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Armed Forces / Re: Orkney and Shetland Defence Force
« on: Wednesday 07 June 23 00:34 BST (UK)  »
Thank you, Imber.  Yes, I have found the regiment and battery via your link, but not names of servicemen so that I can identify the Ron Douglas in my family photos.

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Armed Forces / Re: Orkney and Shetland Defence Force
« on: Wednesday 07 June 23 00:32 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for this new information.  I followed the steps that you suggested and came up with FindMyPast (where one Ronald Alexander Douglas was listed under his number) and pay to view.  Then I tried again and came up with the National Archives which had information about the Orkney unit of the RA.  No list of names.  I am sorry but I will need more help, perhaps the exact link to take me to the page with the 7 Ron Douglases listed?  I am not very competent with computers, or searching on the internet, so your help is much needed, and appreciated. :)

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Armed Forces / Re: Orkney and Shetland Defence Force
« on: Tuesday 06 June 23 15:36 BST (UK)  »
Sorry, I think that I got muddled there.  I assumed that the information that you sent to me about Ronald Alexander Douglas came from the National Archives website.  Can you please advise where you found the information about him, his service number, and army unit?  Many thanks.

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Armed Forces / Re: Orkney and Shetland Defence Force
« on: Tuesday 06 June 23 15:34 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for that information Graham.  I am interested in Orkney during the War so following this lead up might lead me to Ron Douglas.

To Steviebyday, thank you again for the information on Ron Douglas and I am sure that this is the person I am looking for, but I have just been in touch with the family of Ronald Alexander Douglas, born Camberwell, 1920, and they say that the Ronald Alexander Douglas in their family was not posted to Orkney as far as they are aware, and is not the gentleman in uniform in the photos that I posted on Ancestry.  He is wearing the uniform of the Orkney and Shetland Defence Forces.  Can you advise me where on the National Archives website information on army personnel posted to Orkney as part of the Orkney and Shetland Defence Forces can be found.  There must be another Ron Douglas who was posted there 1944-1947.  Many thanks, once again for your efforts to help me.

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Armed Forces / Re: Orkney and Shetland Defence Force
« on: Sunday 04 June 23 23:12 BST (UK)  »
Hello Steviebyday,  That's fantastic, thank you so much.  This is the first information that I have been able to find out about Ron Douglas.  I will follow it up.  Many thanks for your help, it is much appreciated.

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Armed Forces / Orkney and Shetland Defence Force
« on: Sunday 04 June 23 01:59 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to find information about Ron Douglas who was posted to the Orkney and Shetland Defence Force c1943-1948.  I believe that he might have been also posted to Kent/Sussex during the War, possibly in the Royal Artillery guarding the air force bases during the War.  I think that he had Welsh parentage.  Born c 1920.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Ellen Clayton nee Baglin
« on: Sunday 11 September 22 01:50 BST (UK)  »
Yes, I have found some very different ages for the same person with each census return or BDM certificate.  Also, I think that the head of the house usually filled out the census and their memories were not always reliable with wives and their children!  I will contact the GRO about the Marylebone death in 1893 and then I can have her death certificate.  Thank you again.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Ellen Clayton nee Baglin
« on: Sunday 11 September 22 00:37 BST (UK)  »
Thank you, Daisy, I appreciate your help. This death may just be my Ellen Clayton.  As I can't find her on the 1901 census and as the other Ellen Clayton, born Hackney, is on the 1901 census, and as Ellen lived in Marylebone in 1891 census, it seems highly likely that she died in 1893. The only fact that doesn't quite fit is that Ellen was born 1832 so would have been 60, turning 61 in 1893.  I know that ages are sometimes incorrect, and it is close.   :)

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London and Middlesex / Re: Ellen Clayton nee Baglin
« on: Saturday 10 September 22 10:52 BST (UK)  »
Yes, this is what I was concerned about.  The other Ellen, born Hackney around the same time as my Ellen Clayton was born in Bath, and the Hackney Ellen Clayton's husband was also Thomas Clayton.
Hence the confusion.  So, I still can't be sure which Ellen Clayton died in Islington in 1910.  I have often wondered whether, after her husband, Thomas died, she went to live with her family in Accrington, Lancashire.  All of her children had married and left home by mid-1890s including her grandson, Frank Charles Gibson who moved to Accrington and lived with his aunt there.  So, Ellen Clayton, if still alive would only have had her 2 daughters who lived in Accrington, and one daughter who lived in Chalcott Crescent (her house featured in scene from Paddington!).   

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