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Armed Forces / Re: More badges
« on: Monday 18 September 23 20:38 BST (UK)  »
I never thought of a bomb but your right it does have a look of a hand grenade about it. I have heard about various clubs members of the armed forces belonged to eg the caterpillar club and the goldfish club and wondered if these might be connected to one of those.

My mum's friend's husband was a sapper during the war, maybe the slide belonged to him and not her brother.

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Armed Forces / Re: badges
« on: Monday 18 September 23 20:30 BST (UK)  »
Yes both have Royal Engineers written at the bottom, so these were both sweetheart badges althougth it seems sent to his sister not his sweetheart. How/where were these badges bought from and who made them?

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The Common Room / Re: Help needed tracing ancestor in the 1840s in Soho
« on: Monday 18 September 23 20:07 BST (UK)  »
Yes I have seen that marriage cert thank you, it took place just 4 days after the census which is why I was keen to see what it said on the census.

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Armed Forces / More badges
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 23:51 BST (UK)  »
please see photos

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Armed Forces / badges
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 23:48 BST (UK)  »
please see photos

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Armed Forces / Help needed identifying WWII RAF badges
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 23:42 BST (UK)  »
A friend of my mum's left her a lot of stuff when she died which I am gradually going through. Sadly she had no children to leave it to. Part of it was a few WWII RAF badges which I think belonged to her brother David McLew.
One I think is a cap badge and others are enamel lapel badges. The oddest one is a bar brooch or pin with what looks like a crustacean on it. Can anyone help identify them

I have tried several tmes to add photos of the badges but the system won't let me - it keeps saying there  is already an attachment when there isn't. I will try and add them to another post.

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The Common Room / Re: Help needed tracing ancestor in the 1840s in Soho
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 23:21 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that. Does that mean that those missing streets were never done at the time or have they just been lost or are unreadable?

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The Common Room / Re: Help needed tracing ancestor in the 1840s in Soho
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 23:00 BST (UK)  »
Yes I did know about George Manfred who sadly died of scarlet fever (scarlatina) along with two of his siblings as an infant later the same year. I wondred if there was a connectrion to the msyerious George Liffiter.

I have seen photos of Silver Place and the shop no 5 is still there. After Thomas left is became a hairdressers and amazingly is still a hairdressers now. I just can't find it on the 1841 Census.

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The Common Room / Help needed tracing ancestor in the 1840s in Soho
« on: Sunday 17 September 23 22:27 BST (UK)  »
I was trying to find my ancestor Thomas Grant (b1814) on the 1841 Census. He married in June 1841 and the baptism of his child Thomas Herbert in 1845 reveals that the family lived at 5 Pulteney Court in St James Westminster. Frustratingly I can't seem to locate this address on the 1841 census - I wanted to see who else lives with him before he married and what his profession was. I read on another blog that some parts of the census are missing and I wondered if this was a part that was. However a look on FindMyPast had a list of missing areas but this didn't seem to be one of them.

I found a voting register for 1841 and rate books for 1839-1848 that show that the resident was a George Liffiter which was motre-or-less the time period Thomas was living there. In fact Mr Liffiter seems to leave the residence a couple of years after Thomas Grant moved to another address. This intrigued me - is there a connection between the two men - but I can find no record of the name George Liffiter ever existing anywhere else.

I have hit a brick wall here, can anyone help me find Thomas on the census in 1841 (his job should say furniture deraler or broker) and find out who George Liffiter was?

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