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Edward William Treadaway Hoare jr was born September 3rd 1885, at 83 Avenell(?) Road, Islington, Highbury, the elder of the two sons of EWTH and his first wife, Alice Jane Hoare née Day.
The couple's second son was Edmund Joseph Downer Hoare, born April 5th 1889, at 83 Parkhurst Road, St Mary, Islington.

Alice and EWTH separated in 1895.  They were shown living together with their two sons in the 1891 census, at 83 Parkhurst Road, St Mary, Islington.  Then on EWTH's father's 1897 death certificate, EWTH stated his residence to be 31 Aldersgate, the tavern owned by his father.   The 1901 census lists both Alice and EWTH, but shows them living separately, he alone (with a housekeeper) in Musbury House in Devon, she in a boarding house in Aldershot.  Their two sons are not listed as being with either of them, nor can the boys be found elsewhere in that census.  Perhaps they were out of the country at the time (possibly in France where EWTH was said to have visited frequently).


The only other information we've been able to find on the older brother, EWTH jr, is the registration of his marriage to Dorothy Dora Tisdall, 20, at the Register Office in Edmonton, Middlesex, on 26 Feb 1910.  He lists his occupation on the marriage certificate as Architect and Surveyor.  The bride's father, Joseph Tisdall, is shown as being an Electrotyper.  The address given for both is 60 Stanmore Rd, Tottenham.  Witnesses were Elizabeth Potter and Rosina Ada Brown.  

The couple had at least one child, Basil, born April 1914, Belham, but who sadly died a month later on May 28th.  The address given on the death certificate was at 161 Bedford Hill, father's occupation Draughtsman and Architect.

There's a listing in the London 1914 Directory, under Taverns, for "Ship and Lion, Edward Hoare, 65 Ropemakers’ fields, Limehouse E."  There's no evidence one way or another that the pub's proprietor was EWTH jr, or his father, or another Edward Hoare entirely, but the name, location, and the family's traditional occupation as licensed victuallers are suggestive.



The only other information we've been able to find on the younger brother, Edmund, is a record of two medals he was awarded for service in WWI.  
The file in the National Archives     (   http://www.documentsonline.nationalarchives.gov.uk/    )   reads as follows:

Corps:                                                                      Regiment No             Rank

Honourable Artillery Company Infantry               5415                    Private
Royal Flying Corps                                                                    Second Lieutenant
Border Regiment                                                                        Second Lieutenant

Date:

1914-1920

Medals Awarded:

Victory; 
British

Theater of War Served In:

France;   entered therein:  October 1916

Record: 

Roll TP/107B;  Page 38
Catalogue reference WO 372/9links to the Catalogue

The Medals Archives site also lists several Edward Hoares, even an Edward W and an Edward William Hoare, but there seems to be no way of knowing if they're ours, absent other data such as age and/or location of birth or residence.