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The Common Room / Re: British Regiments at Castle of Good Hope, South Africa after 1841
« on: Wednesday 29 May 24 21:54 BST (UK)  »
Good evening,

I don't know why the 2nd link doesn't work. A lot of it was just repeating the 1st link but it also had a list of regiments. I will have another search.

John915

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Armed Forces / Re: Unknown Ribbon
« on: Tuesday 28 May 24 22:26 BST (UK)  »
Good evening,

A bit faded but I would say that is the Waterloo medal.

John915

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The Common Room / Re: British Regiments at Castle of Good Hope, South Africa after 1841
« on: Tuesday 28 May 24 21:53 BST (UK)  »
Good evening,

Only just came across your post. This is the place you are looking for, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Good_Hope

John915

Added; https://www.rootschat.com/links/01t7j/ Sorry, This one doesn't work.

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The Common Room / Re: Registered Foster Mothers
« on: Tuesday 28 May 24 21:38 BST (UK)  »
Good evening,

My mother was a registered foster mother with a catholic home for wayward girls in London. We lived and always have, in Sussex. The term wayward girls was applied to young catholic girls who had got pregnant. Generally they were kept in the homes until the baby was delivered but sometimes stayed at home until due date grew near. The baby was taken away and given to a foster mother until adoption could be arranged.

Some babies were born to young married mothers who could not cope or were incapable of looking after them. These were generally given up voluntarily. I grew up in a house that had a constant flow of babies aged from a day old to a couple of months. They were delivered to us by the catholic nuns or other workers and stayed for anything from a couple of weeks to a few months. By the time I was 8 I could feed, burp, bathe and dress babies. I learnt to fold nappies, kite fold mostly but also box fold.

She gave up when my youngest brother came along. But after a couple of years started again with East Sussex County Council. Not so many of these and often a little older, up to about the age of 2. 

When my mum died and I sorted all her belongings out I found some letters from people who had adopted the babies. They knew who mum was because they came with the nuns or council staff to collect their new family member. But many of the catholic babies we never knew where they went.

When I married and my new wife came out to Germany she started as well. Taking a couple of babies through SAAFA until Junior came along. One we only had for a couple of days then he went back to mum. The 2nd we had for sometime, her mum just couldn't cope and the husband was useless. I often wonder what became of Stacy, she would be in her early, mid 40s now.

John915

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The Lighter Side / Re: What exactly did an Ayah do
« on: Monday 15 April 24 13:53 BST (UK)  »
Good afternoon,

Only just read this so a few years behind. But to elaborate on YTs replies this is the definition of Ayah.

Origin

Anglo-Indian, from Portuguese aia ‘nurse’, feminine of aio ‘tutor’

John915

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Armed Forces / Re: Help identifying soldier in Scottish Regiment - 1905
« on: Thursday 22 February 24 22:00 GMT (UK)  »
Good evening,

The badge on the sporran is Gordon Highlanders. Also the two long black tails on the sporran are Gordons. So a volunteer battalion of theirs.

John915

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The Lighter Side / Re: The railway revolution and its impact on our ancestors.
« on: Thursday 22 February 24 17:39 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: coombs on Thursday 22 February 24 14:57 GMT (UK)
Quote from: John915 on Wednesday 21 February 24 18:10 GMT (UK)
Good evening,

Quote from: coombs on Monday 08 May 23 15:47 BST (UK)
My great gran would have travelled from Oxford to London to train as a domestic servant in a Stamford Hill convent, then by the 1911 census she was working as a servant in Bexhill in Sussex. I guess she got the London to Brighton line but got a train that turned off at Keymer towards Bexhill when she travelled down to Bexhill to start her new job. By about 1916 she was in Rochford, Essex.

She would have 4 choices of route;
London to Hastings via Wivelsfield (Burgess Hill), Lewes, Polegate and on to Bexhill. This may have required a train change.
London to Hastings via Hurst Green, East Grinstead and Lewes etc.
London to Hastings via Hurst Green, Ashurst, Rotherfield, Mayfield, Heathfield, Hailsham and onto the coast line. This may have required going into Eastbourne to change trains.
The 4th route was further east, Tunbridge, Tonbridge Wells, Robertsbridge, Battle and to Bexhill but at the other station.
All of those could have involved changing trains at that time although I think the first one always had a through train. My brother was the expert on trains in the south east but no longer with us.

