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World War Two / RAF Batman in Dorset
« on: Saturday 28 May 11 22:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi

My grandfather, Cyril Way, was apparently a batman in WWII.  Could anyone tell me what his duties might have been?  I was also told he was a medic and that he used to deliver prosthetic limbs and dispose of the original.  I have applied for his service records, but was wondering whether anyone has any information to add to that.

Kind Regards

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Travelling People / Re: Hugh UXLEY help needed
« on: Sunday 14 November 10 17:44 GMT (UK)  »
The aunt who registered the birth of Mary Rebecca Uxley was Louisa Humphreys.  She was married to a Hugh Boswell Humphreys.  In the 1911 census he is listed as a butcher, but Boswell is a name I've come across before regarding travelling families.  Might there be a link here?  It could just be all coinicdental.  grasping at straws.

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Travelling People / Re: Hugh UXLEY help needed
« on: Saturday 13 November 10 19:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Yes, I think there was some fudging on the birth certificate.  The birth was registered by her sister (the "aunt"), Louisa Humphreys, nee Waylett.  It looks as though they have tried to cover up the illegitimacy so it may be that I will never find out the true mother or father.  I wonder why she would have taken in someone else's child?  I feel like I wish I had known her to ask.  And if the father really was a travelling showman, I wonder what he did exactly.  Could have been anything from lion tamer to selling candyfloss!

thanks for the other information.  We have info on Mille, whom I met, but not that there was another child.

Regards

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Travelling People / Re: Hugh UXLEY help needed
« on: Saturday 13 November 10 08:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

We don't think he was married to my gt grandmother because we can find no record of a marriage.  My grandmother certainly had no idea who he was and was told that her mother (on the birth certificate) was her adopted mother and not her biological mother.  The mother's maiden name was Alice Waylett, though she was on the birth certificate as Alice Uxley (nee Waylett).  She had been married previously to a William Harmer who died in the first World War.  It looks as though there was an unofficial adoption, though why that should be we have no idea.  Perhaps my gran was actually daughter to someone else in the family?  It's all a bit of a puzzle.

Thanks

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Travelling People / Hugh UXLEY help needed
« on: Friday 12 November 10 20:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Hugh Uxley is listed on my grandmother's birth certificate as her father with the occupation of travelling showman.  I have searched all the records I can think of, but still cannot find any trace of him.  He would have been in the Poole area of Dorset in 1922/23.  If anyone has any information on him, I'd be extremely grateful.

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