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Hi George,

I looked for Harry or Henry Keyte on the 1901 census (birth year 1895 +/- 5 yrs) and only your Keyte family came up with a father named Frederick..... so I think Harry/Henry may have adjusted his age to suit going into the Army......... if he was in a Truant School in 1911 then he would have been desperate to get out of there..... probably the easiest way to do this would be to join the Army??

My own G Grandfather was only 14 when he joined to go to WW1, he did lie about his age and got found out.......... they kept him as their Bugle Boy though........ I think things were very tough for him at home and he just wanted to get away and the Army offered him a solution to those problems.

If Eliza Still was 23 when she married Harry then maybe telling her he was only actually 19 may have been too much for her to handle, after all he would have needed his fathers permission to marry at that age and if he was estranged from him then lieing about his age would be the only way forward.

I think my own personal gut feeling is that this is definately his marriage, his fathers name is correct, it's just the occupation that is incorrect, but like I stated earlier he may have been estranged from him and not have known his true occupation??


Dee x