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Re: Can’t find Great Grandfather
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 21 November 17 22:48 GMT (UK) »
Arthur's birth from the new GRO records.

SWAIN, ARTHUR  ERNEST      mmn THORPE      
GRO Reference: 1896  J Quarter in GRANTHAM  Volume 07A  Page 495

Which is the same as his death which gives a birth date of 1st April 1896.

Parents marriage (not sure where the Grace comes from?)

Marriages Dec 1872   

Swain    John         Grantham    7a   1013   
THORPE    Elizabeth         Grantham    7a   1013    

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Re: Can’t find Great Grandfather
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 21 November 17 22:54 GMT (UK) »
She was born in 1853 as Grace Elizabeth Thorpe,appears in 1911 as Grace Elizabeth Swain and dies in 1926 as Grace Elizabeth Swain.

She seems to spend quite a few years in between having dropped the Grace though  ;D

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Re: Can’t find Great Grandfather
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 22 November 17 08:19 GMT (UK) »


 . . . . . John Swain seems to have married Grace Graham [ 1892 ]


If you start at 1911, how did you get there [ proof ? ]

What is the connection back to that 1911 census entry?
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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 22 November 17 08:25 GMT (UK) »
Marriages Dec 1872 

Swain    John         Grantham    7a   1013    
THORPE    Elizabeth         Grantham    7a   1013    
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Re: Can’t find Great Grandfather
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 22 November 17 08:31 GMT (UK) »

[ by "you" I mean C15wol ]

I believe the info came from 1911  :)
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Re: Can’t find Great Grandfather
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 22 November 17 08:50 GMT (UK) »
Hey Carol, all your info is correct, I know all about my Great Grandfather.

Arthur died a year after my Grandfather (his son).

We have photos of him in ww1 and ww2 uniform but no nothing of his service or action.

Not sure where the Grace Graham part has come from...

John swain my 2x Great Grandfather married Grace Elizabeth Thorpe and had 12 children. I know a lot about these two but my main query is Arthur Ernest Swain’s military days.

Arthur’s birth date is 1st April 1896 Grantham, Lincolnshire

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« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 22 November 17 08:56 GMT (UK) »
 Hi C15wol

Have you posted a picture of him in uniform so that the clever people on here could try and identify his battalion?

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« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 22 November 17 09:03 GMT (UK) »
Hi carol, I’ll do that actually. I’ll see which I have and put them on

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Re: Can’t find Great Grandfather
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 22 November 17 09:31 GMT (UK) »
Hi



12x children? Grace said 13x.

GG vs  G  Grandfather is what I could not align.







"The wise man knows how little he knows, the foolish man does not". My Grandfather & Father.

"You can’t give kindness away.  It keeps coming back". Mark Twain (?).