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Armed Forces / Re: Help needed researching in the Great War period & South Africa
« on: Monday 14 November 16 19:30 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Kathryn,

I think you and I have corresponded about my mother's uncle Tom Fisher before some years ago.  Since then I have gathered more information about the Fisher family in general but nothing more on Thomas William though I do try again every so often as I know that there might just be something put on the internet or I might just "see" something I didn't realize was in front of my nose all the time.

Reply to this then you will have done three posts and will be able to use PMs

Missprim

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England / Re: Walter Thomas HURREN & Minnie LYNAM
« on: Saturday 16 May 15 08:50 BST (UK)  »
Hello reecy01,

I should have posted yesterday to let you know that I had sent you a personal message about my relationship to Minnie Lynam. To read your PMs click on "MY MESSAGES" at the top of the forum page.

Minnie's mother Hannah,and my great grandfather John were brother and sister so that means you and I are 3rd cousins.

Missprim

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Nottinghamshire / Re: CHANTRY, CHANTREY, CHAUNTRY
« on: Thursday 24 March 11 22:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Tracey,

Sorry I've been away from Rootchat so long. Edward Chantry (1739-1769) was the fifth son and sixth child of George Chantry and Elizabeth Higginbotham. So far as I know he didn't get married or have any children.

missprim

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Technical Help / Re: Undisclosed recipient
« on: Thursday 19 March 09 22:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Bcc stands for Blind Carbon Copy so it is usually a third address line under the main recipient address line, the middle one being Cc (Carbon copy) which would be seen by the recipient.

If all the addresses to which the e-mail is being sent are placed in the Bcc line then no-one who receives a copy will be able to see the addresses of any of the others.  It is a way of sending e-mails to a groups of people without allowing any of them to pick up the addresses of the rest of the group. Having said this some e-mail systems do not allow e-mails to be sent without at least one address in the main address line (mine is like this) so I put one address on the main address line and all the others in Bcc.

I hope this helps.

Missprim

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Armed Forces / Re: Help needed researching in the Great War period & South Africa
« on: Monday 16 March 09 12:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Ken,

Thank you so much for your help. I've had a quick look at the links which look very interesting but I won't be able to read them properly until this evening. 

Missprim

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Armed Forces / Re: Help needed researching in the Great War period & South Africa
« on: Monday 16 March 09 10:10 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Thank you Neil1821 and km1971.  It's really great to have the information you have unearthed I never would have managed on my own. Showing my ignorance can I ask what are the QSA rolls and where does one access them?  I'm guessing that SA stands for South Africa but can't think what the Q could stand for.  ???

The newspaper article says that T. W. "was with Brigadier-General Alberts on the great northern trek" it also quotes from what I presume is a South African newspaper received by Samuel Fisher [T. W's father] as follows "and states that he [T. W.] holds the record for long-distance signalling having succeeded on May 7, 1911 in receiving a signalling message for a distance of 126 miles with a five-inch helio" I'm not sure if this happened while he was still in the army but think it would seem more likely that he was.

I'll have to see what I can do about either getting to Kew myself or asking a friend who I know is going there soon to help.  

Thank you both.

Missprim

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Armed Forces / Re: Help needed researching in the Great War period & South Africa
« on: Sunday 15 March 09 21:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Scrimnet,

Thank you for your reply to my post. Although I would like to find any info there might be about Thomas William's army career I'm really very interested in what happened to him after the war.  Did he stay in South Africa or did he come back to England?  I thought I had found a marriage for him a day or so before I wrote the post on RC but when the certificate arrived it was plainly some other chap named Fisher!! So I'm back to square one :( :(

Best wishes,

Missprim


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Armed Forces / Help needed researching in the Great War period & South Africa
« on: Saturday 14 March 09 19:10 GMT (UK)  »
Thomas William Fisher was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1879 the son of Samuel Tanner Fisher and his wife Alice Ann nee Jobling.  I have recently been sent a newspaper cutting dating from 1918 which is about Thomas William and his brothers Harry and John Savile Fisher during the First World War.  According to this article Thomas William was in the 6th Dragoon Guards (the Carabiniers) where he was a signalling instructor and he served in the South African War (1899-1902).  He joined the South African Police in 1911.  At the outbreak of WWI in 1914 he applied several times to enlist and was eventually successful joining the Second Mounted Brigade of Signallers.  At the time the article was written in February 1918 he had risen to the rank of Sergeant Major.

In case anyone is wondering about the other two brothers, Harry and John S.Fisher.  My friend and I have been able to research them to some extent.  Both of them came home to England and their records survived although damaged in the WWII fire. Thomas William presents and altogether different challenge; I have not done much research in foreign parts and none at all in South Africa so any help anyone can give will be much appreciated.

Missprim

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Westmorland / Re: Kendal Parish Records to buy
« on: Tuesday 10 March 09 14:48 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Jillruss,

Sorry I should have explained things a lot better.  I normally go into the Lancashire Record Office web site from the home page which has a side column on the left hand side of the screen. Two items from the bottom of the list is "Records Search" click on this and it will open a short menu.  The first item below "Overview" is "LANCAT" (short for Lancashire Record Office On-line Catalogue).  Click on LANCAT and it will open a new screen with an oblong purple button "Begin a new search".  Click on the button and it opens a search facility.  I just simply put in the name I'm interested in (e.g.Troughton) and a list will appear several pages long.  The first items will be Marriage Bonds in the middle will be Quarter Sessions etc and the end of the list will be the Wills and Admons. 

Click on "Full Record" at the left hand side of any item and it will reveal more information.  You should be able to tell if the person named is one of "yours" but do be careful.  I thought I had found a will for my Elizabeth Fisher but when I ordered a copy it turned out to be someone else!!  Lancashire Archive seem to charge at least £5.00 per will whatever the size - one page or many - and it isn't always obvious when there is an Admon rather than a Will.

I've been doing the actions to get the explanation right.  There are 5 pages of Troughton items with 50 items to a page, although the last page may be a bit shorter than the others. So that means there are over 50 Wills/Admons listed and something over 100 Marriage Bonds.  I hope you find something interesting amongst them.  

I'm not sure if the search will work with wildcards.  I tried the advanced search when I first found the index but got in the muddle so have stuck to simple search since then using the "and" "or" commands to keep common name lists to a reasonable length; (e.g. "Troughton and Kendal") will give you all the instances of Troughton with Kendal as the place where the event took place or as the place of residence.  Don't forget to try any variant spellings it is sometimes amazing what can get thrown up from these on-line indexes.

Best wishes,

Missprim

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