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Title: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: *Sandra* on Friday 13 January 17 14:48 GMT (UK)
Appeal for relatives - January 2017 - If you are related and can provide CWGC with documentation, please contact UKNA Technical Team.

http://www.cwgc.org/

75453002 9237 Andrew Miller  22/12/1917 Scots Guards Private
DALZIEL (AIRBLES) CEMETERY B.1333

Sandra
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: *Sandra* on Friday 13 January 17 14:49 GMT (UK)
This looks like Andrew with his parents in 1901 Scotts Stables Bellshill Lanarkshire

Andrew Miller 44
Jane Yompom 43
Alex Miller   21
Robert Miller 13
Marion Miller 8
Andrew Miller 6

Sandra
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: *Sandra* on Friday 13 January 17 14:51 GMT (UK)

WW1 Pension records for Andrew Miller (1914) - indicate father was Andrew Miller - 60 Enfield Place, Lady Mill Road. Motherwell. Lanarkshire.

Sandra
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: Lodger on Friday 13 January 17 15:22 GMT (UK)
Enfield Place, Ladywell Road has long gone. By 1925 number 60 was occupied by John Brown, vanman. No.38 was occupied by Robert Miller, engine driver.
In the 1911 street directory No.60 was occupied by Andrew Miller, carter.
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: MonicaL on Friday 13 January 17 19:36 GMT (UK)
Just a thought Sandra...not sure if Andrew Jnr's mother was a Miller Steel. There is a family tree here with mother Janet showing as Janet Miller Steel http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/50594587/person/26426557788/facts

Have sent tree owner a message, but not sure it is the right couple. The census entry you posted for 1901 is different never mind that Andrew Jnr's age.

Monica
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: MonicaL on Friday 13 January 17 19:57 GMT (UK)

Jane Yompom 43


From that 1901 snip you posted, possibly wife/mother is a Jane Thomson. There is a marriage between a Jean Thomson and an Andrew Millar in 1879 in Holytown (fits well with area from censuses).

Monica
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: *Sandra* on Friday 13 January 17 20:01 GMT (UK)
Deleted Monica

Sandra
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: MonicaL on Friday 13 January 17 20:07 GMT (UK)
Think it is the marriage for a Jane/Jean Thomson to Andrew Miller in 1879.

The family in 1891:

Andrew Miller 36 van man b. Lanark, Dalserf
Jane Miller 35 b. Lanark, Newarthill
Alexand Miller 11
Thomas Miller 10
Sarah Miller 6
Robert Miller 3
Watter Snddon 21 boarder

Address: Scotts Stables, Bothwell

Monica
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: MonicaL on Friday 13 January 17 20:16 GMT (UK)
Just from the general index from SP for the 1911 census in Dalziel Lanarkshire:

Andrew Miller 56
Jane T Miller 55
Robert Miller 24
Marion Miller 18
Andrew Miller 16
Andrew Miller 5...a grandson?

Monica
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: scotmum on Friday 20 January 17 10:14 GMT (UK)
Andrew senior's 1915 death notice in the Hamilton Advertiser notes his wife as 'June Thomson'.

Andrew junior's death notice refers to him as 'youngest son'.
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: Lodger on Friday 20 January 17 16:04 GMT (UK)
does anyone know why the CWGC is looking for relatives of these soldiers?
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: *Sandra* on Friday 20 January 17 16:09 GMT (UK)
The Commission's principles:

Each of the dead should be commemorated by name on the headstone or memorial
Headstones and memorials should be permanent
Headstones should be uniform
There should be no distinction made on account of military or civil rank, race or creed

sometimes the names appear on a memorial but not at the correct cemetery.

Volunteers are working with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to search for men and women who were missed off official lists. Some died of their injuries after being discharged from the forces, while the deaths of some others were wrongly classified.

http://news.sky.com/story/first-world-war-appeal-to-help-recognise-forgotten-victims-10700899

Sandra
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: Lodger on Friday 20 January 17 16:37 GMT (UK)
Thanks Sandra, that's interesting information.
Title: Re: The Commonwealth War Graves Committee are Looking for relatives of............
Post by: *Sandra* on Friday 20 January 17 16:38 GMT (UK)
Volunteers are working with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to search for men and women who were missed off official lists. Some died of their injuries after being discharged from the forces, while the deaths of some others were wrongly classified.

http://news.sky.com/story/first-world-war-appeal-to-help-recognise-forgotten-victims-10700899

Sandra