Birth: 3 December 1900 Willesden, Middlesex, UK
Father: William Balkwill Luke 1857-1930
Mother: Edith Rosa Bourne 1869-1948
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: July-September 1931 St George Hanover Square, London, UK
Wife: Hilda Constance Wethered 1901-1989
Death: 3 September 1972 University College Hospital, St Pancras, Greater London, UK
Arthur Jeremy Balkwill Luke 1932-a2011
Edith Barbara Wethered Luke 1935-a2011
Birth of Frederick Alan B Luke in FreeBMD in January-March 1901 in Hendon (3a 213) which included Willesden until 1909.
In the 1901 census as Frederick Luke aged 4 months, born in Willesden, Middlesex, and living with his parents (William and Edith), two sisters (Helen and Mary), a visitor (Kate Pilbeam aged 37, born in St Pancras, London, widowed and a trained monthly nurse), and two servants (Emma Carter aged 16, born in Plaistow, Essex and a nurse, and Ellen James aged 22, born in Torrington, Devon and a general servant, both single) at Leinster Lodge, Leinster Road, Willesden, Middlesex.
In the 1911 census as Frederic Alen (sic - on the original) Balkwill Luke aged 10, born in Willesden, Middlesex, and living with his parents (William Balkwill and Edith Rosa), sister (Helen Grace) and a servant (Margaret Langgrith aged 24, born in Germany, single and a domestic housemaid) in nine rooms at 12 Leinster Road, Kilburn N W, Middlesex.
He was an executor of his father's will who died on 28 September 1930 leaving effects of £8280 14s. 11d.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for Frederick Luke aged 27 and a superintendant, departed London on 21 August 1928 on the Morea Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd for Marseilles accompanied by Helen Luke aged 31, address of both Leinster Lodge, Leinster Road NW1.
Entry in Ancestry UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 for Frederick Luke aged 27 and a clerk, departed Yokohama, Japan, via Kobe, Shanghai, Colombo, Suez, and Plymouth, on the Rawalpindi, Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd arriving London 24 August 1928, accompanied by Helen G Luke aged 31, address of both Leinster Lodge, Leinster Road, London, and for Frederick Alan Luke aged 31 and a manager, departed Durban South Africa on the Windsor Castle Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd via Cape Town arriving Southampton on 26 August 1929, accompanied by Helen Grace Luke (sister?) aged 31, address for both 12 Leinster ? ? NW6.
Marriage of Frederick A B Luke and Hilda C Wethered in FreeBMD in July-September 1931 in St. Geo.H. Sq. (1a 1184).
His son and daughter were born in Barnet in 1932 and 1935.
There are 23 entries in Ancestry All British Phone Books, 1880-1984 for F A B Luke address 35 Litchfield Way, NW11 number SPEedwell 7717 in 1931 to 1945, changing to 8 Meadway NW11 win 1952 to 1965, number changing to 01-455-7717 in 1967, address changing to 9 Heathfield, Market Place N2 in 1969 to 1973.
There are two entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 Frederick Alan Balkwill Luke, address 12 Leinster Road, Kilburn, NW6 in 1929 and 1931, other occupants William Bakwill (father?) in 1929, Edith Rosa Luke (mother?) and Helen Grace Luke (sister?) in 1929 and 1931, six for for Frederick Alan Balkwell (sic - on the typed originals) Luke address 35 Litchfield Way in 1932 to 1938, other occupants Hilda Constance (wife?), Maud Tatler and Ethel Florence Butler in 1932, May Montieth Brown in 1936, Kathleen Syvret in 1937 and 1938, eight for Frederick A Luke address 8 Meadway, Hendon NW11 in 1951 to 1965, other occupants Hilda C (wife?), and Arthur J (son?) in 1952 to 1960, and Edith B (daughter?) from 1956 to 1960, and five entries for Frederick A B Luke at the same address from 1962 to 1965, other occupants Hilda C (wife?), Arthur J B (son?) in 1962 to 1964, June D Luke in 1962, and Edith B W (daughter?) in 1964 and 1965.
His mother died on 1 October 1948 and left effects of £6677 7s 5d. to Frederick Alan Balkwill Luke public works contractor and his sister Helen Grace Luke.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Frederick Alan B Luke, born on 3 December 1900, in July-September 1972 in St Pancras (5d 2088).
Paul Hughes has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Frederick Alan B Luke, born in March 1901 in Middlesex, parents William and Edith Luke, and his marriage in July 1931 in St George Hanover Square, Middlesex to Hilda Constance Wethered.
There are two patents in his name: Improvements in and relating to apparatus for softening, heating or rendering more plastic - United Kingdom Patent GB419618 Assignees Gen Asphalte, Frederick Alan Balkwill Luke Road surface heaters. GENERAL ASPHALTE CO., Ltd., Australia House, Strand, and LUKE, F. A. B., 35, Lichfield Way, Hampstead, both in London. June 21, 1933, No. 17614. and Improvements in and relating to coverings for roofs, terraces and like surfaces - United Kingdom Patent GB457388 Assignees Gen Asphalte, Morris Stewart Mitchell, Frederick Alan Balkwill Luke Roofs ; terraces ; tiles. GENERAL ASPHALTE CO., Ltd., MITCHELL, M. S., and LUKE, F. A. B., Romney House, Westminster. May 23, 1935, Nos. 15033 and 22391.
Frederick Alan Balkwill Luke was the grandson of Frederick William Bourne, husband of Adelaide Chalcraft, my fifth cousin three times removed.
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