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I'm looking at the record of a chap who joined the Royal Artillery in 1929 and was discharged less than three weeks later. The reason code for his discharge was para 370 (vii) King's Regulations.

I've looked at the 1908 edition of the King's Regulations, which is available online, but this is too early. I need to look at the 1928 edition, but this not online. This is a very long shot in case anyone might have access to the 1928 edition. From another post here:

Para 370 of KR 1928 became Para 383 in KR 1935 and it's likely that (vi a) stayed much the same:

 
it's been suggested that para 370 in the 1928 KR became para 383 in the 1935 edition ... and this IS online. Following this through it would appear my chap left at his own request. If anyone can confirm (or correct) my thought processes I'd be most grateful.

I'm trying to find out which denomination the Church of the Good Shepherd in Huddersfield was, and in particular whether it was Roman Catholic. I have a letter dated June 1921 from a G. Butterworth who was the 'missioner in charge' at the aforementioned church, providing a character reference for my grandfather. The address on the letter was Ladbroke House, North Rise, Fartown, Huddersfield. Later in 1921 my grandfather left Huddersfield and joined the Royal Air Force.

Over the years I've picked up various hints that some ancestors on this side of my family might have been Catholics, and I'm hoping this letter might help provide some evidence one way or the other. My guess is the church no longer exists - basic searching on the internet didn't provide anything very helpful.

If, like me, you’re stuck with Ancestry matches and a lack of people uploading to other sites with chromosome browsers, you may be interested in this new website: https://www.geneticaffairs.com/

It’s free to register; you upload your data and it runs a cross-tabulation of all your matches (within defined parameters either of closeness of relationship, or a cM range). The clever bit is that it reorganises the massive chart into clusters where several matches all match each other.  This doesn’t PROVE they’re all on the family line, but it does help to narrow things down and focus your research.

There’s a helpful blog post here: https://dna-explained.com/2018/12/04/autoclustering-by-genetic-affairs/

The first few runs are free and then you can either pay for ad hoc updates or regular ones.  As I have just my own data and new matches are only trickling in I’ll probably re-run it every couple of months.

Janey

A couple of weeks ago I discovered a whole family gathering of ancestors in a beautiful Devon churchyard.  Many of the gravestones were surprisingly easy to read and transcribe.  However, with a grumpy child anxious to get back into the car and continue to our final destination, I didn't get time to transcribe them all properly so I had to rely on photos for the last couple.  The one here appears to read "Samuel Scoble" but I can't make out any dates.  I therefore wondered if someone here could do something clever with Photoshop or similar and make the image easier to read. 

In terms of my Scoble family tree 'Samuel' was a favourite first name, and I have nine of them.  I've already identified the gravestone of my 5x great-grandfather, Samuel Scoble 1724-1786 in the same churchyard.  Other possibilities are my 6x great-grandfather Samuel, who could have died c.1725-50.  However, there's no burial entry in this village for someone of this era on FindMyPast, which holds the Devon parish records.  Another possibility is my 4x great-grandfather Samuel, 1761-1832, who I know from FindMyPast is buried in this churchyard.  Both the 4x and 6x had a wife named Mary!  There are two other Samuels, one born 1821 and one born 1859 in the same village.  The rest are either more recent and/or lived elsewhere.

If it helps, I can email a high-res version to someone if they would like to send me their address via PM.

Many thanks in advance, Janey

I am hoping to find someone who might have access to Wiltshire marriage records, as I know they are not online and only available either at the local record office or on CD-ROM.

My 4G grandmother was Martha BRACHER (1783-1864) and I've found a marriage licence bond on Findmypast in respect of her and a John Everett dated 25 January 1805. (Record set Sarum Marriage Licence Bonds.)  Both are residents of Tisbury and spinster/batchelor respectively.

The reason I am querying whether the marriage took place is that (a) on the baptism register entry for her daughter Narcissa (my 3G grandmother) in December 1806 there is no father listed, and (b) in the 1841, 1851 and 1861 Censuses I find her as Bracher with year of birth matching. 

Any assistance would be gratefully received!