I am trying to find anything about my grandfather. I have his WWI Draft Registration and his marriage to my grandmother, Gertrude Carlson but would like to know about his parents, who they were and where they were born.
Fredrick Algernon Brigg was born in Yorkshire UK in 1881 and emigrated to US in 1905.
I have a copy of his WW1 draft card but it is illegible. He died in Cook County, Illinois in 1919. Have tried to get hold of a death certifficate but being in the UK makes it very difficult and prohibitively expensive, 34.00$ postage by UPS (conditional) plus 18.00$ for the cert and handling. In addition the authorities require a photo ID (we do not have ID cards in the UK) which I cannot provide.
Does anyone have any info on F.A. Brigg or his brothers Claude Horace and Kenneth Brigg born UK 1883 & 1886 resp. who also emigrated to the US in 1904 or thier father Thomas Hargreaves Brigg, an exhibitor and prize winner at the Chicago Worlds Fair in 1894 and St. Louis Purchasing Exhibition in 1904.
