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Thank you both. I vacillate between thinking it must be my uncle to thinking that the writing on the back of the photo doesn't fit that identification. At least you both think the photo was taken WW1!
Lemming

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Hi,
I am trying to establish the identity of this young man. I have a relative who was an Able Seaman Naval Volunteer who died in 1915, Gallipoli, aged 22, whilst serving in the Collingwood Battalion, looking after the horses. Could this be his photo, found in a family collection? It is much faded and I cannot read what is written on his hat, nor does the writing on the reverse mean anything to me.
Many thanks for your time.
Lemming

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Cornwall Lookup Requests / Re: St Morwenna Church in Marhamchurch
« on: Tuesday 13 February 18 15:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Rosie. I'll try them.
Lemming

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Cornwall Lookup Requests / St Morwenna Church in Marhamchurch
« on: Sunday 11 February 18 13:08 GMT (UK)  »
If anyone is visiting St Morwenna in Marhamchurch I would be grateful if you would look at the memorials on my behalf.
I’m trying to trace the Marrais/Marrys/ Marhayes family who according to Magna Britannica by Daniel Lysons, pub 1814, had an ‘ancient memorial in the church’. I realise this is a long shot but there may be a slate memorial on the south wall that, according to the listing of the church, is currently illegible. Could this be the Marrais memorial or has it somehow survived from the sixteenth century (?) elsewhere?
If any one local knows anything of this ancient family I would be very interested to learn more. Again, according to some sources, their seat, the ‘barton-house’, (I have no idea what this is) became a farmhouse owned by a Mr Richard Burden Bray in the nineteenth century. Does anyone know if this house still exists?
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Lemming

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East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) / Re: Agnes Darling and Peter Nisbet
« on: Monday 02 October 17 14:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to another researcher, I now know the parents of Agnes Darling: Margaret Liddel 1748- 1819 and David Darling 1753 - 1808, a shepherd working at Dunse Castle;both buried Bunkle and Preston (The session Book of Bunkle and Preston).
I think Margaret was born 1748 to a Patrick Lidell of Cranshaws; siblings James 1743, Alexander 1745
William 1748.
Lemming

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East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) / Re: Agnes Darling and Peter Nisbet
« on: Thursday 28 September 17 13:24 BST (UK)  »
Thank you - that certainly eliminates Peter, the father of George!
Lemming

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East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) / Re: Agnes Darling and Peter Nisbet
« on: Tuesday 26 September 17 17:53 BST (UK)  »
Thank you both. It appears that the Peter living with his son in 1851 is a different Peter to the one living with his wife and daughter in 1841. The 1841 Peter must be  the 'right' Peter I think.
Lemming

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East Lothian (Haddingtonshire) / Agnes Darling and Peter Nisbet
« on: Sunday 24 September 17 11:47 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
I'm looking for any information on the parentage and family of Peter Nisbet and Agnes Darling who married 1799 Duns, Berwickshire.
These children were baptised Garvald:
David 1801
John 1803
Robert 1805
Alexander 1811
and at Haddington
Adam 1813
William 1816
Margaret 1820

Any information would be much appreciated.
Lemming

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Australia / Re: Bottrell deaths in New South Wales
« on: Thursday 15 September 16 15:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,
Again - many thanks. I tried to find Joseph Bottrell in S.A and found one, a miner in Moonta which interested me for a while, until I realised it was an entirely different Josph Bottrell!
The couple must have moved to Broken Hill about 1901/2 so the time-slot in S.A would have been very narrow.
We'll have to wait a while to apply for Doreen's birth certificate and hope that that will give some further information. It seems that it will be very difficult to find her natural parents but I agree the name "Lincoln" may well be significant as it isn't a family name in Joseph's or Selina's family so it might well provide an important lead.
Lemming

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