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Hi Everyone,

I've been looking at an entry on the 1939 Register. I'm aware that it was updated later and used by the NHS so some of the information may have been added later. I've googled this but not come up with much.

I'm looking at a particular entry in which the annotation 'M/NUR' is written beside the name of Florance (sic) Gertrude Paton. The surname Paton (written in a different ink to the original register) is crossed out and 'JOYCE' is written - both in the same ink as the 'M/NUR' with the date '19.6.73' also written in that ink. I've cross-referenced with the death registration records and there was a Florence Gertrude JOYCE whose death was registered in 1973 Jun qtr and born in 1890 (same year as on the register though different day of the month). My feeling is that the 1973 date refers to her death and the crossed out name shows she may have remarried after the death of Mr Paton in 1940 or changed her name for another reason. I've not found a Paton-Joyce marriage or a Joyce-Paton marriage that would fit.

Anyway, has anyone come across 'M/NUR' as an abbreviation before and knows what it refers to?

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for help restoring a photograph of a Boer War soldier. Unfortunately it's small format and a photograph of a page in a book rather than a scan (it was in the reference section of the library and there weren't any scanners available). If anyone can make anything of it, this would be wonderful.

I'm also curious if anyone can interpret the uniform for me.

I will post an attachment in a reply as the forum won't let me post one here.

Many thanks
- Lu

Hello All,

Looking for info on a distant cousin who immigrated from England to the US in 1913. So far I know the following:

- Arthur Whittall Sear was born on 29 Jul 1888 in Luton, Bedfordshire.
- He passed through Ellis Island on 21 May 1913.
- He married Elizabeth Georgina Burgess on 3 Jul 1916 in Detroit, Michigan.
- I have his WW1 Draft Registration Card from June 1917.
- He married Anna Pearl Fox Thompson on 24 Oct 1925 in Detroit, Michigan.

Would love to see how far down the line of descendents I can get, but I'm not sure where to look now.

Thanks,
- Lucia

Hello Everyone,

Despite having spent several years researching my family history, I have only just begun to think about finding out more about my grandfather's time in the services. My mother remembers him mentioning Morse code. His marriage certificate states his occupation as "serving on fleet air arm of Royal Navy". The family believe that he spent some time around Egypt and/or Palestine. My Scottish grandmother was a WREN and they met at Invergordon.

After my grandmother moved into a home, we found a copy of his military records amongst his effects. My problem is that I can't decipher the abbreviations in the document. I wondered too if anyone here could advise me on how I can use his service records as a basis for further research.

At the top of the document under "Port Division", there is written 'fleet air arm' which has been crossed out with 'Lee-on-Solent' written above. The "Official Number" is filled in with 'Later JX 182698' which has been crossed out with 'F. X. 79491' written above. Under medals the text is 'CDQS 283/3' and 'Westminster 283.232'.

The next page has a list of ships including:- St Vincent, Kestrel, Daedalus, Furious, Landrail, Victorious, Ark Royal, Heron, Buzzard, Cormorant, Illustrious, Grebe and Royal Arthur. I can't read all of the names. After some of the names there are numbers: 810, 825 and 928, which I assume are the names of Fleet Air Arm squadrons.

- Lucia