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Armed Forces / Joined RAF (band?) in 1925 - What Age?

« on: Saturday 19 January 19 16:14 GMT (UK) »

No long dialogue, simple questions.

If you were a little boy, wanting to be a musician and joining the RAF in 1925 to be in their band what is the youngest age you could be? What would be the most likely age you could be? 8, 10, 12, 14, 16?

I won't go into the detail/background

Nobody reads long posts do they

World War Two / Help WW2 Uniform, Misc Bloke 4, Possibly Cambridgeshire based, Army RASC

« on: Monday 16 July 18 10:02 BST (UK) »

I have 2-3 photos of "unknown blokes" that were in my mother's pile of photographs.

Can anybody identify this uniform? The letters on the shoulder start with R.A..... so possibly RAF? The image on the arm shows some rampant animal....

UPDATE 1: Now been informed it is Army, RASC.

UPDATE 2: suggested one of the medal ribbons is for: 8th Army, North Africa

UPDATE 3: No 1939-1945 badge present, so could be pre-end of war.

As a starting guess, this is person is most likely to have been based in or around Chesterton, Cambridgeshire. Most likely a local lad/British, but could be from American forces as they were based up the road.
I'd like to think it's mum's "family/related photos", rather than "stranger/Yank that bought me a drink and wrote for awhile"

I think he certainly looks "local to the Chesterton, Cambridge area"

Cambridgeshire / Cambridge Electoral Roll ~1960

« on: Wednesday 11 July 18 11:46 BST (UK) »

I've got a photograph of a lady outside her house in ~1958-1960 and all I know is her surname and address.

Is there any way to lookup electoral rolls for about this time?

It'd be nice to be able to "publish" the photo online, perchance to reach people who have her in their tree, but with just the name "Mrs Edwards" I can't move forward with that!

The address is St Andrews Road, number 3.

The Common Room / Just When You Think You Have a HOT Lead!!

« on: Thursday 28 June 18 13:41 BST (UK) »

... and this will finally solve the "where did she go"?

I had somebody born in the workhouse ... and she and her mother completely disappeared after appearing there in the 1891 Census. So where did they go? VERY common names, no help there.

Mother could've remarried, both could've died, anywhere .... either could be using a variation of their names Elizabeth/Eliza/Lizzie/Bessie/Betty ... and Mary, Mary Ann, Mary A, Maryann, Maryanne, Mary Anne... or even just "MA" if in an institute/hospital or something.

*sighs*

Then the breakthrough ... after ploughing through 900 pages of Workhouse records originals, I discovered the birthdate of the baby... hurrah! Birthdate ... I can toss it into 1939 and see if Get lucky.

988 results for a female on that specific birthdate....

Not sure I fancy that. I'd have to unpick every one, in turn, to see if it was a "possible" .... she could've married 1-3x by then - and I don't even know if she's still alive (she'd be 60).

Maybe one day somebody who is a descendant will publish a tree on ANC and I'll go "Ha! got ya", I just want to know if she had a good life

It's not "urgent/important", not even sure if it's the same person ... but I think it's my GG-gm's husband's last surviving child with his first wife and her baby... so not even blood.

The Common Room / Family Bible of Monk & Taylor Families, Great Warley, Essex - on ebay

« on: Monday 21 May 18 23:01 BST (UK) »

Family Register for Taylor & Monk Families 1820s-80s

St Lukes Hospice, Plymouth, have a listing on ebay for a family bible that contains some birth dates. There are three pages of names for the Monk family and the Taylor family. The book was at some point owned by Miriam Monk who married William Taylor at St Mary's Church, Great Warley, Essex on 9 February 1876.

