Person search MANTLE

[JOHN83]

I am looking for any Family members of the late Lt-Col Frank Mitchell Mantle, of the Leicester Regemant, born 1891 Died 1959 age 67 Leicester, he was in charge at the Shady Lane P.O.W camp 167. Leicestershire England, Lived at Sandhills Cottage, Newtown Linford in 1954 he was Director of Mantle and Boarland Ltd, 21/22 Chatham street Leicester of cars and light commercial vehicles, just off Granby Street, also involved with the with territorials.
Mother Martha Ann Mantle born Dewhirst, Copley Hallifax Yorkshire 1849
Father   Robert Scampton, born Leicester 1846.

[Benguin]

Is there a large inheritance? Because he suddenly rings a bell as a lost great uncle

[JOHN83]

no sorry

[Alf Bentley]

3 hours ago, JOHN83 said:

I am looking for any Family members of the late Lt-Col Frank Mitchell Mantle, of the Leicester Regemant, born 1891 Died 1959 age 67 Leicester, he was in charge at the Shady Lane P.O.W camp 167. Leicestershire England, Lived at Sandhills Cottage, Newtown Linford in 1954 he was Director of Mantle and Boarland Ltd, 21/22 Chatham street Leicester of cars and light commercial vehicles, just off Granby Street, also involved with the with territorials.
Mother Martha Ann Mantle born Dewhirst, Copley Hallifax Yorkshire 1849
Father   Robert Scampton, born Leicester 1846.

 

 

Have you already done a fair bit of searching for his relations?

 

I have an interest in family history research and happened to be on Ancestry.com when you posted your message - so I had a quick look on there to see if I could find anything useful for you.

 

I found that he had 6 brothers/sisters but that probate for his estate was granted to his unmarried sister, suggesting that he might not have had kids himself (other docs seem to support this).

At least a couple of his siblings seemed not to have kids either, though a brother in Coventry had a son.

 

I stopped there as it occurred to me that this might be precisely why you were making a random appeal on here - because you'd already done research and struggled to identify close relations?

If not, let me know and I can have a further delve and pass on any info found....but I sort of suspect you may have already done this yourself?

[The Fox Covert]

Interesting post but a strange place to ask for help.

I haven't done any family history research for several years but a good place to go is Curious Fox (yes, honestly!)

It is one of the friendliest family history sites there is and if someone else is actively researching your family you will probably get an answer eventually.

Ancestry is the biggest but it's money money money all the time and it is only worth it when you are actively researching. I reached the limit of what I could find on Ancestry about my own family years ago and if you are not using it every week it gets a bit expensive.

There is a military records site out there but I can't remember what it is off hand. PM me for a link if you want it. 

Best of luck.

[stripeyfox]

I'd quite like to this family research thing one day when I get round to it.There's so much I don't know about my family even only a generation or two back.

 

But where to start?

 

[Alf Bentley]

4 hours ago, stripeyfox said:

I'd quite like to this family research thing one day when I get round to it.There's so much I don't know about my family even only a generation or two back.

 

But where to start?

 

 

The general advice is to start by speaking to older members of your family - trying to get info about earlier generations (approximate birth/death dates, marriages/children, where they lived, what work they did etc.).

It can be hard to identify ancestors from official documents without this initial info - and it's a resource that may disappear if your older relations die without passing the info on.

Best not to assume that all such information you're given is necessarily accurate - false info sometimes gets passed down, either accidentally (mistaken info repeated as truth) or deliberately if there is a skeleton in the closet.

 

If there's any other family member who's done research previously, they can also be helpful - and most are only too happy to share info.

 

If you can link your family fairly accurately to people who were alive at the time of the 1911 Census, you should then be able to use that to research connections before and after that.

 

Edited 4 August 2018 by Alf Bentley

[JOHN83]

Thanks, for the feedback,

First I should explain that I’m not in any way connected to the Mantles.
As I am researching my own family tree.
I thought the information I have would be of interest to the mantle family.
I have a painting painted by a German internee of Shady lane P.O.W prison camp  167 and presented to Lt Col Mantle, on his demobilisation  June 1946.
For the last ten years, on and off  I have tried many ways to find out more  about this painting but having no initial to work from I was  thwarted, Recently  I had breakthrough from Kelly’s directory.
So I created a tree for him On my Ancestry site  and My Heritage site which brought me more information but as yet has not connect to anyone’s tree at, cannot  find marriage of Frank so no children.
have found his older sibling John Dewhirst married to Rosetta Constance he died 1945.
still working my way through,
strange that Franks mother was born six miles from where I was born.