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Hi I wonder if someone might be able to look up Joseph Kirby, passenger list for New York 1850, he was born 1822 in St Neots Hunts, I believe he would have travelled to New York around 1850

I have found out from his Bethlem Hospital records that he was in America at least 2 years previous to his being admitted to the hospital. Someone has given me details of a Joseph Kirby being in Brooklyn and working as a carpenter in 1850.

I am hoping this could be my chappie and that it may contain a bit more information for me to link it all together

Thanks in advance for any help given

Ros

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Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me. I am researching a soldier Robert Powell who enlisted at Gosmore the 25th March 1837 into the Grenadier Guards. From his records, Census documents and Pay and Muster books it seems he was with the 1st Batt 10 Co.....

in 1841 he is at the Tower of London and 1851 at Windsor Barracks.

It seems he was a good soldier until 1847 when he went absent for 6 days and ended up being imprisoned for 35 days at a district or provost? Prison.

He was discharged in 1852 with no pension or money for travel, he was described as being irregular but in every other way a good soldier.

I have lots of research into Roberts life after he was discharged but i have no understanding of what his life would of been like while in the Army.

- What would have been his duties, uniform
- would he have been involved in any wars between 1837-1852
- I know from later documents that Roberts had caught Syphilus ... were there any military hospitals at that time or if he was hospitalised would it have been a normal hospital.

any information given regarding the life of a grenadier guard would be brilliant or if u can point me in the right direction to finding info that would be great also.

Thanks in advance for any help given

Where to start........

I am researching my husbands family, his great grandmother was called Agnes Jane Fittis. She was born about 1860 in Bourne Lincolnshire. In 1882 she married Albert Leopold Angel at St Giles London. The marriage was quite short lived as Albert died in Farnham Surrey in 1883.

Its seems she remarried  7th July 1891 to John Bloodworth in Bourne independant chapel ......( this information came to me via Ancestry I have not seen a certificate but does match up with information i've looked up on registration)

In 1901 she is listed as Agnes Knight living in Hammersmith and again in 1911.

Agnes didn't marry Alfred Knight until 1916 (waiting for the certificate to arrive hoping this might tell me something)

She had four children by alfred and on their birth certificates she is listed as Agnes Knight late Angel formally Fittis.

So ..... I am left wondering about John Bloodworth......

1. What happened to him I don't seem to be able to locate a death .... I figured that the reason Agnes and Alfred didn't marry until 1916 was because they were waiting for him to die leaving her free to marry again or was she a bigamist?

2. If he had died wouldn't she of had to have used her legal name of Agnes Bloodworth when she remarried?

3. How easy would it have been for her to divorce John would I be able to find any evidence of this anywhere, could the marriage have been annulled ?

4.Her first child I can find was born in 1894 so thats not that long after her marriage to John so I take it the marriage didn't last too long. (this child was called Leonard Leopold Angel/Albert Knight.... after her first husband..strange)

Whats stranger is that I can find no children born to her first or second marriage yet I find a grandchild living with them in the 1911 Census called Elsie Angel (I am awaiting her birth certificate)

I have been researching this for a good few weeks now as this story I am hoping will unravel the mystery of a photograph that came from my husbands grandfathers house it was behind a picture of my father in law and his twin brother its about a2 in size and is of a proud mother and father with their son in uniform. i've had the picture dated as the early years of ww1 and on the back it has written Angel (so this couldn't have been Albert but maybe they did have a son and maybe elsie is his daughter??)

But still my interest at the moment is what happened between 1891 and 1894 with Agnes and John I know I may never find the answer but I want to give it a go and I know you guys  always seem to know where to look for this kinda stuff

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my post and i'd be very grateful for any help that you may be able to give me regarding this post.

Regards

Ros

Hi

I wonder if someone may have access to these records, could they possibly look up and see if there is a record for Albert Leopold Angel please.

I'm not sure what these records may be able to tell me but any information will be most helpful.

Thank you for your time

Ros