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Armed Forces / Re: Another Seaforth Highlanders Query?
« on: Wednesday 04 October 17 15:17 BST (UK)  »
Hello Carolyn25

I am sorry I hadn't seen your message, welcome to Rootschat, it is great to meet another of James's offspring  :)  Which of his offspring are you descended from?  It is a fascinating family.....

Daff

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Armed Forces / Re: Another Seaforth Highlanders Query?
« on: Tuesday 22 July 14 12:13 BST (UK)  »
I think you have to have made 5 posts before you can PM people, I have sent you another message  :)

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Armed Forces / Re: Another Seaforth Highlanders Query?
« on: Tuesday 22 July 14 06:42 BST (UK)  »
Hi AlexanderB

I will send you a private message, I too know James wrote his own obituary.  I have a fair bit of information on him I can share with you.  :)

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Lancashire / Re: Reece's Cafe/Restaurant/Bakers/Dairy
« on: Friday 25 February 11 00:07 GMT (UK)  »
I remember well the Reece's bakery in Moreton, on Pasture Rd near the Cross, they sold lovely cakes, fresh cream if you were lucky!  They also had big tins of biscuits where you could buy them loose, pick and mix style.

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Armed Forces Resources / Re: gwr men killed in ww1
« on: Thursday 25 February 10 10:31 GMT (UK)  »
Brillliant, I shall have a good look, thank you  :)

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The Common Room / Re: Multiple entries in GRO Deaths Index?
« on: Saturday 13 February 10 11:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I have a relation with a recent death who had been married three times and she appears under each name too, I wonder if they do it for people with multiple names, I am intrigued too.

Daff

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Drowning 1930s in local paper?
« on: Saturday 30 January 10 09:02 GMT (UK)  »
I have PM'd you.

Thanks,

Daff

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Drowning 1930s in local paper?
« on: Friday 29 January 10 14:05 GMT (UK)  »
Sandra, thank you so much, but please do so it only if you have time, I shall feel so guilty now if you don't find anything and have a wasted journey.   :-[   

I will send for his wife's death certificate too as that will confirm he had died before 1948 - I hadn't thought of doing that before, would have made sense really! 

The story I have heard is that he was drunk when he fell into the harbour, which might have made it in to the paper, although if it was during the war there will have been more important news.  I have no idea which harbour or even which channel island it was, so not much to go on.

Thanks for all your help,

Daff

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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Drowning 1930s in local paper?
« on: Thursday 28 January 10 16:35 GMT (UK)  »
Sandra that would be wonderful, thank you!!

The lady I was speaking to remembers his brother having to travel to go and identify his body.  She would have been quite young then herself.  The only other information I have is that he was born in 1886, and his wife died in Grimsby in 1948.  Presumably she wasn't with him when he died or she could have identified him.

It would be brilliant if you could find anything, thank you for taking the trouble. :)

Daff

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