John915

Thanks for the info. Yes, London to Hastings seems the likeliest route. She was christened in a Hackney church in March 1910 aged 14, while living at a Hackney convent at 121 Stamford Hill. As said she must have been training for domestic service, then got a job in Sussex by the 1911 census.


Quote from: coombs on Thursday 22 February 24 14:57 GMT (UK)
Quote from: John915 on Wednesday 21 February 24 18:10 GMT (UK)
Good evening,

Quote from: coombs on Monday 08 May 23 15:47 BST (UK)
My great gran would have travelled from Oxford to London to train as a domestic servant in a Stamford Hill convent, then by the 1911 census she was working as a servant in Bexhill in Sussex. I guess she got the London to Brighton line but got a train that turned off at Keymer towards Bexhill when she travelled down to Bexhill to start her new job. By about 1916 she was in Rochford, Essex.

She would have 4 choices of route;
London to Hastings via Wivelsfield (Burgess Hill), Lewes, Polegate and on to Bexhill. This may have required a train change.
London to Hastings via Hurst Green, East Grinstead and Lewes etc.
London to Hastings via Hurst Green, Ashurst, Rotherfield, Mayfield, Heathfield, Hailsham and onto the coast line. This may have required going into Eastbourne to change trains.
The 4th route was further east, Tunbridge, Tonbridge Wells, Robertsbridge, Battle and to Bexhill but at the other station.
All of those could have involved changing trains at that time although I think the first one always had a through train. My brother was the expert on trains in the south east but no longer with us.

John915

Thanks for the info. Yes, London to Hastings seems the likeliest route. She was christened in a Hackney church in March 1910 aged 14, while living at a Hackney convent at 121 Stamford Hill. As said she must have been training for domestic service, then got a job in Sussex by the 1911 census.

From the Hackney area she could have got a train due south to Wapping. Through the London tunnel to Rotherhythe, one of Brunels doings, then down to the eastern route via Tonbridge etc. Although it became part of the underground in 1913. It has recently been refurbished and put into mainline use again.

John915

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The Lighter Side / Re: The railway revolution and its impact on our ancestors.
« on: Thursday 22 February 24 10:36 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning,

One thing to remember from the early days of rail travel. Was the lack of facilities on a train. No corridor coaches in those days, no buffet car. So people may have had to leave the train quickly at a station for relief. Packed lunches would have to be taken. Or people would have to actually break their journey for an hour or so then resume on a later train.
In the mid 60s I regularly travelled from Sussex to Dorset. A journey involving several changes. Cooksbridge to Lewes, Lewes to Brighton, Brighton to Portsmouth, Portsmouth to Southampton and Southampton to Wool. The first 4 were all electric non corridor trains. It wasn't until Southampton the train from London was a corridor train, drawn by steam. Military travel warrants were always by the cheapest route so Cooksbridge to London, then to Wool was not allowed.

John915

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The Lighter Side / Re: The railway revolution and its impact on our ancestors.
« on: Wednesday 21 February 24 18:10 GMT (UK)  »
Good evening,

Quote from: coombs on Monday 08 May 23 15:47 BST (UK)
My great gran would have travelled from Oxford to London to train as a domestic servant in a Stamford Hill convent, then by the 1911 census she was working as a servant in Bexhill in Sussex. I guess she got the London to Brighton line but got a train that turned off at Keymer towards Bexhill when she travelled down to Bexhill to start her new job. By about 1916 she was in Rochford, Essex.

She would have 4 choices of route;
London to Hastings via Wivelsfield (Burgess Hill), Lewes, Polegate and on to Bexhill. This may have required a train change.
London to Hastings via Hurst Green, East Grinstead and Lewes etc.
London to Hastings via Hurst Green, Ashurst, Rotherfield, Mayfield, Heathfield, Hailsham and onto the coast line. This may have required going into Eastbourne to change trains.
The 4th route was further east, Tunbridge, Tonbridge Wells, Robertsbridge, Battle and to Bexhill but at the other station.
All of those could have involved changing trains at that time although I think the first one always had a through train. My brother was the expert on trains in the south east but no longer with us.

John915

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