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Title: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen William Vincent
Post by: Swally on Thursday 27 November 14 21:30 GMT (UK)
Guys, I am compiling a book of those from Newmains / Morningsideand Cambusnethan and am stuck with one of the guys, a William Vincent.  I have no address, no age, no rank or brigade.
There is another Vincent on the memorial,  a Malcolm Vincent could it have been his brother?
He had emigrated to Canada and he also fell.  Any help would be appreciated.
The book is not for profit by the way.

Thanks,

Swally
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: sancti on Thursday 27 November 14 23:08 GMT (UK)
Is there information on him in Joe O'Raw's book?
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Friday 28 November 14 08:50 GMT (UK)
I'm doing this work in conjunction with Joe and only got an additional bit of info this morning.  On the 1881 census he was aged 1 staying with family at Stonecraigs Newmains. He was born in Auchinleck. Thanks

No 14 Stonecraigs Row Double Houses , Cambusnethan , Lanarkshire
Thomas Vincent          42
Annie Vincent             39
Maggie Vincent           14
Helen Vincent             12
Thomas Vincent          11
Annie Vincent             9
Janet Vincent             7
John Vincent              5
James Vincent            5
Malcolm Vincent         3
William Vincent          1

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/351127/VINCENT,%20MALCOLM
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: MonicaL on Friday 28 November 14 18:45 GMT (UK)
So...this would be 1891:

Thos Vincent 53
Annie Vincent 50
Thos Vincent 20
John Vincent 15
Jas Vincent 15
Malcolm Vincent 13
Wm Vincent 11
Christina Vincent 9
Address: 2 McIntyre's Few, Cambusnethan

Monica 
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: MonicaL on Friday 28 November 14 18:49 GMT (UK)
 :-\ Muddying the water...from 1901:

John Vincent 60 engine keeper b. Old Monkland
Isabella Vincent 56 b. Old Monkland
William Vincent 24 saw man b. Bothwell, Lanark
Helen Vincent 22
Andrew Vincent 19
Benjamin Vincent 13

Address: No 6 Lochview Cott, Cambusnethan

Monica
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Saturday 29 November 14 20:47 GMT (UK)
Monica,

Looks like you are right on the button with our man Vincent.
By the time the Great War comes around he would be roughly 34 ish, I imagine he would be married by then??  and possibly have moved away?? I have checked on the Commonwealth War Graves and I can't tie any of them down to being our man William Vincent.
Looks like I'll need to keep looking
Thanks again
Swally
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Saturday 29 November 14 20:50 GMT (UK)
Monica,

I just read it again, there was a Benjamin Vincent from Craigneuk, Wishaw who fell during the Great War.  I wonder if these ones are cousins....or is Helen Vincent, William Vincent's wife.

As with all genealogy....more questions than answers.

Thanks,

Swally
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Sunday 04 January 15 19:53 GMT (UK)
Guys,  I really have hit a wall with William Vincent, I'm not that sure (although he is named on the Newmains War Memorial) that he served.  I can't get him on Scotland's People as a Great War return (death), I have searched but can't find his wife remarrying (I know it didn't happen in all cases), unless of course she remarried under her maiden name again?  looks like she didn't die in Lanarkshire but possibly in 1927 in Glasgow, Wilhimenia Vincent, but the age doesn't add up.
The two kids, Thomas aged 4 on the 1911 Census possibly got married in Shotts 1931, Roseanna aged 2 on the 1911 Census I can't find her death in Scotland.  Although I have a match for Thomas it is possible his wife had moved down south, or abroad.  Any ideas, although I can't think of any that would give me William Vincent's army regiment.
Thanks,

Swally
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: sancti on Sunday 04 January 15 22:38 GMT (UK)
:-\ Muddying the water...from 1901:

John Vincent 60 engine keeper b. Old Monkland
Isabella Vincent 56 b. Old Monkland
William Vincent 24 saw man b. Bothwell, Lanark
Helen Vincent 22
Andrew Vincent 19
Benjamin Vincent 13

Address: No 6 Lochview Cott, Cambusnethan

Monica

Monica, that William died 1955 so it must be the son of Thomas and Annie who is on the memorial
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: sancti on Sunday 04 January 15 22:57 GMT (UK)
1901 living at 2 Mcintyres Land, Main St, Cambusnethan

Thos Vincent  63
 Annie Vincent  59
 Thos Vincent  30
 John Vincent  25
 James Vincent  25
Wm Vincent  21
Maggie Vincent  35
 Christina Vincent  19
 May Vincent  11
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Lodger on Monday 05 January 15 00:57 GMT (UK)
Swally,

I have the 1925 Wishaw directory. There is a William Vincent, engineer, living at 4 Kennedy St.

