Author talk:Gerald Grafton

Sources

Source historical information is sparse. Discrepancy over records

1911 English census

Name: Gerald Grafton
Age in 1911: 51
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Glasgow Lanarkshire
Civil parish: St George Hanover Square
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street Address: 33 Denbigh Place, Westminster S W
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: LYRIC AUTHOR and MELODY COMPOSITOR
Registration district: St George, Hanover Square
Registration District Number: 5
Sub-registration district: Belgrave
ED, institution, or vessel: 23
Piece: 00455

1901 English census

Name: Gerald Grafton
Age: 41
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860
Relation: Lodger
Gender: Male
Where born: France

Civil parish: Newington
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary Newington
County/Island: London
Country: England

Registration district: St Saviour Southwark
Sub-registration district: St Mary, Newington
ED, institution, or vessel: Rowton House
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 1
Piece: 385
Folio: 135
Page Number: 11

No obvious death record in English & Welsh records up to 1920s

No birth record in Scotland 1855-1865 searched "Ger* Grafton".

John McCartin

Suspect that "Gerald Grafton" was a pseudonym and we are talking about

FreeBMD

Deaths Jun 1929
McCartin John 69 London C. 1c 13

Calendar of the Grants ...

Name: John McCartin [Gerald Grafton]
Death Date: 20 Apr 1929
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Probate Date: 13 Jun 1930
Probate Registry: London, England

McCARTIN John or GRAFTON Gerald of 7 Calthorpe-street Grays Inn-road Holborn Middlesex died 26 April 1929 at St Bartholomews Hospital London Administration London 13 June to H.M. Treasury Solicitor. Effects £329 9s. 1d.

Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Name: John Mccarton
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 07 Feb 1858
Birth Place: Clyde,Glasgow,Lanark,Scotland
Father: Bernard Mccarton
Mother: Bridget Mount
FHL Film Number: 6035516

https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch?DetsView=Summary&src=ext&fileid=1801657

last name McCartin
first names John
Burial date 03 May 1929
Location Camden