Derek Clifford Chedgzoy

Birth registered Apr-Jun 1939, Birmingham registration district, mother Clifford. GRO ref 6d/673 [FreeBMD, Chedgzoy spelling]. Death registered 1996, Birmingham registration district, date of birth 15 Mar 1939. GRO ref 611D/175 [FreeBMD, Chedgzoy spelling]. OCCUPATION (family testimony, recorded 19 Jun 2026): Derek was a railway engine driver (train driver). Youngest son of Harry #6 and Edith Annie Clifford, and younger brother of Chris father Ronald #2. This corrects an earlier note that had mis-attributed the train-driver trade to his brother Dennis #9 (the names Dennis and Derek are easily confused). {BMD + RESIDENCE, 19 Jun 2026} Married PATRICIA H BLACKHAM, known in the family as Pat, registered Jul 1959, Birmingham [England & Wales Civil Reg. Marriage Index]. (Family knowledge confirms Pat was Derek's wife.) Birth 15 Mar 1939 Birmingham (death index + 1939 Register agree). DEATH corrected: the Civil Reg. Death Index gives Feb 1996 Birmingham (DB previously had 1995); a Birmingham Cemetery and Crematoria record and a 1996 obituary index entry also exist. RESIDENCE: Derek appears repeatedly in the Birmingham Electoral Registers 1833-1972 (collection 62612), confirming long-term Birmingham residence; the street addresses (which would show his Henshaw Road, Small Heath home across the road from his mother Edith) are behind Ancestry premium on the current tier. The free route to the actual addresses is the Library of Birmingham (original electoral registers + Kelly's street directories).