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Messages - GrahamSimons

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The Common Room / Re: Rev. William John Powell
« on: Monday 25 March 24 18:05 GMT (UK)  »
You could try the Royal Army Chaplains' Museum. They have a Facebook page but I can't quickly find a website.

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The Common Room / Re: Rev. William John Powell
« on: Monday 25 March 24 17:11 GMT (UK)  »
Try Crockfords Clerical Directories - available on Ancestry. This will list any Church of England clergy.

If he was an army chaplain he might be in the Army List of the time.

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Europe / Re: Seigmund Gütman(n) AUSTRIA
« on: Monday 25 March 24 10:19 GMT (UK)  »
www.genteam.eu has a good number of records - possibly worth a look

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Armed Forces / Re: where to find the movements of Royal Navy ships
« on: Thursday 14 March 24 15:16 GMT (UK)  »
If my memory is right, all RN personnel are assigned to a ship, even if the ship is a "stone frigate" such as HMS Ganges or HMS Excellent, or is permanently laid up like HMS Victory . Their pay comes through this "ship" even though they may never be on board.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Alonzo Goodhead - Inheritance information
« on: Saturday 09 March 24 08:20 GMT (UK)  »
I've also been wondering if this isn't quite correct. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is a politician, not a judge, and isn't (such is the way of things) linked to the Court of Chancery, which is where such issues would have been litigated.
Rather differently, I have memoirs from my great-aunt who claimed that her grandfather owned most of Cheapside in the City of London in the late 18th century. Those memoirs, written in the 1970s, are often correct but often not so; the only thing I can find about this City figure is that he was in a debtors' prison! A distant cousin placed lots of adverts in newspapers of the late 19th century selling shares in goldfields in Australia and India; these appear to have been fraudulent and the printed version of the phone calls we now get from scammers claiming to be Microsoft, or 'your broadband company,' or whatever.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Alonzo Goodhead - Inheritance information
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 13:50 GMT (UK)  »
I searched for him as Alonzo; he may well show up as George.....

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Alonzo Goodhead - Inheritance information
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 10:49 GMT (UK)  »
If you look on the probate records website https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/ you should find all wills and adminstrations for England for that date. My brief search revealed nothing - which would suggest that Alonzo didn't leave a Will nor enough money to need an Adminstration. It's possible that his Will was proved much later - that would need a more thorough search. If the estate had a reasonably large value it would have attracted death duties - you could try searching for that - see https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/death-duties-1796-1903/
Might also be worth a search of the London Gazette for official notices - I've had a quick search for Alonzo Goodhead and had no results, but the search engine is notoriously unreliable. See https://www.thegazette.co.uk/
If you can retrieve the newspaper article and quote it for us, we might be able to help as well.

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Armed Forces / Re: where to find the movements of Royal Navy ships
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 10:34 GMT (UK)  »

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