Author Topic: Rowland May - died 28 Apr 1982 Darlington - did he serve in the RAF?  (Read 2291 times)

Offline JustinL

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Re: Rowland May - died 28 Apr 1982 Darlington - did he serve in the RAF?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 05 January 17 13:08 GMT (UK) »
I thought I would just report back that an admin assistant at the Darlington RO has very kindly checked the marriage cert for Rowland and Catherine and confirmed that he was a serving RAF officer at the time.

Now to contact his surviving sons ...

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Re: Rowland May - died 28 Apr 1982 Darlington - did he serve in the RAF?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 05 January 17 14:01 GMT (UK) »
A result......good news!   :)
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Rowland May - died 28 Apr 1982 Darlington - did he serve in the RAF?
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 05 January 17 17:27 GMT (UK) »
I thought I would just report back that an admin assistant at the Darlington RO has very kindly checked the marriage cert for Rowland and Catherine and confirmed that he was a serving RAF officer at the time.

Now to contact his surviving sons ...

Thanks for the update, it's always good to know the outcome  :)

JJ

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Re: Rowland May - died 28 Apr 1982 Darlington - did he serve in the RAF?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 25 January 17 13:44 GMT (UK) »
Death notice for Rowland May found in Northern Echo, I have sent this to JustinL in a PM.