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World War One / Name Brought to Notice of War Secretary
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 21:06 BST (UK)  »
My great-grandfather's British Army Pension Records state that on 24 Feb 1917: "Name brought to notice of the Secretary of State for War [Lord Stanley] for valuable service rendered in connection with the war." Is there anywhere I could look to find out what this regarded?

At the time, he was with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, 6th Battalion. He was 39 years old and serving in England because he had been deemed too old to serve at the Front. By 1917, he had been a soldier for 20 years, having joined in 1897.

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England / Florence Maud(e) Darlington: A Mystery
« on: Wednesday 25 October 23 01:13 BST (UK)  »
This post concerns both Surrey and Kent.

I am trying to find the parents of Florence Maud(e) Darlington. Florence is my husband's GG. Here's what I know:

Married
William Henry Cook
Christ Church
Woking, Surrey
3 Jan 1903
Father unknown; Father's profession unknown
Witness Rosina Maria Lea Postill (in 1891, missionary to the fallen; in 1911, parlour maid at Trevelyan School)
Witness Elizabeth Bailey Cook (husband's step-mother)

1911 Census
Living with Fanny Brown (husband's aunt), husband & 3 children
Estimated birth year 1883
Birthplace Margate, Kent
Lived in Reigate, Surrey

Divorced William Henry Cook on 24 Jan 1921

Married Theophilus Theodore Alfred Dudley (known as Alfred Dudley) in third quarter of 1922 in Reigate, Surrey

She had 9 children - 6 with William Cook and 3 with Alfred Dudley. Two died in infancy.

1939 Census
Living with Alfred Dudley
Birth date 20 Dec 1885

I have not been able to find any record of a Florence Maud(e) Darlington born in Margate, Kent, between 1882 and 1886. In the 1901 Census, there is a Florence Darlington who was a patient in the Metropolitan Convalescent Institution in Bexhill, Sussex, but I don't know if this is the same person as the one I'm looking for.

If she was born in an unwed mother's home in Kent, would she be given her mother's surname?

I have investigated many Florence Darlingtons and Maud Darlingtons, but haven't found parents for my Florence Darlington. I am beginning to think she invented her surname.

Thanks in advance for your sleuthing.

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Devon Lookup Requests / Mary Narracott
« on: Monday 23 October 23 20:42 BST (UK)  »
Would anyone be able to look up the marriage record for Mary Narracott (born about 1788)? She married James Delarue (from Loughborough, Leicestershire) in Nymet Tracey on 4 Feb 1821. She would have been about 33 years old at her marriage. I would like to know if she was a widow or spinster when she married so that I can locate her parents. She died in 1857 in South Ockendon, Essex.

Thanks for your help.

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Leicestershire / James Delarew / De-la-rue / Delarue / Delarne
« on: Sunday 22 October 23 03:45 BST (UK)  »
I have traced my family tree to James Delarue (also spelled Delarew, De-la-rue, Delarne, De la rew, etc.), who lived in Loughborough, Leicestershire in the 1780s. He married Jane Dexter sometime before 1782, but I have been unable to locate a birth record, marriage record, or death record for him. He had 6 children whose births were all registered in the Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970:
  • Jane b. 1782
  • James b. 1783
  • William b. 1776
  • Martha b. 1788
  • Thomas b. 1790
  • John b. 1792

I have checked all related trees for him in Ancestry, but no one seems to have located any records for him other than the birth records of his children.

Has anyone run across any variation of this surname in Leicestershire, specifically in Loughborough?

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