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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Swinton Industrial school Census 1921
« on: Saturday 11 March 23 10:37 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning all,

I wonder if anyone has access to be able to look up the admissions registers for Swinton Industrial school for me please?

My father in law and three brothers were missing from the 1921 census at home with their mother and have trawled the returns to find them with no luck. But a dear friend yesterday looks like she may have found the boys at Swinton Industrial School  _
Eliza* Brown  is listed as female. BUT and a big but is that he was also baptised as Eliza in 1913 when he was was born, (7y 8m)
Richard Brown born  29 January 1912 my FIL (10y 5m)
Albert Brown MAR q 1909  (11 y 8m)
and finally James Brown born in 1916 who was not at the institution

Their father sadly died in 1917 of pneumonia after having been rejected by the army due to epilepsy brought on by a works accident 4 years previously.

Their mother remarried in 1918 to Bertram READ but he is  also not at home in 1921 but visiting someone in Nottingham.   
Alice is at  18 Whyatt Street Bradford Manchester. She is a charwoman at the Grey Mare Hotel and listed as married.

The family story (farfetched by any stretch of the imagination) was that the boys ran away from home and became boy soldiers.  One boy stayed in the USA and never married. That part is true because hiss effects were sent to my FIL when he died in the 1960s.

If anybody has access to the admission records to the school and could look to see if the mother of these boys was listed as either Alice Brown or Alice Read and the address of Whyatt Street Bradford. I would be so grateful
kind regards
Anonemouse

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Galway / Blade Family of Abbeyknockmoy Co. Galway
« on: Wednesday 01 November 17 18:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all.
I have recently been told that my BLADE family ancestors, came to Northwich Cheshire England around 1849 from Abbeyknockmoy Co. Galway. Would be interested in anybody with BLADE ancestors from the area please

kind regards
Anonemouse

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Hi there,
I have been looking at some of the amazing results of photo restorations and I wonder if a photo that I have a copy of my great uncle with some of his trophies would restore in the same way as an original photo

This man was my grandfathers eldest brother
Archibald Samuel Creswell BIRTWISLE
my grandfather was Clifford Ernest BIRTWISLE
They were two of twelve children born to Thomas Robinson BIRTWISLE and his second wife Mary Jane BIRTWISLE a draper of Northwich.

Archi, their eldest, was born
2 June 1876 Northwich Cheshire
and emigrated to Canada to become a Mountie in 1906
after being first a police constable and then in the Scots Guards for four years.
This photo was taken prior to him leaving so would be before 1900, so well over 100 years ago.

Before he left. My great uncle gave some of these trophies away to family members.
Archi was a keen athlete. runner swimmer and boxer and had won prizes for these events
My grandfather was given amongst other things a Royal Bonn Biscuit Barrel, pictured in the photo on the striped clothe and a Vienna wall clock. As I lived with my grandfather for many years. I am fairly sure that the clock was the large one in the photograph.  I have inherited the biscuit barrel and would love to see the photo colourised if possible.

kind regards
Anonemouse

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Armed Forces / Curragh Camp 1861
« on: Monday 25 June 12 15:41 BST (UK)  »
i have found a relation
listed at
Curragh camp in 1861
My great great uncle
Private Joseph Birtwisle 6th Battalion military train Curragh Camp

I do know that Joseph was in her Majestys army at Chatham in 1855 His father listed him as an executor in his will dated 1855.
Joseph was  married to Susannah Margaret Mackay  at Woolwich in 1863 . Her father was Alexander Mackay and had also served in the Army Susannah was born at the Cape of Good Hope c1841
I have not found Joseph
 in England for the 1861 census

Having re-looked at my great great uncles marriage certificate , he married at Woolwich in 1863 and was then based at Woolwich barracks. What I originally thought said military training. the end looked squashed, it definitely says Military Train.
He had been a Groom in civilian life. So it makes sense that he could have been dealing with horses in the army. You don't think about the supply side of things being from horse drawn wagons at that time...

Then looking on the net at Curragh Camp, it seems that regiments were based there on rotation. Also in 1861 when my great great uncle was there, could have coincided with the time when the Prince of Wales later Edward V11 was there too.

I would be extremely grateful for any help. ie any ideas to his original regiment He was born  at Northwich Cheshire
any photos of possible uniform
Anonemouse

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World War Two / REME WW2
« on: Thursday 12 January 12 20:46 GMT (UK)  »
hi
my query is
my father in law was in R.E.M.E in WW2  he was supposed to be a driver
in civillian life he was an assistant electrician at the Midland Hotel Manchester.

Recently after sending for a full birth certificate for my husband, his fathers details are:-
craftsman
7639284
R.E.M.E
upholsterer

all other details are correct

kind regards
Anonemouse
 can anyone tell me what he would have done

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Europe / French marriage records
« on: Saturday 29 August 09 17:50 BST (UK)  »
hi
i am looking for a possible marriage in France of
Francis Gallant and Rose Lines between 1919-1945
I have no idea where as in which department.

Francis may have been in the army

Any help at all much appreciated

anonemouse
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Staffordshire Lookup Requests / tipton look up request 1841 HESSON
« on: Saturday 27 December 08 16:30 GMT (UK)  »
has anybody any knowledge of a family called HESSON in the TIPTON area please.
have worked backwards to 1861 cant read the 1851 but an looking for a William and Mary HESSON in the Tipton area from 1841 onwards
I believe my link was a son of theirs John born 1858/9 but there is another John (H) Hesson born in 1859 this pair I believe to be cousins but cant as yet find any proof other than the felling that the fathers ?William and John were perhaps brothers.....

kind regards
Anonemouse
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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Beckworth Hampstead 1901
« on: Friday 08 August 08 20:10 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for
Henry Scott Birtwisle and family
They were living at Hampstead in 1901
Harry and family were enumerated as Beckworth

The image was faint and difficult to read
but reads
Henry Scott Beckworth b Chehill Northwich
Margaret Wife b Ashford Kent
Susannah M Beckworth mother  b S Africa
Philip Beckworth

Henry Scott Birtwisle married Margaret Elizabeth SWAIN in Dover  June 1/4 1900

I would be extremely grateful for any leads

kind regards
Anonemouse

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / St Michael's House
« on: Friday 08 August 08 13:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I am looking for some informationfor a friend  for a death at St. Michaels house in 1955
of David S Todd aged 75 years
He had been a merchant seaman in WW1
She is looking to find his burial or likely place if he was buried locally.

kind regards
Anonemouse

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