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World War One / Re: What was the age cut off for joining up?
« on: Wednesday 17 October 18 12:27 BST (UK) »Is it census for England or Ireland? Was he born in Ireland?
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Ireland. Yes we presume he was born in Ireland.
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It's an interesting question.
My great-uncle was born in late 1884 and emigrated to Canada at age 20.
He was therefore coming up to 30 when he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Engineers six weeks after the declaration of war. He gave his younger brother's date of birth: late 1886.
Why would he do that? Could it be that promotion to officer was open only to those under 30, or was there some other reason for fibbing?
So is this an older brother of Margaret Ellen Knott?
Edward Knott buried Faizabad at St. Mary's church in 1872 his occupation was son of Pte. 51st Regt. K.O.L Infy
https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/
Yes this was my issue as there are tons of Thomas and David powers in Waterford.
I wish they had had a more unusual first name then it may not be so difficult to trace who is the right one etc etc
That's where addresses come into play!
I’m intrigued by this also so updates would be good.
When I am on my friends ancestry looking at info some of the hits on my own tree have errors of displayed info like yesterday it was showing as an American address when it is Irish. Logged out and went to my tree but couldn’t find where this info was listed as the addresses on the person were ireland as they should be.
I want to invest in a good ‘offline’ tree builder and just use ancestry for looking up documents
This one has happened a lot in my tree - I input the address as xx, xxxx, co xxxx, Ireland, and ancestry shows it in the summaries etc, as U.S.A (mainly Colorado!)
An 1890 Waterford marriage of Richard Carbery to an illiterate Margaret "Nott" nee Hunt, widow, has been posted on the other thread. http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=802006.18