Harry was born in 1903 in Stow registration district, Suffolk. No maiden name is given for his mother on his birth registration which suggests he was an illegitimate child.[1]
Research Notes
Harry may have been born 20 May 1903 and married May Jackson living in Leeds (1939 register).[2]
married May Jackson daughter of blacksmith Herbert Jackson on 31 October 1925 at Pontefract, Yorkshire. Harry was a private in the York and Lancs Regiment who was living at the barracks in Pontefract
no father's name given on marriage record
appears in the National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914 at Stowmarket, Suffolk in 1906 (via FindMyPast search result only - record not seen)
NOT the Harry Punchard in Brighton on 1911 census.
Sources
↑ England & Wales General Register Office, GRO Online Index - Birth (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content : accessed 23 Oct 2021), database entry for PUNCHARD, HARRY (Mother's maiden surname: - ). GRO Reference: 1903 J Quarter in STOW Volume 04A Page 1000.
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