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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Shropshire => Topic started by: coralreef on Tuesday 11 October 16 17:02 BST (UK)
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I would like to have any information on Samuel Barnett born 1890 at Child's Recall Shropshire he was in the 1914_1918 war I believe he was a prisoner of that war thanks for any information
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Hi
Can you be more specific about the type of information you are asking for?
Are you looking for his ancestry or his WW1 service or his life after the war - or all 3?
Can you also include any information you already have to avoid duplication and to help us in any search
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1891 has Samuel Barnett 5 months old b Ercall - parents Samuel & Eliza
Please tell us if you already have census info to avoid duplication of efforts
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Still at home 1911 if this is he at Ercall. No Samuel Barnetts in the POW list as far as I can see.
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A Samuel Barnett, born 26 October 1890 was living in Drayton, Shropshire in 1939 with his wife, Nellie. He was an assistant to his wife who was a grocer and sub post mistress. Don't know if this was the right person but a Samuel Barnet married Nellie Dodd in 1920 in Market Drayton. In 1911, Nellie Dodd was an assistant in a post office in Child Ercall.
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1901 find Samuel Barnet (as transcribed on ancestry) with his paternal grandparents Andrew and Ann and another of their grandchildren Rhoda , aged 15
RG13, 2560, 52, 9
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Thank you for your information if anything is known about his war records I would like to confirm if he was a prisoner I have found his census thanks
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The International Committee of the Red Cross database of POWs of the Great War is at http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Search/#/3/2/107/0/British%20and%20Commonwealth/Military/barnett%20samuel (this is the link to the search for Barnett Samuel). No record there, I have tried other spellings without success.
As far as service records are concerned:
I can find no records in the name of Samuel Barnett that can be identified as the Shopshire man (you may know that some 70% of Great War service records were destroyed in a bombing raid in the Second War).
There are some 44 Samuel Barnett medal cards but these records have no personal information so cannot, without a service number and/or regiment, be tied to your man.
Are there any other possible clues in the family, photographs, family stories with dates, memorabilia etc that might help?
maxD
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I have had some information from a member of my husbands family I believe there is a plack in the Child's Ercall Church with his name saying he was a prisoner of war thank you for all your information Coralreef
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Could you perhaps email the church to ask if there is any other information on the plaque, a service number or regiment? Another look at the POW records does throw up two Samuel Barnetts but there is only a service number and regiment recorded, no personal info.
maxD
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http://www.childsercall.co.uk/page_3550716.html
There are email addresses for parish councillors here, one of them may be able to help with the plaque, at worst they may just ignore the email.
Mike
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Hi I have spoken to the team rector the only thing on the plack is Samuels name the rector suggested i try the British legion thanks for your help. Coral reef