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Hi,
I'm looking for Ralph Edward Buckingham. The information I have:

Private Ralph Edward Buckingham K99675 transferred from no 10 Company to no 4 Company Canadian Forestry Corps. No 4 Company embarked at Halifax Canada 5th April 1941 and disembarked at Gourock 20th April 1941. They were at Dinnett by 23rd April 1941.
Ralph married Helen Jane Cattanach Aboyne, Aberdeenshire 1942 and two boys were born 1942 and early 1946.
The Canadian Forestry Corps ceased operations in Scotland 20th March 1945.
Ralph would have returned to Canada with his Company. The wives of the men went to Canada separately.
18th Sept 1946 Helen J Buckingham and children – Allen R aged 4y 1m and Leonard age 10m who had been living at Balnault Hut, Crathie departed Southampton on board the Aquitana for Halifax Canada.  Address in Canada – Mr R.E. Buckingham, 81, Augusta Ave., Toronto.
10th March 1953 Helen Buckingham age 33, Allan age 10 and Leonard age 7 arrived in Southampton on board the Ascania from Halifax. Address in Scotland - Balnault Hut, Crathie. No sign of Ralph having come to Britain again.
I'm presuming Ralph died sometime between 1946 and 1953 as helen Jane remarried in Scotland 1958. Any help in confirming this would be appreciated.
Jo

Hi,
Looking for any info for a friend of mine on the following Farrell family:

1911 census at Kilmichael, Kilgorman, Wexford
Farrell   William   31   Farmer
Farrell   Sarah   35   
Farrell   Kate           6   
Farrell   Jas           4   
Farrell   Mary Ellen  2   
Farrell   William   4 months

She's looking for a Mary Farrell who gave her address as Kilmichael Arklow Wicklow in 1933.  As Kilmichael is on the border of Wexford and Wicklow, there's a possibility that the family above could be the right one.
Without visiting Ireland to check the electoral rolls, any suggestions of where to look would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jo

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George Thomas Haines was my grandmother's cousin.  He was A./Lt. Col. in the Royal Marines before retiring from the force in 1947 www.unithistories.com/officers/RM_officersH.html#Haines_GT
My grandmother always said that he had gone to New Zealand, with his wife Mary and had become a sheep farmer.  She thought he had two children, Sarah and Thomas.

According to www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/  George Thomas Haines died in 1997 and had a birthdate of 28 December 1911.  This ties in with my grandmother's birthday book which has Thomas Haines on December 28.  (Fairly certain that George used his middle name more following his father's, Thomas George Haines, death in 1917 in the war.)

Someone found for me the following crematorium record:

Forename(s): George Thomas
Age: 85 Years
Gender: Male
Date of death: 17 Jan 1997
Date of cremation: 21 Jan 1997
Funeral director: Mark Rowley Funeral Services
16 - 18 Anne Street, Devonport, North Shore City 0624
Ashes status: Returned to Family 28 Jan 1997

In the bdmhistorical records I also found Mary Christina Haines  death in 2004 with a birthdate of 4 Nov 1913. I'm fairly sure that this was george's wife  and that her maiden name was Guise.   There was a marriage of George Thomas Haines and Mary C Guise in Portsmouth area 1934 where the Haines family lived.  Sarah C Haines was born 1939 in the Portsmouth area with a mother whose maiden name was Guise.

If Mary C Guise was George Thomas Haines's wife then I think she was born in New Zealand and travelled to England with her mother also Mary C Guise from New Zealand first in 1930 c/o High Commission for New Zealand, returning to New Zealand January 1931 and then back to Southampton Nov 1931 heading to Portsmouth.

I think Mary Christina Haines with daughter Sarah C age 7  and Andrew age 3 (who I can't find a birth record for yet) travelled to New Zealand on the Rangitiki leaving London 10 May 1947. George T Haines followed on the Rangitata leaving London 2 Jan 1948.

It would be unusual for the wife and children to go first but if she was born in New Zealand then she had family to go to whilst George tidied up affairs in England.

My son is currently in Auckland for a few months as he travels the world.  It would be great to track down the descendants of George Thomas Haines.

Any suggestions of where to look next would be appreciated.
Thankyou
Jo

Amongst old family papers I have a certificate awarding first prize to Charles Tolhurst for Bass Solo, Class 59 at the Hastings Musical Festival 8 March 1932. The adjudicator was Marcus Thomson F.R.A..M. with John Lockey as Hon. Sec.
I also have a copy of a book entitled "A Wandering Minstrel 1" "Vagrom Sketches by CASEY" price 1 shilling published by the National Labour Press, in which Charles Tolhurst wrote his name.

I don't have a Charles in the family despite having followed the families of the 12 siblings listed in the family bible born between 1797 and 1819 in Ore Hastings down through the generations.

My great grandfather Henry Tolhurst was musical: at times teaching, playing the organ and in a band.  My grandfather Algernon Henry was also musical, performing in amateur operatics. The family were in Westfield in the early 1900s.

I feel sure that somehow there must be a connection between this Charles and my family but have drawn a complete blank as to how.
Any ideas welcomed.
Jo