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locating records for Orlando Busato?
« on: Wednesday 17 October 18 14:47 BST (UK) »
This is a long shot but I am trying to find any information on my Grandfather on my Mother's side

He is named Orlando Busato (possibly Orlindo) we think he orginated from Italy but was in an interment camp in Moray where he met my Grandmother Charlotte Greig Geekie born in Inverkeithny in Banff in 1918.  they had 3 children, (twins) born in 1945 in Aberchilder, one died in a fire in 1949.  My mother * Geekie (1946) but there is no named father on her birth certificate but she has the middle name of Busato so its a possibility that he was the father of her as well.  Charlotte also had 2 more children  (1944)and (1939) but under the name of Geekie.

We dont know his date of birth or any records of him being in Scotland at all or if he returned to Italy from the interment camps.  He is named on the death record of George and we are currently purchasing the birth records as we have to pay separately for these.  Can anyone shed any light?  I have looked at interment camps but I have come up blank, I have also tried the british history papers but another blank.  Trying to find anyone who might have a Busato in the family tree that might know of him.

*edited to remove names of possibly living people.  Please do not post names of anyone who is or may still be alive.  Thanks

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Re: locating records for Orlando Busato?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 17 October 18 17:13 BST (UK) »
Slightly sidetracking here, this appears to be Charlotte's death registration

GEEKIE
CHARLOTTE GREIG
AGE 88
SEIVEWRIGHT  (MMN)
DIED 2006
REF: 290/ 53
RD NAME: BUCKIE

So going by this she did not marry.
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: locating records for Orlando Busato?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 17 October 18 18:49 BST (UK) »
Looks like this will be a very tough nut to crack.

I have been searching the ICRC archives but can't see any likely looking person.

https://www.icrc.org/eng/who-we-are/history/150-years/index.html?rdpage=/eng/who-we-are/history/150/timeline/1914-18-pow-agency.htm

You can find a relative by searching their archives.   I didn't try all the nationalities that are available.
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire

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Re: locating records for Orlando Busato?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 17 October 18 21:09 BST (UK) »
ICRC hold many records but I don't believe any from the second world war are put online.

https://www.icrc.org/en/document/request-information-about-individuals-detained-during-second-world-war-or-spanish-civil-war-quota
Unfortunately their tracing service is full up until 2019 but they still accept requests in cases where "you are seeking to determine the identity of a natural parent or grandparent".
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Re: locating records for Orlando Busato?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 18 October 18 09:43 BST (UK) »
I thought it would be a long shot, thank you for all your comments , GirlGuide you are right she never married but as Im still new to all this what does the RD mean?

Thank you for all your help, looks like we might not find him as i have thought of every avenue now and you have more or less backed that up

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Re: locating records for Orlando Busato?
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 18 October 18 09:52 BST (UK) »

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Re: locating records for Orlando Busato?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 18 October 18 10:39 BST (UK) »
Maybe you could try requesting the military records in Italy, in the military district of his Italian birthplace. You are a direct decendant. You might need help from an Italian person?

Busato seems to be a surname from Veneto district in Italy, you could try that area?

There must be a easy and hopefully not to expensive way of cracking this case.

Orlando Busato should be deceaced?

I wonder if he was repatriated from Scotland in 1947 back to Italy?

Ask in this forum? https://www.italiangenealogy.com/forum
Wemyss/Crombie/Laing/Blyth (West Wemyss)
Givens/Normand (Dysart)
Clark/Lister (Dysart)
Wilkinson/Simson (Kettle or Kettlehill)

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Re: locating records for Orlando Busato?
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 18 October 18 11:22 BST (UK) »
I do get Busato surname hits on this Italian site but I wonder if he was born after 1920 which means his birth will not show on here until 2020? (100 year privacy rule?)

http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/?lang=en
Wemyss/Crombie/Laing/Blyth (West Wemyss)
Givens/Normand (Dysart)
Clark/Lister (Dysart)
Wilkinson/Simson (Kettle or Kettlehill)

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Re: locating records for Orlando Busato?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 18 October 18 12:36 BST (UK) »
RD means registration district.
Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire