whtitall.
Born at Tynyberth, Llanfihangel, near Dolau, Radnorshire, to mother Eliza Jenkins Whittall, single woman, Domestic Nurse.
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Elisa Jenkins Whittall
Sydney J Hughes
Mary Ann (nee Baker)
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1887 -
25th October 1863 - 1945
16th October 1872 - 1948
Married 1922, Knighton, Radnorshire.
Address:
3 Mill Green , Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales
The inscription on Reginald's headstone reads:-
Rock of Ages
Cleft for me
Let me hide myself in thee
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) have this on Reginald.
Foster-son of Mrs. M. A. Hughes, of Knighton, Radnorshire.
M A Hughes was Mary Ann (nee Baker). She had married Sydney John Hughes in Knighton in 1922. They were both getting on in years when they married. Sydney was born in 1863 (59) and Mary Ann was born 1872 (50)
Going back a bit to the 1911 census we find Mary Ann at home with her mother, and with them is Reginald.
Mill Green Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales
Mary Baker, Head, Widow, 1847, Newtown, Montgomery
Mary Ann Baker, Daughter, Single, 1873, Knighton, Radnorshire
William Edward Baker, Grandson, 1897, Stowe, Shropshire
Reginald Jenkins, Adopted Child, 1906, Dolau, Radnorshire
Dolau falls within the Knighton registration district.
1939 register
3 Mill Green , Knighton, Radnorshire, Wales
Sydney J Hughes, 25 Oct 1863, Married
Mary Ann Hughes, 16 Oct 1872, Married
Reginald J Baker, 8 Nov 1905, Single
Knowing that Reginald was born in Dolau in 1905 I looked for a birth under Baker (just in case he was Mary Ann's illegitimate child) and also under Jenkins but drew a blank.
Using the FreeBMD I did a search on just Reginald born in Knighton in 1905 and got one hit.
Births Dec 1905
Whittall, Reginald Jenkins, Knighton, 11b, 116
Using the GRO main site I got:-
WHITTALL, REGINALD JENKINS
Mother's maiden name: ----- (no name usually means illegitimate)
GRO Reference: 1905 D Quarter in KNIGHTON Volume 11B Page 116
I applied for his birth certificate. His date of birth on the 1939 register matched his date of birth on his birth certificate.
What became of Reginald's mother is not known. She was with her Aunt and Uncle William and Martha Layton in 1911, where Tynyberth is listed as Dolau Road, Llanfihangel, Radnorshire.
Elsie Jenkins Whittall was also illegitimate.