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Manx Genealogy Archive 1

My Elusive Great Grandfather

For months now I have been desperately trying to find my Great Grandfather Grosvenor Ashford Clarke and where he came from.

In 1924 he and Irene Littlejohns had my grandfather Francis William Clarke in Birmingham

The only possible person I think can be my G Grandfather, is a Grosvenor Clarke born in 1893 in King's Norton. This Grosvenor has a twin called Firstbrook. I have ordered his birth cert and their is no Ashford as middle name.

Today I have found this Grosvenor while searching the net, and it looks like he fought in the first world war with his brother Firstbrook, this would of been before my grandfather was born and was about 1918 and address at the time was North View Cottage,Port Erin

I have been unable to find a marriage reference at the family records office in London, would records for Isle of man be there or do I need to look somewhere else. I really have to trace this line, as he is a mystery in my family,

Thanks.