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Birth28 Mar 1902, Cannock district, Staffs
Deathca Nov 1981, S E Hants district
General5th s. In 1939: Colliery hewer.
FatherEdward Lewis Keight (ca1862-1926)
MotherSarah Jones (1861-ca1944)
Notes for John Kerr Keight
His birth index:

Name:                   Mother's Maiden Surname:
KEIGHT, JOHN KERR       JONES  
GRO Reference: 1902  J Quarter in CANNOCK  Volume 06B  Page 563
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No baptism found.
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His school record book, giving his birth date:

First name(s)      John K
Last name          Keight
Birth year         1902
Birth date         28 Mar 1902
Event year         1910
School name        Great Wyrley Council. School (Boys)
Town               Great Wyrley
County             Staffordshire
Country            England
Parent's name(s)   Edward L Keight
Book type          Admissions
Archive            Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Archives
Archive reference  D4339_2_1
Record set         National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914
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It looks like he married Mary Lee in Q2 of 1928 in Cannock dist, Staffs.

Search for children with births surname of Keight with a mother’s maiden name of Lee:

Seven children found from 1930 to 1951:

  John L        3  1930       Cannock     Lee
  Betty         4  1933       Cannock     Lee
  Rosemarie S   1  1936       Cannock     Lee
  Joan          3  1937       Cannock     Lee
  male          4  1938       Cannock     Lee
  Thomad        4  1943       Cannock     Lee
  Malcolm K     1  1951       Portsmouth  Lee

No baptisms found on FindMyPast.
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In 1939 their name was transcribed as Keights which FindMyPast did not include in a search for all spellings of that name, causing delays.  But they were there, Ancestry had indexed them correctly and they were at 544 Matherton Lane, Cannock, Cannock U.D., Staffordshire:

First name(s)  Last name(s)  DOB  Sex  Occupation  Marital status  Schedule  Schedule Sub Number
John K      Keight  28 Mar 1902  M  Colliery Hewer          M  263  1
Mary        Keight  28 Feb 1907  F  Unpaid Domestic Duties  M  263  2
John Lewis  Keight  14 Aug 1930  M  At School               S  263  3
Betty       Keight  30 Sep 1933  F  School                  S  263  4
  (later Hewitt)
The record for this person is officially closed.
The record for this person is officially closed.
Elvis R   Keight  31 May 1922  F  Seeking Employment      S  263  7
    (later Armer)

1939 Ref: RG101/5386H/022/10

Elvis R
was the daughter of John Kerr’s brother Samuel Edward who lived in Monmouthshire.
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Their children are found by a search for Keight births with a mother’s maiden name of
Lee:

                           Birth
Last name  First name(s)  Q  Year     Location

Keight     John L         3  1930       Cannock, Staffordshire
Keight     Betty          4  1933       Cannock, Staffordshire
Keight     Rosemarie S    1  1936       Cannock, Staffordshire
Keight     Joan           3  1937       Cannock, Staffordshire
Keight     Male           4  1938       Cannock, Staffordshire
Keight     Thomas         4  1943       Cannock, Staffordshire

The first two of these are revealed in the 1939 census - because they had died by the time this was released.

The forename for the fifth child may be a tad difficult to find.  There is no update on the register page and the new GRO records have not got to 1938 yet.  Nor has anyone put a Postem on FreeBMD to add his name.  Ancestry had the information that he was later known as Peter but had died four hours after birth; a confirmation is that his death was registered with no forename in Q4 of 1938 in Cannock.
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Ancestry has an entry from a family tree that he died in Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1981.  No confirmation for this yet.

However I later found his death in England, with the same birth date as given in his school records in 1910:

First name(s)  John Kerr
Last name      Keight
Gender         Male
Birth day      28
Birth month    3
Birth year     1902
Death quarter  4
Death year     1981
District       South East Hampshire
County         Hampshire
Volume         20
Page           1681
Country        England
Record set     England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007
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Notes for John Kerr & Mary (Family)
Their marriage index:

First name(s)       John K
Last name           Keight
Marriage quarter    2
Marriage year       1928
MarriageFinder      John K Keight married one of these people
                    Mary Lee
Spouse's last name  Lee
District            Cannock
County              Staffordshire
Country             England
Volume              6B
Page number         1173
Record set          England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005
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Last Modified 25 Jul 2021Created 14 May 2022 by Tim Powys-Lybbe
Re-created by Tim Powys-Lybbe on 14 May 20220