Trying to trace my grandfather born about 1883 - not sure where - illegitimate.
Married Martha Alice Cheetham in Dec. 1902 at St Georges Church Tyldesley Lancashire.
Reported missing 1923 'body' discovered in Rumworth Lodge in September 1923 declared dead. Grandmother Martha then remarried a George Dean in Leigh Registry Office in Jan.1925
Grandfather subsequently discovered in Manchester in 1927 - admitted to Leigh Union Hospital(Workhouse) Guardians trying to get him 'resurrected' in order to have his Army Disability Pension restored.

Hi Marilyn,
My father is also searching for a Herbert Thorpe Callister, born November 19th 1903 in Marown, Isle of Man.

He was the son of John James Callister and Mary Emma Thorpe (b.1876).

Herbert's grandmother lived in Greenfield, Yorkshire.

Herbert went missing in his late teens from Ellesmere Port.

From what you've said, your grandfather was born some 20 years earlier...