Here's what's on the three pages:

Some births, two have no date:

John Taylor born June 24th 1827
William Taylor August 2nd 1850
Tom Taylor February 29th 1852
Elizabeth Taylor
John Taylor July 16th 1859
Sarah Taylor April 1st 1861
Henry Taylor January 14th 1864
Ann Taylor June 18th 1866
Emily Taylor January 3rd 1871
Stephen Taylor

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Family Register of William Taylor & Miriam Monk
Married St Mary's Church, Gt Warley, Essex
February 9th 1876

Bessie A Priscilla Dec 17 1876
Willie Alfred Taylor Aug 15 1878
Minnie Louise Taylor April 2 1880
Charles Henry Taylor ... 12 1882
Florence Emily Taylor July 28 1884
Elsie Eliza Taylor July 17 1886
Fred Taylor Oct 23 1889

Deaths
Willie Taylor August 10th 1880
Elsie Taylor June 4 1888

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The third page you can't easily make out the names, but it is a simple list of birth dates for the Taylor family and Monk family, with these years:

Taylor Family
1827, 1850, 1862, 1859, 1861, 1864, 1866, 1871

Monk Family
1815, 1818, 1844, 1847, 1849, 1857, 1854, 1856, 1862

Ebay listing: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Henrys-Bible-c-1820s-Family-Register-for-Taylor-Monk-Families-1820s-80s/392046163483

World War One / 1st Bn Bedfordshire Regt. Where Is This Location?

« on: Sunday 12 November 17 14:34 GMT (UK) »

Hi, I've just downloaded an image of a WW1 soldier who had joined up in 1904, so was immediately re-enlisted at the start of WW1 into the 1st Bn Bedfordshire Regiment (possibly "B" company?)

Looking at his movements it says he was:
Home 1904-1914,
France until 18/11/1914.
But what's it say next for his movements?
The next one means Army Reserve I believe as it's after the war.

Overall, this guy's war was: 1st Bn Beds Regt; Transferred to 2nd Suffolks on 29 Dec 1916; Transferred to Labour Corps, 581.

He lived and was demobbed after the end of the war.

Thank you.

World War One / WW1 Medal Card - Which Medals?

« on: Sunday 02 April 17 21:34 BST (UK) »

This is a cropped image of the medal card of a 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry private who had originally been part of the territorial army and I presume left that, but once WW1 started he signed up and trotted off to the Mons.

He was injured at some point, shipped home, recovered and shipped back in 1915.

I know he was at the Mons for sure - he even wrote a (missing) diary as I know his mother in law arranged a reading of it to local school children when he was waiting for another back operation in 1915 and it was in the newspapers. He was injured in the spine by shrapnel when he was bringing his commander back to the safety of the trench.

So, that's the background for any clue as to what these medals are - it's that handwritten part right before the Star that I need help deciphering.

Thanking you in anticipation.

The Common Room / Why No Birth or Marriage Certificates? Have You Binned Yours?

« on: Saturday 01 October 16 10:03 BST (UK) »

When I cleared out my parents' house (very slowly, item by item), neither had their birth certificate and there was no marriage certificate for them.

Dad wasn't "from England" having come for National Service, then getting a job, then studying at night college for X years, so you'd think he'd have been meticulous in keeping hold of his birth certificate, unlike mum who wasn't overly careful, but would she have needed it to get married (1960)?

I find it a bit odd that they both seem to have been slack over their personal paper trail.

Is this what others find? Have you binned your certificates? "Lost" is a different issue if it's "somewhere, but I don't know where" as that'd be found when your house were emptied.

I've still got mine!

Family Bibles / Jackson Family Bible of Sutton in Ashfield on eBay

« on: Sunday 25 September 16 15:02 BST (UK) »

There's a family bible for sale on eBay, it's got some dates written in it:

1838   Isaac Jackson born June 2
1842   John Jackson born July 27
1845   William Jackson born July 29
1848   George Jackson born April 2
1852    Mary Jackson born Feb 2

Rebecca Jackson the wife of Samuel Jackson who departed this life Nov 29 in the year of our lady 1870 in the 56th year of her age. Interred at Sutton in Ashfield Church Dec 1 1870

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-HOLY-BIBLE-1800S-WITH-FAMILY-RECORDS-/201657588859
Seller psychicblonde

It's the Jackson Family, Nottinghamshire. Sutton in Ashfield.
Covering 1838 to 1870