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Messages - terrymo

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Mary Jane Ferris
« on: Saturday 05 January 19 17:39 GMT (UK)  »
I've just found this post and I have Waterfield and Ferris in my Tree.  My mother was a Waterfield and her father was born in Tavistock. They ended up living in Millbrook which is near Maker.

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Devon / Re: Is St. Budeaux, Devonport a cemetery?
« on: Saturday 05 January 19 17:36 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, St Budeaux Church has a cemetery.

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Armed Forces / Re: Churchill's Secret Army
« on: Monday 04 June 18 13:39 BST (UK)  »
I have emailed a copy of the scroll to Coleshill in the hope they might know why they were issued.   My gut feeling as that as they were on suicide missions and perhaps didn't come back when expected,were presumed dead.  Imagine their poor mother, hearing first that her two sons had died, and then they come back from the dead!

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Armed Forces / Re: Churchill's Secret Army
« on: Sunday 03 June 18 19:03 BST (UK)  »
The scroll is definitely for Archibald Barrett as it was the right regiment at the bottom, with his enlisting date. His brother Charles  A  Barrett also had a  similar scroll. There is a lot of information about the Secret Army and they disbanded  in 1944 with many so highly trained they went on to join SBS and SAS.
It is possible the scrolls were issued as cover for them.   They weren't expected to survive once they came out into the open.  They were on suicide missions.  The Forces War Records website holds their service records  and the person who brought the scrolls into me at Saltash Heritage Centre is going to subscribe so that she can access them.  I don't think they will tell her very much, but it's worth a look.

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Armed Forces / Churchill's Secret Army
« on: Sunday 03 June 18 11:26 BST (UK)  »
Good morning
I'm trying to discover why the attached scroll was issued to Archibald Barrett and also his brother Charles A Barrett. They imply they died in service when they actually survived and lived well into old age, with one not dying until 1999.   The brothers joined the Cornwall Branch of the Home Guard Auxiliary and were recruited into Churchill's Secret Army.   There is plenty of information on the internet about this Secret unit but I'm more interested in why a scroll like this would be given, when the men were very much alive.  Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

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Cornwall / Re: Burials in Maker/Rame area
« on: Thursday 29 March 18 11:34 BST (UK)  »
Parish records for St Stephens, Saltash have been transcribed by Saltash Heritage but they are not on the internet because we would lose donations which we rely on to keep the centre open.  However. I am more than happy to do any look ups and the index is searchable by name. Please email me at
archivist@saltash-heritage.org.uk and I will see what we have.
Mo

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Cornwall Lookup Requests / Re: Marriage look-up request
« on: Saturday 23 December 17 11:40 GMT (UK)  »
Since your request for information on Wilmot Nepean  something rather exciting happened.  Saltash Heritage were given almost 200 documents regarding the Nepean family going back to the late 1700s.  There are family trees, personal letters and other documents - they were a family who thought they should be of a higher class than they were.  A different female Wilmot Nepean was baptised in 1567 - if my memory serves me right - under the surname Nanpian The names were carried down through the family so I suspect your Wilmot was related to these Nepean. 
Myself and other volunteers have been transcribing the documents as they are a fascinating insight into Victorian life and they are now all typed ready for sorting chronologically.
If you would like more information on the Nepean family please contact me via Saltash  Heritage.
archivist@saltash-heritage.org
Mo

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Cornwall Lookup Requests / Re: Lookup in Cornwall Record Office please?
« on: Saturday 08 October 16 17:27 BST (UK)  »
If you email the record office I'm sure they will give you a quote to copy the documents and email them to you.

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Cornwall / Re: Rebecca Blanche WAYE Liskeard Inquest
« on: Tuesday 06 September 16 17:10 BST (UK)  »
The Cornish Times back copies are held at Liskeard  Library on microfilm. You could email them and see if someone would do a lookup for  you.   they are also available at Stuart House in Liskeard, so they might be worth contacting.  The other local paper is Western Morning News which is held on film at Plymouth Central Library,  so it is worth contacting them as well.

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