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I am looking for help with locating the final resting place of this seaman.

I am pretty sure I know who he was but proving it is another matter. I contacted the Antwerp City Archives but they were unable to help in any way with evidence for this death so I am interested in whether there would have been a post mortem and whether a record for this exists? Would there be a Police record? What was the practice for dealing with these incidents, Burial by the local authority after a period of time as in UK or something else? Would a death certificate have been issued? Are there cemetery records for this period which could be searched by a Belgium researcher and how might one find such a person?

The man's remains were discovered at the bottom of the ship's water tank along with empty whisky bottles !

So may unanswered questions - sorry.

Many thanks for any light you can shed on this matter,

Howdie

Can somebody Identify these medals from his B & W portrait please? Believed to have enlisted in 1938 and drafted 1939. survived campaigns at Dunkirk and Arnhem amongst other scraps.

Many thanks,

Howdie

ps see also my posting today of his discharge testamonial on handwriting deciphering

I am hoping that somebody has access to a Crockford's Clerical Dictionary and can help me with these.

The elder simply David Evans was born 1838/9 but gives various places of birth on the Wales censuses:- Pontypridd, New Bridge, Egwysilan ?? all in Glamorganshire. He married Mary Davies in Brecon in 1867. In 1911 he was vicar at Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa near Llanfyllin. I cannot find him reliably in a census before 1871.

They had two sons both born in Norfolk. The elder was David Richard Evans b Wymondham, Norfolk 1868. married 1900 Julia Jordan. He studied modern history at Oxford and took holy orders and was a vicar at Wanstead Orphan Infant Asylum in 1901. In 1911 he was vicar of St Marys Fownhope.

Any further information on these would be very gratefully received.

Howdie

Here's a problem that has taxed my sleuthing skills for some years.

I have been trying to find out what happenned to this lady:-

She was Mary Macisaac daughter of Angus Macisaac ( a cotter) and Catherine Macintyre who married in Bornish in 1857.

On the 1871 census Mary aged 4 years is living with her widowed mother and older sister Catherine (7) in Buninver.

I have searched high and low for a marriage or death for Mary without success.

Her sister Catherine married Ronald Mackenzie in Bornish in 1893 and it was they who bought up Mary Macisaac's daughter, so the likelihood is that Mary died as the daughter is with her aunt and uncle in 1911.

If anybody can shed light on this mystery I should be very delighted.

With many thanks,

Howdie

Little did I dream when I travelled every day between Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich thirty odd years ago that I was travelling past part of my family origins in Suffolk.

I am looking for information about my gt gt gt gt grandparents John and Hannah Sheldrake of Coddenham and surrounding parishes.

Some of their children were born at nearby Gosbeck. There is a possibility that after this they moved to Coddenham as George/Joshua Sheldrake my ancestor stated on a census that he was born in Coddenham and there are burials for a John Sheldrake 1755-1825 and Hannah Sheldrake 1759 - 1822 in Coddenham.

If anyone can shed further light on these folk I should be extremely grateful.

Howdie