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Inverness / Re: grants of abernethy
« on: Saturday 03 August 13 21:38 BST (UK)  »
Hi Tom,

That's great - many thanks for checking that Wedding date.

How sad that they only had seven months married before Alex was killed.

Simon

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Bedfordshire Resources & Offers / Re: Flamstead War Memorial - Local Families Listed
« on: Thursday 25 July 13 17:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jon,

It's great to hear from you and it is, yet again, a wonderful example of the power of the internet to connect people following similar lines of research.

I do have more information on your Great Grandfather that i would be very happy to share with you but, rather than post it on this site, will send you a Personal Message in the hope we can then contact each other directly.

I will need to check my notes, which are at home, but i think your Great Grandfather may well be buried in the Flamstead Cemetery.

Simon

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Inverness / Re: grants of abernethy
« on: Thursday 25 July 13 17:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi Tom,

I'm sorry for the delay in replying to your latest post - to be honest I haven't been on the site for a while and your post was a welcome surprise when I logged on again.

The extra information you sent is very welcome and thanks for sharing it with me.

I thought you might like to know a little more about the 3/5th Bedfords - so I have set out below a link to a wonderful website created and maintained by a contact of mine, Steve Fuller.

http://www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/5thbn/5thbattalion.html

Can I just check with you the date that Alex married Elizabeth - your message says it was the 21st September 1918, but i show him as having died on the 23rd August 1918 (you can see the question forming in my head :))

I'm starting to think that Alex may have been wounded or sent back to the UK to help the 3/5th Battalion in it's goals of recruiting and training new soldiers for "the front".

Simon

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Bedfordshire Resources & Offers / Re: Flamstead War Memorial - Local Families Listed
« on: Sunday 28 April 13 18:38 BST (UK)  »
Hi Imber and Daisypetal,

Many thanks for sharing with me these thoughts and information you have found on the web.

In the last couple of years some of my research has paid off and I met an elderly lady who remembered seeing Leslie John Horwood in the uniform of the Royal Artillery at a Flamstead village event during WW2. So, it now appears as though he had joined up but must, pretty soon thereafter, have been invalided out with the TB that eventually killed him. At least that is what all the clues point to having happened. I even found a local newspaper article (Hemel Hempstead Gazette 22 April 1944) from the time confirming much of this.

On Daisypetals comment about information on the website she found I have to admit that I think that is an outstanding website and obviously a work of great skill and knowledge - but then again (says I - strongly tongue in cheek) I would say that wouldn't I as I am the individual that created it.  ;)

So, yes, that website is one of the ways in which I have been circulating some of the basic information i have collected in the hope it might be found by others researching the Flamstead names.

Thanks, once again, to the both of you.

Simon

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Bedfordshire Resources & Offers / Re: Flamstead War Memorial - Local Families Listed
« on: Sunday 28 April 13 18:25 BST (UK)  »
Hi TallaNicholex,

Thanks for contacting me about your Great Great Uncle, Joshua Dyer. I do, indeed, have more information on this casualty and would be very happy to share it with you.

I will shortly send you a Personal Message, on here, so that we can establish direct contact.

Regards,

Simon

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Derbyshire / Re: Middleton/Bennett/Goodwin
« on: Monday 01 April 13 12:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi Cousin,

I thought it might be too much of a coincidence to hear of someone new who had the same spoon you had described to me years ago - but I thought I had better play it safe and post a reply on here, just in case.

Hope you are.

S

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Derbyshire / Re: Middleton/Bennett/Goodwin
« on: Sunday 31 March 13 23:49 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I'm not too sure who on this e-mail chain I might have spoken to already about this (that's the problem with everyone having "usernames" on here) but I am descended from the Goodwins of Lowfields Farm, Wheston.

I might have some relevant information regarding the Bennett / Goodwin link.

Regards,

Simon Goodwin

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Inverness / Re: grants of abernethy
« on: Thursday 01 March 12 10:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Tom,

I'm pleased to hear the information is of interest and I hope that it is a stepping stone on your way to finding out more about the "missing" Duncan.

If you would like to see a brief overview of the research I have been doing (including Alexander Grant) then please click on the following ....

http://flamsteadpc.btck.co.uk/Documents/FlamsteadWarMemorial

I would certainly be interested to hear if you do manage to discover anything further on this family.

Simon

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Inverness / Re: grants of abernethy
« on: Wednesday 29 February 12 15:50 GMT (UK)  »
Tom,

I have found the following additional reference in a book called "Poppies From The Heart Of Strathspey", written by Peter Anderson.

“Alexander Grant was born in Grantown on Spey 23rd August 1887. The youngest son of Alex and Jessie Grant of Pityoulish, Aviemore and husband of Lizzie Simpson. They lived in Dunstable and at Croftnahaven in Boat of Garten. Alexander worked as a chauffeur. He enlisted in Hertford on the 14th December 1914, Alexander first arrived in France on the 10th July 1915. He was killed in action on the 23rd August 1918.”

Dunstable to Croftnahaven must have been some commute ....

Unfortunately, all of my on line information sources (Find My Past, Ancestry etc.) don't appear to cover Scotland post 1900 so I can't corroborate any of the marriage details etc or have any idea where Alexander and Lizzie were in 1911.

Simon

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