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anyone rember then if so i need info on a bob wragg that was in the group he b abt 1943 leicester think iv found a robert a wragg leicestershire on ancestry but cant find out any more as not member can somone look for me plz info on mother n dad
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Name: Robert A Wragg
Mother's Maiden Surname: Frost
Date of Registration: Jan Feb Mar 1947
Registration district: Chesterfield
Registration county: Leicestershire, Derbyshire
Volume Number: 3a
Page Number: 274 (click to see others on page)
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lots of info on them if u google dallas boys
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The original boy band
They were arguably Britain's first boy band: Four mates who used to sing their way home from the pub who transformed into a 1950s
pop phenomenon.
The legacy of The Dallas Boys makes frightful reading: The Osmonds, Bay City Rollers, Bros, New Kids on the Block, Take That, Westlife, blah-blah-blah, whoever-it-is-today - a rash through the cultural fabric of two generations.
It's a synthetic beast the Dallas Boys are not particularly proud of
spawning.
They like to think they were a little bit different.
Real-life pals Stan Jones, Bob Wragg, Leon Fisk, Joe Smith and London lad Nicky Clarke were the original cute-as-kittens boy band.
They went to school together, played rugby together and sang four-part harmonies, properly, and in tune, without backing tapes
or flash dancers, on live TV.
They were made in Leicester - the original and the best, according to their fans.
You can't blame them for what followed in their wake - but Dallas Boy Stan Jones is not a big fan of their legacy.
"It's all about image and videos today, isn't it?" says the 66-year-old in his elegantly furnished Bushby home.
"It's all so contrived. There's the blonde one, a dark one, a tall one, a short one - it doesn't matter if they can't sing.
"They fix all that in the
studio."
The Dallas Boys were regulars on TV shows Six-Five Special and Oh Boy! and by 1958/59, they were your mum's favourite group, performing live every week on her favourite show.
"It wasn't five lads singing the same note, it was harmonies," he says.
"And we never mimed," he says proudly. "We had to sing live, on camera, in front of a TV audience of millions. My mouth used to get so dry my tongue felt like a piece of leather."
But the lads kept their nerve and the wheels on the pop star gravy train started churning. Chubby rock-around-the-clocker Bill Haley told them: "There's no-one to touch your kind of act in the States."
The ladies loved them. By the end of 1958, more than 5,000 women had joined their fan club.
"There was plenty of female attention," he says. "It would be churlish to say any different. We were on TV, we were fairly well known, we
were five reasonably attractive, heterosexual young men, so, yes, we had our moments."
But the times were a changing for the Dallas Boys.
Four cheeky mop-topped scousers were about to redefine the popular music scene.
The Beatles ushered in a new era of guitars, long hair and raunch.
Overnight, the Dallas Boys looked a little old fashioned.
They plodded on and, ironically, started pulling in better money.
By 1969, Bob Wragg even bought a gold limousine, but the game was over, really.
Stan left in 1974 and became an agent.
Today, he looks after Shane Richie, Lisa Riley and Colleen Nolan.
There's no gold limo on his drive, but the Jag suggests he's doing all right.
Stan rejoined the Dallas Boys in 1988 to play at Cliff Richard's 30-year anniversary bash - in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.
"It was brilliant," says Stan. But there won't be any more reunions. "There's a time and a place for everything, and our time has passed," he said.
Adam Wakelin
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Name: Robert G Wragg
Mother's Maiden Surname: Stevenson
Date of Registration: Jan Feb Mar 1934
Registration district: Leicester
Registration county: Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland
Volume Number: 7a
Page Number: 264 (click to see others on page)
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Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
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Marriages Dec 1921 (>99%)
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Frost William E Wagg Shardlow 7b 1311
Wagg Gertrude Frost Shardlow 7b 1311
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Name: Kenneth A Wragg
Mother's Maiden Surname: Frost
Date of Registration: Jan Feb Mar 1947
Registration district: Chesterfield
Registration county: Leicestershire, Derbyshire
Volume Number: 3a
Page Number: 274 (click to see others on page)
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wow thanks for all the info guys
how can i find william e wragg birth as this could be the link to robert wragg can someone plz see if willaim e wragg was b 1900ish and also if he had brother john henry wragg b 1900 bagworth leicester
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Births Dec 1899 (>99%)
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Wragg John Henry Leicester 7a 214
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1901 England Census
about John H Wragg
Name: John H Wragg
Age: 1
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1900
Relation: Son
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Rebecca
Gender: Male
Where born: Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Civil Parish: Leicester Formerly St Margaret
Ecclesiastical parish: St Margaret
County/Island: Leicestershire
Country: England
Street address:
Occupation:
Condition as to marriage:
Education:
Employment status: View Image
Registration district: Leicester
Sub-registration district: North West Leicester
ED, institution, or vessel: 24
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 146
Household Members: Name Age
John Wragg 32
Rebecca Wragg 30
John H Wragg 1
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thanks tania can you look to see if he had brother wiiliam e wragg plz
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Births Mar 1903 (>99%)
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WRAGG William Richard Leicester 7a 200
no william .e to b found...
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thanks tania
for your help l keep searching to see john h had a brother who had robert
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just had a look at that marriage on the orginal transcript and it says wagg, just realised the first robert i gave u that looks like his twin brother kenneth
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William E Wagg
Name: William E Wagg
Age: 12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1889
Relation: Son
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Martha A
Gender: Male
Where born: Oldham, Lancashire, England
Civil Parish: Oldham
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Street address:
Occupation:
Condition as to marriage:
Education:
Employment status: View Image
Registration district: Oldham
Sub-registration district: Oldham Below Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 15
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 204
Household Members: Name Age
John Wagg 39
Martha A Wagg 36
William E Wagg 12 <<<<< william e wagg
Agnes Wagg 4
Henry Wood 21
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Name: William E Wagg
Year of Registration: 1910
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
District: Oldham
County: Greater Manchester, Lancashire
Volume: 8d
Page: 1187
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all i know is that john henry had sister lilly b 1904 leicester im trying to find if john henry only had sister or did he have a brother
can you look at robert g wragg 1934 mothers maiden name steveson
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Name: Lily May Wragg
Year of Registration: 1903
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Leicester (1837-1974)
County: Leicestershire
Volume: 7a
Page: 212 (click to see others on page)
is this the 1?????????????
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Deaths Dec 1910 (95%)
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Wragg John 42 Leicester 7a 108
on the 1911 census there is rebecca ,john henry ,lily may..
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Marriages Jun 1921 (96%)
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Brookes Clara J Marshall Leicester 7a 612
Foster Frederick Wragg Leicester 7a 612
Marshall George W H Russell Leicester 7a 612
Russell Clara J Marshall Leicester 7a 612
Wragg Rebecca Foster Leicester 7a 612
second marriage????????????????
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