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Hello all,

Scrimnet kindly directed me to this forum because I have a badge that needs some identification.  My grandfather served in WW2 but we have very little knowledge of where and no knowledge at all of with whom.  I know we can obtain this information from the services now that he has passed away, but they require details that we just don't have.

Anyway, as a starting point, here is the somewhat blurry picture of the badge, and then my granda in his portrait shot.  We DO know that in 1941 he journeyed to Ireland to meet up with his crew, because a long told family story is that my grandmother followed him there with my baby mother in his arms.  But that is all I know.  Yes, he was of Irish descent, but born in Scotland.



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Thanks for reading,

Nina

Hi all,

I am hoping someone can restore this wonderful photo of my Granda taken somewhere in Europe in WW2.  He used to ride that bike all over the place during the war.



Nina

Hi all,

While scrounging around my local cemetery I found the resting place of Robert Martin Laird born 1886 in Scotland, and who married Margaret Boag.  I think they married in Calton Glasgow in 1923 according to Scotland's People.  He died in 1926, after travelling to Australia, I presume.

I have a photo of the MI.  If anyone would like a copy, please PM me.

Nina

Hi all,

Going back over records I found my gggrandfather had the occupation of "gutta purcha worker" in the 1861 census in Glasgow.  I probably laid this aside at the time for future investigation, but forgot about it.  A quick google led me to revise the spelling to gutta PERCHA, and seems to have been a product like rubber from a tree.  According to Wikipedia, it was used to make anything from furniture to golf balls.

Gggrandfather went on to be a hammerman, but I thought it was interesting to have had a different kind of employment.  I imagine not too many people had this employment at the time.

I wonder if there was some kind of factory in Glasgow where he might have worked?

Anyway, I just thought I would share this, as I hadn't seen it before.

Nina

Hello,

Can anyone tell me how to find a 1940 death registration?  I have a Camillo Francesco Granelli born in East Coventry in December 1939 who had died by 1941.  Father was Camillo Francesco Granelli, mother Nettie or Jane, m.s. Easton.

Nina