Charles Frederick HOOKINS (Tree C)

This is one of the few pictures I have of anyone on Tree C. This one is of Charles Frederick HOOKINS known as Charlie. He was born in 1904 at the Globe Inn in Highbridge in Somerset where his father was licensee. Other siblings were also born there in 1908 and 1910. His father's records have become a little elusive because although he appears on different Censuses his birth record has never been located even to the extent of inspecting the birth register for the stated birth place unless his name was changed after birth but none of the births registered seem to be linked to other nown names. I even have a record of his entry into school but the information there does raise suspicions about his father's name. Charlie ran the Ship Inn in Frome when first married but later a farm called Sedgehill and on his death in 1980 was survived by his two sons and the widow of his second marriage but she has also now passed away. I am pleased to have been able to meet both of his sons and his second wife but none of them have so far been able to cast any light on grandfather Frederick John HOOKINS. I hope I can some day because I think there is a link between this Tree and Tree M which centres around Plymouth.