Lodger
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: sancti on Monday 05 January 15 16:34 GMT (UK)
1920 VR has him there too

1920 Tenant Occupier   VINCENT WILLIAM-HOUSE 4 KENNEDY STREET-CAMBUSNETHAN
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Monday 05 January 15 18:20 GMT (UK)
The one living in Kennedy St could be the son of John and Isabella, surprising that I don't get him on the armed services returns as dead.  The memorial could be wrong of course!
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Lodger on Monday 05 January 15 19:06 GMT (UK)
Could he have died from wounds and his name added to the memorial at a later date?
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: sancti on Monday 05 January 15 19:19 GMT (UK)
If he died after 1925 he should be on Scotlandspeople

The son of Thomas and Annie was a furnace filler

The son of John and Isabella was a Boiler fireman (retrd) when he died 1955
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Monday 05 January 15 20:08 GMT (UK)
I searched for his death, albeit in Lanarkshire he would need to have died before the end of 1922 I think to be included on the memorial.  It looks like his son Thomas married in Shotts in 1931, I wonder if the family had moved to Shotts
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Monday 05 January 15 20:11 GMT (UK)
Could you maybe look for that on the VR?
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: MonicaL on Monday 05 January 15 20:48 GMT (UK)
Swally, the VRs on SP are free to search on indexed results (not viewing individual images, 2 units still for that) until tomorrow. See www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=708341.0

Monica  :)
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Monday 05 January 15 22:24 GMT (UK)
I just checked what details I have of possibly his brother Malcolm, son of Thomas and Ann Fisher Vincent, 2, Main Street, Newmains.

Swally
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: sancti on Friday 23 January 15 19:46 GMT (UK)
Did you check the VR's to see if he is listed?
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Friday 23 January 15 20:25 GMT (UK)
Sancti,
I don't have access to these?  What I can tell you however is -
I found 2 marriages in Cambusnethan for the name William Vincent
 
1905 VINCENT WILLIAM BROWN WILHELMINA CAMBUSNETHAN /LANARK
 
I also found the above couple on the 1911 census with 2 children Thomas and Roseanna
 
There are no marriage or death records in Scotland for the daughter Roseanna
I can't see a death record for Wilhelmina in Scotland using her maiden name as an additional search.
 
It looks like the family left Scotland after the 1911 census but I can't find a passenger record for them so maybe they went to England for William to work in a steel works there.
 
I couldn't find a passenger record for his Brother Malcolm going to Canada but found the family on the 1911 Canada census. As you know Malcolm enlisted there and died of Appendicitis on 31 July 1918 in Granville Canadian Special Hospital, Buxton, England.
 
I found a passenger record for his wife and children returning to Scotland on 4 September 1919 and gave their address as Main Street, Newmains
The CWGC gives her address as  79, Norfolk Rd., Byker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
Maybe she moved there to be near Wilhelmina and her family.

The floor is yours?

Swally
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Saturday 24 January 15 10:31 GMT (UK)
Guys,  thanks for all the help.  William Vincent served withe South African forces during the Great War and died.  His brother Malcolm served withe Canadians and also died, he is buried in Derbyshire.  I think I now have details on the guys who are named on the Newmains, Morningside and Cambusnethan war memorials.  Over 170 men are named yet many more made the ultimate sacrifice.  Thanks again,  Swally
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: MonicaL on Saturday 24 January 15 18:57 GMT (UK)
Well done, Swally  :)

Monica
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: vv on Saturday 16 April 16 21:45 BST (UK)
Hi Swally,

Did you write your book?

Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Friday 22 April 16 00:15 BST (UK)
Yes, I did, with the help of the Heritage Lottery I managed to get it printed.
I am very proud of the 3 books.

Ta,

Swally
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: doddsie4 on Monday 25 April 16 20:09 BST (UK)
   There is a marriage in 1926 at Blythswood: Rose Vincent to John Craig.      It is on Scotlands People.
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: Swally on Monday 25 April 16 20:50 BST (UK)
   There is a marriage in 1926 at Blythswood: Rose Vincent to John Craig.      It is on Scotlands People.

Sorry Doddsie,

I am looking back my posts...what was my question lol
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen
Post by: doddsie4 on Monday 25 April 16 23:12 BST (UK)
    You mentioned you hadn't traced a marriage or death for Roseanna.     But it doesn't matter - this isn't the Roseanna you were referring to.     I made a mistake.
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen William Vincent
Post by: Dina-Ann on Tuesday 26 December 17 22:36 GMT (UK)
Guys, I am compiling a book of those from Newmains / Morningsideand Cambusnethan and am stuck with one of the guys, a William Vincent.  I have no address, no age, no rank or brigade.
There is another Vincent on the memorial,  a Malcolm Vincent could it have been his brother?
He had emigrated to Canada and he also fell.  Any help would be appreciated.
The book is not for profit by the way.

Thanks,

Swally

Hi Swally,  It is very possible that Malcolm Vincent was his brother.  I think this Malcolm Vincent was my grandfather.  Malcolm was the son of Thomas Vincent and Ann Fisher Vincent. I have copies of birth and marriage certificates.  Malcolm and Helen Vincent went as missionaries from Scotland to Minto, New Brunswick.  Malcom died in WWI and my grandmother returned to Scotland, and then to Newcastle after the War.

I hope this helps,

Dina
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen William Vincent
Post by: Swally on Wednesday 27 December 17 08:50 GMT (UK)
Dina,
Thanks so much for the reply, the book has since been printed but I will update the information.  Do you have a photograph of him?

Thanks,

Swally
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen William Vincent
Post by: Dina-Ann on Wednesday 27 December 17 09:31 GMT (UK)
Swally, Unfortunately, I have no photographs, only copies of the marriage certificate of Thomas and Ann Vincent, Malcom Vincent's birth certificate.  I have tried to send you copies but I get an error message saying the files are too large and I don't know how to reduce them Regards, Dina

am now trying to send you only Malcolm's birth certificate
Title: Re: Newmains War Memorial - Help finding one of the fallen William Vincent
Post by: Dina-Ann on Wednesday 27 December 17 09:44 GMT (UK)
Swally,  here's my grandparents' marriage certificate, witnessed by Thomas and Ann Vincent. Dina