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Berkshire / St B GH awarded a silver prize for rowing 22 Feb 1890
« on: Saturday 24 February 24 19:50 GMT (UK)  »
In 1890 my great grandfather won a silver cup for coming second, rowing over 1 1/4 miles - or 1/4 mile, it isn't clear. St B GH was the awarding body. Henry Pilbeam Cox was an Inspector of Weights and Measures for Berkshire and lived in Grenfell Place in Bray or St Marks Road in Maidenhead at the time . It was an impressive achievement as he was 41 at the time. He had previously been 1st in Hackney Wick East London in 2 races in October 1871 when he was 23.
But who can tell me who or what St B GH is?
This has puzzled me for years.

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Not a hawker then! Thank you very much. So what happened to my pauper, I wonder.....

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I believe 55 year old George Frederick Wilson , a hawker, would have died in St Luke's Workhouse Hospital (Old Street/ Shepherdess Walk Islington London) after he was recorded there in the 1921 Census. He had been in and out of it for years but I can find no discharge for him after his admission in April 1918. Would the dead from St Lukes be buried in this section of Chingford Mount ?  Ancestry has a burial for a George Frederick Wilson aged 55 on 26 May 1923.

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thank you. He was a greengrocer as well, it seems. No bikes though. I will see the photo tomorrow and may get a better idea of the date when I see it. 1911 occupant was an annealer of  German silver. Multiple occupancy 1921. Not a cycle dealer in sight...

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My friend has a family photo of a group of people outside a cycle dealers at 119 Aberdeen Street. Can anyone find such a trade being carried out at this address on either side of 1900?

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Carmarthenshire / Re: Donne, Anthony of Carmarthen and London born c 1693
« on: Monday 15 May 23 16:45 BST (UK)  »
One brother in London, Robert, is my 5 x great grandfather and lived at Red Lion Street, Holborn. His father was Anthony born at Kidwelly in 1693. Anthony 1693 was also father to 2 other sons called Anthony, 1st born and died in 1725 and 2nd born in 1726; it was he who returned to Carmarthen and married Margaret Rees. Robert was born in 1733 and I think the 2 brothers conducted a London and Welsh end of a business; Anthony snr was apprenticed to a Carmarthan man named Morgan, in London,a clockmaker, and became a respected clockmaker himself. Both Anthony jnr and Robert were apprenticed to him, as well as other.

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Armed Forces Resources / Re: Thomas Cox Queens Own Royal West Kent (Volunteers)
« on: Wednesday 11 January 23 10:55 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you. I clearly didn't look at the right part of FindMyPast! How significant do you think it was that this one says born in 1886, but my grandfather was born in 1883? I have seen sloppy record keeping but I should think in 1903 there was no crisis going on at the time to account for a mistake such as that would be. Can you tell if this RWK attestation was for regulars or volunteers?
Reluctantly, I think this was probably not my Thomas.

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Armed Forces Resources / Re: Thomas Cox Queens Own Royal West Kent (Volunteers)
« on: Wednesday 11 January 23 08:53 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for that, but my grandfather lived until 1941. But he was generally called Tom. I imagine he resigned from the RWK after having a share of the responsibility for his father's suicide. He was in a reserved occupation in WW1.

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Armed Forces Resources / Thomas Cox Queens Own Royal West Kent (Volunteers)
« on: Tuesday 10 January 23 17:44 GMT (UK)  »
I apologise if I posted about this over 10 years ago. I believe my grandfather Thomas Cox born May 1 1883 joined the Royal West Kent volunteers c 1904/ 5 when his family relocated to Deptford  from Reading (his brother Henry died in the Berks volunteers in Pretoria in 1900.) On 20 June 1906 his father Henry Pilbeam Cox used my grandfather's rifle to kill himself. He found ammunition in my grandfather's pocket as he was forced to break the rules regarding taking ammo away because the man who collected it had gone home early.
I would loved to know more about when my grandfather joined up or indeed, any reference at all to his service with the RWK (he became a lifelong pacifist; it was a very messy suicide!) I don't know where to start first.
Thank you.

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