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Huntingdonshire Lookup Requests / Victor John Marsh [Sir]
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 00:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hello.
Having had a longtime nagging void in my history about one direct ancestor satisfied, I'm hoping that another, less important, but still a strong curiosity can be settled.
I'm after information about a second cousin, Victor John Marsh, b. 1921 in Kent, died 2004 in Huntingdon: he was my mother's 1st cousin, and there were periodic references about him and his brother Ronald between Mum and her siblings. I never knew until recently that cousin 'Vic' had been knighted at some time. I have searched as best as I've been able to find out what he was knighted for, and been spectacularly unsuccessful. I'm beginning to think it must have been for something 'Top Secret' [ha, ha]. Seriously, I would appreciate knowing.
Thank you, readers.

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Family History Beginners Board / Homer Yard, Saffron Walden.
« on: Wednesday 22 March 23 09:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hi readers!
I had a gt. uncle who was resident at 8 Homer Yard, according to the 1939 Register. I have tried looking around various sites and maps, but have not had any luck about where Homer Yard was in Saffron Walden, or what was in Homer Yard, such as alms houses or a workhouse or what. He was described as being 'incapacitated', that why I thought of those sorts of places, or even a Doss house. He'd been an agricultural worker and I've considered that he may have had an accident to cause the incapacity.
Has anyone any knowledge about Homer Yard?

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Nottinghamshire Lookup Requests / Crossland in Basford
« on: Friday 28 January 22 07:04 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to confirm statements by my gt.grandfather that his father was Frank Crossland, probably born about 1830-1835, son of Sir John and Lady Alice Crossland, Nottingham, England. My gt.grandfather stated in all the various Census' that he was born in Basford C1857, and that he was the illegitimate child of the son and a sewing maid, and that they were lace manufacturers. His mother was from Kent. I have been unable to find any John or Sir John Crossland and a Lady Alice, with/without the titles. Their son was said to be a Major in the Hussars, and died in the Indian Mutiny, with gt.grandfather being born posthumously to his own father, Major Frank.
I've been looking for years and got nowhere except for a Crossland family who were ordinary working people, the son was a bleacher, and who disappeared from Census records but who seems to have gone into the 6th Dragoons, and died [not been killed] in India. He was the only Crossland listed in either officers' or ranks' lists.
HELP!

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