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Northumberland / Re: Missing death index and certificate [Brickwall]
« on: Friday 25 May 18 09:42 BST (UK)  »
I didn't realise how many Giovanni Battista there were in the U.K. when I read your post and decided to see if I could help .
( I also found a newspaper article about a Giovanni Battista , dated May 1915 , who had drowned at sea during bad weather . I ruled this gentleman out as the article stated he was in the Royal Navy .)
Re the marriage certificate information , I wouldn't rule out Giovanni still being alive at the time . When couples split up the wives would often refer to themselves as "Widows" at this time .

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Northumberland / Re: Missing death index and certificate [Brickwall]
« on: Friday 25 May 18 05:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi ,
Also found a Death Reg for
GIOVANI BATISTA , Dec quarter 1915 , Chelsea , England ;States age as being 55 yrs - ages on death certificates are not always exact , my grandmother died in 1970 and my uncle registered her age as being 2 yrs older than she was .

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Europe / Re: ITALIAN RESEARCH
« on: Friday 25 May 18 04:16 BST (UK)  »
Hi ,
Giovanni Battista , of 89,Finchley Road , Hampstead , Middlesex , died 16th May 1931 at The Italian Hospital , Queen Square , Middlesex . His widow was Camilla Battista .
Is this your  Giovanni ?

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Somerset Resources & Offers / Re: The Monmouth Rebels 1685
« on: Saturday 29 July 17 21:38 BST (UK)  »
There is a book , free to read , on the site
                    babel.hathitrust.org
which lists the "rebels" who were convicted & then transported to Barbados in 1685 .
Along with their names are their ages , occupations , which prison they had been held in , which ship they were transported on & from which Port , the name of the ship's Captain , and if they survived the journey ( some died & were " buried at sea " - those that died en route are also named )  the date when they arrived / were delivered in Barbados & the name of the person who bought them.
There is also a list of names of those that " survived " their 10 year sentence and were allowed to buy passage from Barbados , with dates , names of the ships and their destinations - some returned to the U.K. but most who left Barbados went to the U.S. 

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Herefordshire Resources & Offers / Re: Link: Herefordshire Wills
« on: Wednesday 26 July 17 07:58 BST (UK)  »
Cheers for that Mike . I really should check the spelling when I post .
And thanks for the link

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Herefordshire Resources & Offers / Re: Link: Herefordshire Wills
« on: Friday 21 July 17 08:14 BST (UK)  »
Besides Herefordshire Record Office / Archives searchable database , there is also the
 Longton Historical Society Archive website
 that has Will & Probate transciptions and also the
 National Library of Wales : Wills
 that has scanned originals .

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Herefordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Hereford wills
« on: Thursday 20 July 17 18:07 BST (UK)  »
Herefordshire Record Office /  Archives has a searchable index of all Herefordshire Wills - you can search by person name or  placename /area/parish  , by Executors or date of Probate . If you find the Will you were looking for , you can then buy a copy .

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WW1 In Memoriam / Re: Private Richard Jones 35310, 14th Bn Welsh Regiment (Swansea Pals)
« on: Tuesday 11 November 14 18:26 GMT (UK)  »
Hi . My information comes from the book written by (  Officer ) SIDNEY ROGERSON entitled TWELE DAYS ON THE SOMME . I have researched the South Wales Borderers part in the Battle of Mametz , from various army records and military experts opinions , and read all the newspaper reports etc. on the free WELSH NEWSPAPERS site and free 1914CYMRU site , which I found pretty depressing stuff , but this book , written by someone who actually served in the trenches at the Somme          ( though not in Mametz ) was not as depressing as you might think it would be . On the contrary , I found it excellent in the way it portrayed the mind set of those who served in the 2nd World War , and I admired those who did even more after reading the book .   

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WW1 In Memoriam / Re: Private Richard Jones 35310, 14th Bn Welsh Regiment (Swansea Pals)
« on: Saturday 08 November 14 22:17 GMT (UK)  »
My grandfather's cousin , FRANCIS JOHN MEATS , from Pontypridd , was also killed in the Battle of Mametz Wood , on the 10th of July ,  and his name is on the Thiepval Memorial . The Memorial commemorates " the missing " , however I find this term misleading . During the 1st World War , when a soldier was killed in action , it was  , under Governments orders , customary to remove the identifying "dog-tags " from those killed . They were either removed by those fighting with them if they were able to or by soldiers who were specially selected to leave the trenches under cover of darkness , when the fighting stopped , to gather them from the fallen . The original idea was to return them to the soldiers loved ones , however they were not , maybe because there was such a huge death toll . It became apparent later that this was such a bad idea when they realized that they could not identify the bodies when it came to burying them , hence the MISSING are not actually missing , they know who they are from the names on the removed dog-tags  , they are actually the UNIDENTIFIED 

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