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Thomas Johnston - help to decipher his rank/profession please
« on: Friday 09 January 15 12:38 GMT (UK) »
Thomas JOHNSTON married Matilda Marguerite MURPHY
on May 6th 1889 in Ballydax Church, Co. Kildare

He was a soldier and she a milliner but could someone with more knowledge and better eyesight be able to decipher his rank/profession as given on the marriage certificate please

If anyone has further information on the couple it would also be appreciated
Kearney & Bourke/ Johns & Fox/ Mannion & Finan/ Donohoe & Curley
Byrne [Carthy], Keeffe/ Germaine, Butler/ McDermott, Giblin/ Lally, Dolan
Toole, Doran; Dowling, Grogan/ Reilly, Burke; Warren, Kidd [Lawless]/ Smith, Scally; Mangan, Rodgers/ Fahy, Calday; Staunton, Miller
Further generations:
Brophy Coleman Eathorn(e) Fahy Fitzpatrick Geraghty Haverty Keane Keogh Nowlan Rowe Walder

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Re: Thomas Johnston - help to decipher his rank/profession please
« Reply #1 on: Friday 09 January 15 12:42 GMT (UK) »
Looks to me like

2nd, then a bit I cant make out, then Sergeant going on to the second line ( hyphen at end of first), then ACC.

Not a lot of help, I know!
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Thomas Johnston - help to decipher his rank/profession please
« Reply #2 on: Friday 09 January 15 12:44 GMT (UK) »
2nd C H Sergeant, ACC, perhaps but I don't know if that even means anything.

Mike

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Re: Thomas Johnston - help to decipher his rank/profession please
« Reply #3 on: Friday 09 January 15 12:46 GMT (UK) »
I did wonder if it was C. St., maybe short for Cold Stream as in Cold Stream Guards?
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Thomas Johnston - help to decipher his rank/profession please
« Reply #4 on: Friday 09 January 15 12:49 GMT (UK) »
Or is it 2nd Cpl - Sergeant ACC ?

I wondered about C St too. Can't find anything like that by googling though.

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Re: Thomas Johnston - help to decipher his rank/profession please
« Reply #5 on: Friday 09 January 15 12:53 GMT (UK) »
Can it be 2nd Company Staff Sergeant?

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Re: Thomas Johnston - help to decipher his rank/profession please
« Reply #6 on: Friday 09 January 15 13:20 GMT (UK) »
Thanks all
I am hoping to locate his army records and have been unsuccessful looking for a Thomas Johnston to date that fits the information located

He had a daughter Eveleen/Eveline/Evelyn that was born in Aldershot in 1896
His wife Matilda died in 1900 in England
Eveleen was on the 1901 and 1911 census in Kildare with her maternal uncle
Kearney & Bourke/ Johns & Fox/ Mannion & Finan/ Donohoe & Curley
Byrne [Carthy], Keeffe/ Germaine, Butler/ McDermott, Giblin/ Lally, Dolan
Toole, Doran; Dowling, Grogan/ Reilly, Burke; Warren, Kidd [Lawless]/ Smith, Scally; Mangan, Rodgers/ Fahy, Calday; Staunton, Miller
Further generations:
Brophy Coleman Eathorn(e) Fahy Fitzpatrick Geraghty Haverty Keane Keogh Nowlan Rowe Walder

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Re: Thomas Johnston - help to decipher his rank/profession please
« Reply #7 on: Friday 09 January 15 13:33 GMT (UK) »
What does he give as occupation on Evelyns birth and christening?
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Thomas Johnston - help to decipher his rank/profession please
« Reply #8 on: Friday 09 January 15 13:34 GMT (UK) »
Try the Armed Forces Board, they are great at this stuff.