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The Common Room / Help needed with Ancestry subscription
« on: Sunday 10 March 24 20:52 GMT (UK)  »
I have used Ancestry before and I am a member although my subscription has lapsed. I was thinking of joining again and thought that a 12 month sub would be better value than a 6 month one. However on the subcriptions page the maximum shown is 6 months.
Research on line (although strangely not shown the Ancestry site itself) showed that that gift memberships can be bought for 12 months via various on line offers from newspapers eg, The Sun.
But it seems that this has to be bought someone else but if they do and buy it for me does it mean I can continue using my old account or do I have to open a new one?
Any advice would be welcome.

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Armed Forces / More badges
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 23:51 BST (UK)  »
please see photos

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Armed Forces / badges
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 23:48 BST (UK)  »
please see photos

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Armed Forces / Help needed identifying WWII RAF badges
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 23:42 BST (UK)  »
A friend of my mum's left her a lot of stuff when she died which I am gradually going through. Sadly she had no children to leave it to. Part of it was a few WWII RAF badges which I think belonged to her brother David McLew.
One I think is a cap badge and others are enamel lapel badges. The oddest one is a bar brooch or pin with what looks like a crustacean on it. Can anyone help identify them

I have tried several tmes to add photos of the badges but the system won't let me - it keeps saying there  is already an attachment when there isn't. I will try and add them to another post.

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The Common Room / Help needed tracing ancestor in the 1840s in Soho
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 22:27 BST (UK)  »
I was trying to find my ancestor Thomas Grant (b1814) on the 1841 Census. He married in June 1841 and the baptism of his child Thomas Herbert in 1845 reveals that the family lived at 5 Pulteney Court in St James Westminster. Frustratingly I can't seem to locate this address on the 1841 census - I wanted to see who else lives with him before he married and what his profession was. I read on another blog that some parts of the census are missing and I wondered if this was a part that was. However a look on FindMyPast had a list of missing areas but this didn't seem to be one of them.

I found a voting register for 1841 and rate books for 1839-1848 that show that the resident was a George Liffiter which was motre-or-less the time period Thomas was living there. In fact Mr Liffiter seems to leave the residence a couple of years after Thomas Grant moved to another address. This intrigued me - is there a connection between the two men - but I can find no record of the name George Liffiter ever existing anywhere else.

I have hit a brick wall here, can anyone help me find Thomas on the census in 1841 (his job should say furniture deraler or broker) and find out who George Liffiter was?

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The Common Room / Ancestors who married twice without death or divorce
« on: Thursday 15 June 23 15:49 BST (UK)  »
I was looking into the history of my great-grandmother's sister Mary Caroline Higgins (b 1896), she married in 1915 to a Canadian soldier called Robert Alexander Stewart Brown. I expected to find them on the 1921 census in London as a married couple or maybe if she emigrated to find them in Canada after WWI (although I was told that she lived in London in the 1940s-50s so she would have returned at some point). But I found that a second mariage took place in London just three years later in early 1918 when she married a British soldier Joseph William Cochran Gillies. The only difference is her age where she lied on the first certificate saying she was 21 when she was 19.

More research into Robert Brown's millitary papers showed that the Canadian army paid Mary a separtion allowance for almost a year until he was forced to stand down from military service as he was declared medically unfit. I wondered if the separation word meant that the marriage was disolved because they were unable to be togther when he returned to Canada, but it seems that it was just money paid to any wife of a Canadian soldier by the government as soldiers wren't paid that much.

Further research showed that Robert also married again in Canada in 1922. So does this mean that both and Mary married bigamously or is there another explanation? Was the fact that she lied about her age an issue? On the second marriage certificates Mary says she is a spinster and is using her maiden name Higgins and Robert says he is a bachelor.

Also I am unable to find Mary and her second husband Joseph Gillies on the 1921 census which is disappointng.

Any help/advice would be welcome.

Please see scans of all 3 cerfiicates below

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The Common Room / People listed on the 1939 Register twice
« on: Tuesday 21 February 23 20:54 GMT (UK)  »
On the 1939 Register I know a lot of names are missing as people were away on active service, others are of course retracted as they are presumed still living, but I did a search recently and noticed that one of my ancestors, who I had already found, was listed again. They lived in Canterbury. And what's odd is that the whole page seems to have been done twice but with different people, with one version having a lot of names are retracted. I checked the pages either side and these are different, so it seems that parts of the town were resistered twice.

I can't attach he entries due to copyright but the below screen grab shows the search includes the same name twice.

Is this a mistake or was it done for a particular purpose?

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The Common Room / 1921 Census - questions/help needed please
« on: Saturday 03 December 22 20:30 GMT (UK)  »
I was hoping to look up various ancestors on the 1921 Census as part of my family history research but when I had a go and bought a one-off name I was annoyed to see that you can't see who is on the next page. I realise that you would have to pay to see the actual page but to know at least one of the names on the page would be useful as I need to know which familes were living in the same house. If you poay for the FindMypast premium membership does that allow you to instantly see next and previous pages, so you can see neighbours without actually looking them up separately as you can with the 1911 census?

Also I heard that there are a lot of mistranscribed names - eg my great grandfather David was down as Louis when I did a search for him, it is only because he has an uncommon surname that I worked out it was him. Is there any advice anywhere on how to get round this?

Plus does anyone know what the family trees are like on FindMyPast. I read that if you buy the annual premium membership it is very expensive but allows access to extras including family trees.

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My ancestor George Bloomfield was a carpenter by trade all his life but on the last census records he appears on in 1891 (when he was 75) his trade has changed to what looks like Tea Agent. Is this is what it says or could it be something else? And if it is does anyone know exactly what a tea agent was?
Please see clipping from census below.

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