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Census and Resource Discussion / 1939 register surname changes
« on: Monday 18 December 23 14:16 GMT (UK)  »
With regard to the surname changes on the 1939 register, from where did the new names come?
Was it from official records of marriages (GRO?) or just from, say, Miss Brown telling her doctor her surname was now Green, & the doctor perhaps assuming she had married & so her name was changed on the records?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Cause of Death in Johannesburg
« on: Thursday 21 September 23 19:28 BST (UK)  »
From Family Search, Gertrude HORWITCH died age one year 5 months, 1890 Johannesburg.
 I read the contributing cause as Dyspepsia, but the chief cause has beaten me, Deutite(?)o?i
 Google can't offer any likely suggestions, so any help welcome.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Note in the margin of baptism
« on: Tuesday 29 August 23 21:16 BST (UK)  »
Am I imagining things, or does this note in the margin of a baptism register say "snow storm"?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Cause of death please
« on: Thursday 10 August 23 15:46 BST (UK)  »
Four year old child, help needed with the words above & below Three? days please.

Betty

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Finding a Death in the last 50 years
« on: Tuesday 28 February 23 18:42 GMT (UK)  »
Should I be able to find the death of someone born in 1904?
I know she was alive in 1972, but can't still be alive...can she?

I've looked on www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz with no luck.


Betty


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WW1 In Memoriam / 31st July 1917 Lionel Ernest SCHLOSS, age 23, 2nd Lt. 44th Co. Machine Gun Corps
« on: Sunday 30 July 17 16:57 BST (UK)  »
Cousin Lionel, born 1st November 1893 in Nottingham, son of Alexander & Sarah SCHLOSS

Joined B.E.F 13th October 1916.
Killed in action 31st July 1917 in Belgium, possibly in the Battle of Pilchem, the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres.
No known grave, commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.

Never forgotten, we will remember them.

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The Common Room / Electoral Registers & womens occupation qualification for voting
« on: Tuesday 30 May 17 13:50 BST (UK)  »
Looking for someone in  the Electoral Registers, I found she was qualified to vote not only through residence but because of her occupation. Her husband was noted as qualifying through residence & “Qualification through wife's occupation”

This was mid/late 1930s, did this apply to any working woman at the time, say in an 'everyday' occupation i.e shop assistant, or would it only apply to a woman with a professional occupation?


Betty

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Library and FHS Lookups / Kew lookup please for Divorce records
« on: Sunday 09 April 17 19:53 BST (UK)  »
If anyone is going to Kew & could spare the time to look at a divorce record, I would be very grateful.

Reference:   J 77/1991/2389
Description:    Divorce Court File: 2389. Appellant: Arthur Watkinson. Respondent: Dorothy Watkinson. Co-respondent: Thomas Johnson. Type: Husband's petition for divorce [hd].
Date:    1923

Thank you

Betty

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Trying to find a JOHNSON/HOUGH marrige
« on: Tuesday 04 April 17 15:43 BST (UK)  »
Baby Basil JOHNSON born January 1921, Stainforth, Yorkshire. First known child of this couple.
Parents Thomas JOHNSON (occupation Coal Miner Hewer) & Dorothy formerly HOUGH

I cannot find a JOHNSON/HOUGH marriage on FindMyPast or FreeBMD.
Dorothy was born December 1895 (from 1939 Register) so I've 2 possibles for her, Doncaster or Barnsley, but without the marriage I've no chance of finding a Thomas Johnson without at least a father's name, & he was dead by 1939 so no date of birth.

Any help finding this marriage would be much appreciated, hitting a brick wall so soon after starting another line is frustrating, so I'm hoping 'fresh eyes' will help  :)

Betty

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