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Just to round this off -

I suspect their father was either George [William George] or Joseph [Joseph Benjamin] Baud/Band (or perhaps one of each!), who were brothers living with their mother Sarah Ann in Paradise Row, Silverstone in 1921.

A couple of doors along Paradise Row in 1921 were Fanny's parents and her surviving daughter by her previous marriage - Dorothy [Elsie Dorothy] Kavanagh.
Fanny herself was in Liverpool with her second husband John Neil and children by that time, but I expect she visited Paradise Row from time to time - including after John's death towards the end of 1921!
Joseph Baud was still living in Paradise Row in 1939.

ADDED:
In fact, by 1939 Fanny was living in Douglas Avenue, Silverstone , Towcester, which later became part of Murswell Lane, Silverstone, which is only about half a mile from Paradise Row (off Church Street).

AND FINALLY:
I found a Facebook post from someone reminiscing about how their mother used to cook dinners
"for Joe Baud who lived in a cottage in Paradise Row. Far from Paradise, there was no plaster on the walls or ceiling. . . . . . . . Sometimes I would walk down with his dinner on a plate with bacofoil over the top. It would be lukewarm by the time i arrived. I would feel a little sad that it wasn't hot but pleased that it wasn't cold. Then i would fill his scuttle with coal from what i thought was a barn next door but it didnt look much different to his house. I think he was the only person living in the row." He lived in one room, with a stuffed parrot.

Baud seems to be very much a Towcester name

Thanks for confirming my addition to my previous post, ErikaH. We must have been typing at the same time.

Joseph B married in Northampton RD in 1947, and died in 2008.

Joseph and George both born after John Neil's death, and both with middle name Baud (or Band) - so their father presumably was a Mr Baud or Band.

I know that Joseph isn’t George …… ;-) ;-)

He’s the ‘closed on Ancestry’ record for which you asked

Many thanks for looking.

The Smith marriage isn't hers. That woman's father was Thomas Neil.

The 1943 Halifax death is that of a Mary Ellen Neil.

The Joseph B Neil birth in 1924 isn't George.
George's birth doesn't show up on GRO.

Births Sep 1926 (>99%)
Neil George B Timms Towcester 3b 11

The Sodbury record in 1939 , and the 1974 death, look very likely, as the DOB fits with her birth record.
Obviously her birth cert would be the next step - but she's a distant twig on my tree, so it's not a priority!

Fanny's paternal grandmother was a sister of one of my maternal gr-gr-grandfathers.

Thanks again.


ADDED:
But interesting!
I had discounted Joseph B as a sibling of George, as GRO gives his mmn as Quintro - but now I see that FreeBMD has the mmn as Timms.

Births Dec 1924 (>99%)
Neil Joseph B Timms Towcester 3b 10

NEIL, JOSEPH BAND mmn QUINTRO
GRO Reference: 1924 D Quarter in TOWCESTER Volume 03B Page 10

In that case, the closed record in 1939 with Fanny and George will be Joseph, if the Sodbury record is correct for Mary Elizabeth.

I'm guessing you don't have her birth cert, so.............????????????

First name(s) Mary E
County Gloucestershire
Last name(s) Neil
Country England
Birth date 02 Dec 1917
E. D. letter code ODOB
Birth day 2
Schedule 2
Birth month 12
Schedule sub number 377
Birth year 1917
Archive reference RG101/5119D/010/25
Sex Female
Piece number 5119D
Marital status Single
Item number 10
Occupation No Occupation
Line number 25
Address Stoke Park Colony Stoke Park Colony, Sodbury
Record set 1939 Register
Place Sodbury R.D.
Category Census, land & surveys
Borough / district Sodbury R.D.
Subcategory Census
County Gloucestershire

Only ONE birth registered for Mary E Neil in OND 1917 and JFM 1918

Deaths Dec 1974 (>99%)
NEIL MARY ELIZABETH 2DE1917 BRISTOL 22 1056

Stoke Park was actually a hospital. Info online

Age doesn't quite match, but have you considered ....?

Deaths Mar 1943
NEIL Mary E 26 Halifax 9a 572

Have you discounted the 1935 marriage to Smith in Liverpool?

Joseph B Neil 28 Aug 1924.Bricklayer’s Labourer

I'm posting Ancestry's version of this 1939 record.

Please, will someone have a look at it on FMP, which is often more up to date than Ancestry re 1939.

I'd like to know if the closed record is open on FMP.

By the closed record's position, before the son George, I think it could be Fanny's daughter Mary Elizabeth Neil , born1918 in Liverpool, mmn Timms.

Fanny Neil
in the 1939 England and Wales Register
Name Fanny Neil
Gender Female
Marital Status Widowed
Birth Date 26 Mar 1884
Residence Date 1939
Address 17
Residence Place Towcester, Northamptonshire, England
Occupation Domestic Duties
Line Number 6
Schedule Number 135
Sub Schedule Number 1
Enumeration District Rkle
Borough Towcester
Registration District 160/1.
Inferred Children
George B Neil
Household Members (Name) Gender Birth Year
Fanny Neil Female 1884
This record is officially closed.
George B Neil Male 1926


Otherwise, the last definite sighting of Mary Elizabeth is in 1921, with her parents and siblings in Liverpool.

Can anyone find a marriage or death for her, please?
Her father was John Neil, who died in 1921.

I don't need to know about the rest of the family, thanks.

George B Neil 1926 was obviously not John's son.