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My father was conscripted into the RAMC in 1940 and served throughout WW2 as a nursing orderly. I have now found out that in 1946 he went to Sierra Leone as part of the Royal West African Frontier Force. I cannot find out very much about this. I am wondering whether my father would have been sent, or whether he would have volunteered for this as it was after the end of hostilities.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

This is a long shot, but during WW2 my mother worked with a Polish woman she called Evelyn and this is phonetic, Las-chover with the accent on the final syllable.

I have been toying with some time and think she may well have anglisiced her first name from Ewelina and that her last name may be either Laszczowa or Łaszczowa, but I don't know whether either of those would work as a surname.

Either way, I think she probably went to the US after the war, but I cannot find any trace of her.

Thanks

Joseph Goadby, shoe rivetter, died on the 10 September 1877 at 2 Denmark Street, Leicester, but what did he die of and who was the informant?

All help gratefully received. Thank you

DNA shows very clearly that I am connected to this family.  The oldest known member appears to be Matthew Beckwith, born in Pontefract about 1610 and arriving in the Colonies in the  1630s.

The only Beckwith ancestor I am aware of is my 4 x great grandmother Elizabeth Beckwith born in Madras, as it was then, about 1803.

Are there any Beckwith researchers on here who might be able to help me connect the two?

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Charles Reginald Rowbotham was born in Leicester in November 1917 (71 310), is in Leicester in 1939, married Winifred Evelyn Phillips (1920-2016) there in May 1940 (71 763) and died there in 1993 (F47C 6001F 146). 

Those are definite facts.  It’s also a fairly distinctive name.  I can’t find another one. He was always known as ‘Reg’.

In 1949 he appears on the electoral roll at 78 Balwyn Road, Melbourne, Australia and also at 38 Hillhead Street, Glasgow.  The Australian one is definitely him because the passenger lists show him and his wife leaving for Australia on the Stratheden on 3 February 1949.  The address on the passenger list is his mother in law’s in Leicester, so Glasgow at that point was a bit of a surprise, as I was not aware that he had actually lived there at that point, although I knew he and his wife had lived in Renfrew for maybe a year or eighteen months in the early 50s.

That’s the last definite sighting I have of him on Ancestry until his death in 1993.

However, there is also an entry on the electoral roll for 43 Marywood Square, Pollock, Glasgow in 1955 for Reginald and Jessie Rowbotham and I would like, if possible, to establish whether this is also him, especially as this address is only 15 minutes away from Hillhead Street.   

I’ve tried to go through the records in a methodical way, but I can’t see a birth for a Reginald Rowbotham or a marriage for this couple in Scotland or a death for Reginald Rowbotham in Scotland. I also can’t find a birth in Scotland at the relevant time, so I’m not expecting this man to be Scottish. 

There is a death in 2013 for a Jessie Simpson Rowbotham (MMN McIntosh) aged 89 in Kirkcaldy, but she appears to have been the wife of the late William Downie Rowbotham, so that looks like a dead end.   

I also cannot find a marriage in England between a Reginald Rowbotham and a Jessie or anything that looks like it could be a name shortened to Jessie.  There are deaths in England for both people named Reginald and Jessie Rowbotham after 1949, but I can’t make any of them fit together so far.