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Topic: query road name in Swindon (Read 634 times)
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toby webb
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Might be worth opening a file under Gloucestershire to get some comment on the size of Swindon Village. It would have to be quite a decent size village in 1940 to have a 60, Groundwell / hill Road.
Toby.
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sandgrounder
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RAF, appeared to be at the Radio School in Yatesbury for just under 3 months.
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toby webb
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Hi Judith,
Tricky one and frustrating too. Depends where you live what you can do without going to great expense. At the National Archive in Kew they have some service records but those I have looked at were for WWI. I don't know about WWII. The best bet , I think, is to follow any lead you have. I imagine there must be a service number and also a Regiment on the service record. Regiments have records too. If you are sure it is Swindon then the Swindon Local History unit may be able to help. Often an economic approach for something important i.e. to avoid travel expenses + B&B is to get a record office to do some limited research.It can be worth while.
Good luck,
Toby
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roofy
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Hi,
there is a Groundwell Road, it is right in the middle of town. If you find Regents circus it runs west to east, towards Drove Rd.
Hope this helps,
Ruth
ps If its easier to find, look up Holy Rood RC Church which is on that road next to the school.
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Seyer [Bristol and London], Porter [Swindon and Manchester], Lawless, Wilson, Wood, Ebsworthy, Willson [not a typo, have different spellings on different sides of the family]. Also Lawler [London and Liverpool}
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LizzieW
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I wonder if the Groundwell Road address was just the road where the premises were that your next of kin signed on as a soldier, or other service personnel, rather than his home address. Just a thought.
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
STANTON - Lincs
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- Bethnal Green
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sandgrounder
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No it wasn't Lizzie, he'd been in the forces and at other places for 5-6 mths by then.
Thanks anyway
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roofy
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Hi, sorry if this gets posted twice, sudden glitch happened. Sandgrounder, I am going home for a visit early december and my friend lives round the corner, so pm me with the details and Ill see what I can find. If there is anything to photograph, Ill do that as well, even if its only the front of a building,
Roofy
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Seyer [Bristol and London], Porter [Swindon and Manchester], Lawless, Wilson, Wood, Ebsworthy, Willson [not a typo, have different spellings on different sides of the family]. Also Lawler [London and Liverpool}
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sandgrounder
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I know there's a Groundwell Road, but the one quoted on the document is Groundhill which as far as I know never existed!
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sandgrounder
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The local reference library couldn't find it, either, so obviously a mistake, hopefully this means the rest of the info given was wrong as well.
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