Information about John Archibald Ray

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  1. FarmerJohn

    FarmerJohn New Member

    Hi, I am looking for information about this SOE operative, apparently stationed in Stockholm från around december 1943 and to the end of the war. He seems to have worked with the parachute people in Denmark but that is about all I know. He wasn't very fond of Fleming Muus it seems. In some later documents its seems he is called John Riddell. He was born in 1910 in London. When I search the Kew website I don't get any hits. Grateful for any help.
     
  2. travers1940

    travers1940 Well-Known Member

    I have no information about his activities in WW2, but maybe this could be him from records on ancestry.

    John Archibald RAY
    born West Norwood London Oct-Dec 1910
    birth registered Oct-Dec 1910 Lambeth Registration District, London
    baptised Feb 12th 1911 St Lukes West Norwood.

    father George Oscar RAY born 1885/6 France (Resident) a swiss national. employed as a cashier at Foreign Bankers
    mother Jessie Ray (nee STRAW) born 1881/2 Sheffield, Yorkshire
    married 1906 Bootle, Liverpool

    family living in 1911 at 1 Royal Circus, West Norwood, London. Siblings: Jessie Ida born 1907/8 & Eric George Oliver born 1908/9. Both born Stamford Hill London.

    This could be him in later life:

    1939 poss at 19 Glan Arbr Park, Chester (dob 19.10.1910) as agricultural engineer, married to Asenath (nee Hill) dob 27.5.1913), poss married 1938 in Wirral Registration District

    ancestry gives suggested link to several vovages by a John Archibald Ray of the right age:

    of 10 Roosevelt Drive, Aintree, Liverpool 9, assistant in the Jonathan Holt & Co Shipping Company sailing for Duala, West Africa in 1936, one of the companies ships.
    of 122 Old Brompton Road, London, to Mombassa May 1946. He is a farmer
    of 130 Queens Gate, London, a farmer, on a ship returning from Mombassa in July 1946.

    a John Ray in 1948 leaves UK for Buenos Aires, to settle in Brazil.
     
  3. harkness

    harkness Well-Known Member

    National School Admission Registers & Log-Books 1870-1914:

    First name(s)
    John A
    Last name Ray
    Birth date 19 Oct 1910
    School name Dovedale County Primary School, Herondale Road
    Admission year 1916
    Discharge year -
    Town
    Allerton
    Parent's first name(s) George O
    Parent's last name Ray
    Book type Admissions & Withdrawals
    County Lancashire


    First name(s)
    John A
    Last name Ray
    Birth date 19 Oct 1910
    School name Longmoor Lane County School
    Admission year 1918
    Discharge year -
    Town
    Liverpool
    Parent's first name(s) George
    Parent's last name Ray
    Book type Admissions & Withdrawals
    County Lancashire


    First name(s)
    John Archibald
    Last name Ray
    Birth date 19 Oct 1910
    School name Liverpool Collegiate School
    Admission year 1922
    Discharge year -
    Town Liverpool
    Parent's first name(s) Geo Oscar
    Parent's last name Ray
    Book type Admissions
    County Lancashire
     
  4. travers1940

    travers1940 Well-Known Member

    I have confirmed that the 10 Roosevelt Drive address is correct, as it is on his sister Ida's nursing records & shipping passenger lists for his father Georges (George).
     

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