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Hi Californiadreaming,

Thanks for your suggestions and the link to the Glasgow Directory. I was interested to read about your family history in the same area as my parents.  Can you tell me where St. Joseph Primary was? 

I will have a better study of old maps of the Millerston St. area.. I know that my mother's family also lived in Bluevale St., before Millerston St.

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Isn't it amazing just how much time we can spend on our research?? lolol.  There goes the housework again!!!!

Hi Maggs,

St Joseph's RC Primary was, at that time, in Raglan Street.  The building is still there but the school has moved to a new building around the corner.  If my memory serves research showed that the playground was on the roof!  Health and Safety would have a fit today.

You are so right about research and housework!  Currently I am on a roll with new information and the housework has gone to pot!

Hazel

Hi MonicaL

I have asked friends to sharpen that photograph to see if Dad there.  However, I would venture to guess the photo is not St Joseph's Primary as the picture appears to be all boys.  I am 99% sure St joseph's Primary was mixed.  But you would know better than I!

When the sharpened photo is returned to me I shall happily fut here to you to download to your own files.

In the meantime any information you have about St Joseph's and St Mungo's between 1924 an 1935 (ish) would be very much appreciated as I am trying to build a picture of my FIL's education,  He was born 1922 and joined army in April 1939!

Thank you

Hi Monica,

Another year on and a few more chips out of the wall.  Dominic Michael was indeed in the Royal Artillery as Dominic Cunningham Casey.  He was at Singapore (albeit briefly) arriving on 13 January 1942 and escaping on 13 February 1942!  He was reported missing but showed up about a month later and was registered back to the army in  the Ceylon/India command area.  His whereabouts were known for just 3 days before he went AWOL once more.  Another soldier from his unit sighted him in Durban in June but vanished AGAIN!

the gap is getting smaller, I need to figure out how he got from Durban to Trinidad.  i suppose one avenue of research is torpedoed ships as he claimed to have been torpedoed three times when he was recruited into the USED Coast Guard in Trinidad.  A long shot but so many of his other stories have held a kernel of truth.

The hunt goes on!

Hi,

Ancestry has never been a reliable source of information, unless it's based on actual records and let me guess those family trees aren't linked to a single French record, are they ?

Back to the UK, what does his marriage record say ?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZGDD-TD6Z

Does his burial record mention his age ?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CFX3-MP6Z

According to his family name, he is more likely to have come from the Western part of France.

Someone mentions Brittany as a possible place of origin

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K8P8-5YP

"Place of birth may possibly be Nantes, Brittany, France. According to papers belonging to the family of Doctor Thomas Hodgkin who was a pupil of Peter Vincent Cassanet, Peter was originally from Brittany before coming to London at the time of the French Revolution."

The deep roots are probably in Aquitaine.

Do you have DNA matches in France ?

Hi David,

In response to the various questions:

His marriage certificate says he married Ann Dean in St Peters Church Shoreditch on 19th August 1799 by Joseph Rose the curator and in the presence of George Lemming/s and Jeremiah Smith.

His death certificate says he died on 17 June 1848 in Upper Clacton aged 88 and describes him as being of independent means.  The cause of death was certified as Bronchitis for a few days.  the death was reported by his daughter Emma Martin who was present at his death.  The death was registered on 22 June 1848.  He is buried in Abney Park Cemetery near Stole Newington and the grave is numbered 003319.

The above information comes from records available on Ancestry, either directly from their own records or certificates posted by other family historians.

My DNA composition shows 100% Northern European.  This is broken down into 49% British and Irish, 38.6% French and German (but highlights Brittany) and 4.1% Scandinavian.  The remaining 8.3% is broadly north western Europe.

Daisy1942

I have a copy of Peter Vincent's marriage certificate in my tree.  I have a picture of his tombstone in  London.  He is listed in the 1841 census and there it states he was born in foreign parts. However, here his name is written as Capuret. All the records are in a relatively small area of London

I am simply asking for any earlier information about this man