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Hiya ll
My problems starts with a family Axon.  I know that John Axon bachelor aged 17, married
Gladys Bickerdye Lindley spinster aged 17, Jan 18 1930 at St Thomas's Church Hyde, Cheshire.
 John Axon, a Labourer, living at 2 Manor Street Audenshaw – Father Henry Axon, a Moulder.
Gladys Bickerdyke Lindley, 15 Charles Street Hyde, Cheshire- Father Joseph Findley Dec's.
John and Gladys have three children, John Joyce and Harry, details all known.
That is all I have at present.  I think I have pieced together Gladys past on the Bickerdyke side, but with John Axon I have hit an absolute brick wall.  All I have is family fireside rumours and handed down tales, no concrete evidence.  Frustrating.  I can find no trace of John Axon prior to the marriage or afterwards, some maybes, nothing concrete in censuses or BDMs.
Rumours
John Axon and a brother Harry were born in Wales?  John Axon went missing Xmas day before war ended in 1944?  Friends of family heard he was on an Atlantic convoy when he joined a party which went missing, a secret mission on a convoy to Zanzibar supplying ammunition to Montgomery's war in Africa???  The family state that there are medals to be awarded?  Because it was a secret mission, one way ticket??  Obtained from  Archives, BT382CRS1..Docket Books..Record of Seamen Records BT390??
The above all sounds very dramatic though stranger things etc! I'm told I cannot access the above records on line.  Can anyone access the Archive down south as a look up?
OK - any clues as to how I proceed would be much appreciated.
The Axon family are I think loosely related to mine through an unofficial liaison on the Bickerdyke side, complicated, no payment to me is involved. Expenses no problem.
Thanks everyone for looking & reading
Gillum
 

Hi Y'all
Can anyone advise me as to the best computer software I should buy to help preserve a multitude of my fathers WW1 and WW2 photographs he took.  Many are taken with his box camera leaving small photos about 2" x 1.1/4" and smaller all B&W and Sepia.  Many others obtained from other sources during the wars, mostly WD.  I have a load of normal post war family colour photos as well.
I have a good scanner capable of up to 9600 dpi saving to file. I need the software to carry out:-
Enlargement up to A4, resolution, contrast, brightness. crop, and other basic stuff like scratch, focus etc.  Definitely no fancy stuff needed like changing backgrounds say from blue sky to a mill pond background from a library of such, changing colours in particular places, putting a face onto body etc etc. 

Has everyone noticed that the standard Ancestry is now giving an abbreviated version of Ancestry world information. Very useful as a quick kickstart.  Punch up your green leaf hints and you get some World info, or at least I did.  You could also use the free access in your local county centre Archives.
Gillum

A look up please, for Tom Beaumont born Lockwood, Nr Huddersfield, Yorkshire abt 1878. Father John Beaumont, Mother Mary Jane Gibson.  I can find no birth, marriage for him,  or baptisms of children.  Except one hit in 1911, wife Hannah Elizabeth and children Lily and Lizzie, Married 10 yrs, 3 child'n 2 alive 1 died. At least I think this is my Tom Beaumont? No Parish records before that date? Any help appreciated.

Hi
My first post relates to some family fire side chat regarding an Eastwood family member of mine, a Whisk Manufacturer of Netherthong.  It was claimed a baby was found by the Eastwoods floating down the Holme, in the flood waters, in a chest of drawers.  The baby was saved and then adopted or taken in, any of the baby's family having perished in the flood. There are reasons I could go into to suggest the veracity of the tale?  My query is - was there a list of all the unclaimed, families unknown, infants unable to speak for themselves registered with the authorities and perhaps put up for adoption etc?  I can find no evidence that the Eastwood baby was ever legally adopted - or was the whole valley in turmoil and people simply acted altruistically?
Regards to all
Gillum