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I'm looking for information on my grandfather Leonard Alfred Tyler born 1901 (not sure where). On his marriage certificate he is listed as class 1 Warrant Officer RA which I understand to be Royal Artillery. He was married in 1942 in Gosport whilst based at Lee on solent, but his home address at the time was in Devon. I would like to know wat his role would have been and if I might find his military record. There is something in brackets on his marriage certificate which i can't read. The first word is definitely Physical then it looks like 'gulture', then a word i can't read like 'coneultum ?' would any one out there have a clue what this could be ?

Hello

I have just discovered that an ancestor who served in the Sherwood Foresters 95th Foot Regiment was in fact born in Waterford. I know very little about him and wondered if anyone could fill any gaps.  He enlisted in 1825 aged 19 and was a weaver.  I would like to know where he enlisted.  He served in the Mediterranean and Ceylon, where his son Thomas was born in 1844.  He married a girl called Mary Ann but I don't have her surname.  I would also like to know where and when they married or if they had other children.  His son Thomas later enlisted in the same regiment as his father, in Dublin in 1859.

I also wonder if there are any records of David's parents

Samantha

Ok. I'm new to rootschat and my first post is tricky.  I am desperate to make headway with my research on the Topping family.  My gt grandmother was Mary Topping born in Workington roughly 1879 to James and Ann Topping.  I have found Mary and her family in the 1881 census spelt Toppin and also 1891 census on both occasions living in king St.  To my dismay James is always absent and I can find no trace of him in any census.  Ann claims she was married in 1881 and widowed in 1891, so he must be somewhere prior to 1881.  Does anyone have any idea where to look or how to search.  Ann it would appear was born in Ireland in 1836.

I always thought James married a Mary Kane, but this is a bit supposition. Maybe Ann was Mary's second name and she went by this.  I have found a marriage on FreeBMD between a James Toppin and Mary Ann Massey Cockermouth 1871 but there is no way to know if this is them, except the names bear up!!

Lastly whilst looking for James in 1851 I found a family all born in Ireland, James born 1831 and living in Crosscanonby, Sub district Workington, so James' birth date and the place and the irish link add up.  Does anyone have any idea how i can cross reference to be sure of the link.  Irritatingly I can find none of the family prior to 1851 (they probably came to England between 1841 and 1851) but more strangely none of them after 1851.  Where could they have gone? Surely not all back to Ireland after so few years. I've tried all combinations of spelling and i'm baffled Can anyone help???

Sam