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Hi everyone hope you all had a Christmas of sorts 

Can anyone with access to Find my Past help please.  I'm going over old findings and adding/changing records collected.

Sometime ago I found a record for Ananias Phelps b. 1852 Bisley Gloucestershire and a death record via FindMyPast which reads d. 19th March 1875 age 23 yrs -Corporal 1/18th Regt
Date buried 20th March 1875
Cause - Typhoid Fever
Buried by Capt Batts 1/18th Reg - Bareilly Benjal India

I don't have access to FindMyPast and can't find anything on Ancestry.  I'd like to know what regiment he was in and when he joined etc so I can do further research.

Many thanks - have a good New Year.

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Does anyone have information regarding a Pest House 1850 - 1860+ in Oakridge Lynch Bisley.  Whilst researching the line of Philip Gardiner b. 1824 Bisley I came across him in the 1871 census living with a number of children (no female adult) with the surname Phelps.   Further checks identified some of the children's baptisms giving the Mother as Hannah Phelps and no father named.  Her address was given as Pest House.  Philip is however named as father on some of the children's marriage certs.  My assumption is he is the father of the children and for some reason didn't or couldn't marry the mother but why is she residing in a Pest House.  At a guess could this be a workhouse might she be ill but still able to give birth to several children or could there be another reason 
Any help would be appreciated.   

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I have tried to order a marriage cert for Emma Gardiner & Jesse Phelps but have been unsuccessful due to (I think) Jesse's page no being mis-transcribed. I have found both via Ancestry and looking at the original records both are recorded as having married in Stroud Glos Dec 1862 -vol 6a pg 589.  However  the info given by Ancestry shows Jesse as vol 6a pg 580 I tried requesting the cert using just Emma's full name and her father's name but the GRO kindly returned my money saying the names didn't match the info given so I'm not sure if myself and quite a few others on Ancestry have the wrong Emma married to Jesse or somehow I didn't complete the form correctly.  Any ideas anyone what I can do next to confirm this either way.    

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I would be grateful if someone with access to Ancestry could look up the record for Gloucester Marriages & Banns 1754 - 1938 - 24th Nov 1806 Bisley - Ann Kent m. John Jeffris and go into the actual hand written record available.  My reading of this is Ann HUNT not Kent it does seem quite clear to me what do you think 

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Has anyone heard of Fagan Homes in or around the Glos area .   

I've just come across Cecil Nathaniel Gardiner age 11 yrs born Oakridge, whose fare was paid for by Fagan Homes to travel to Canada in 1910.  I belive his father Joseph Nathaniel Gardiner died in 1916, his occupation was given as Labourer and Mason on census.   Cecil had other relatives living in the Oakridge/Bisley area.  I'm wondering if he was a bad boy, hence the name Fagan Home,  and been transported or could there be some other reason. 

Any thoughts appreciated.