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Armed Forces / Re: Joined RAF (band?) in 1925 - What Age?
« on: Saturday 19 January 19 17:11 GMT (UK)  »
Do you not have enough detail to send for his service record?  As it is post WW1 Forces War Records may have something but it won't be his service record.

MaxD
It's £30 ..... I'd rather not.  I'm not blood-related, just curious.
One day I will ... maybe 10 years' time ....

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Armed Forces / Re: Joined RAF (band?) in 1925 - What Age?
« on: Saturday 19 January 19 16:29 GMT (UK)  »
Cheers.

To expand, matching name/service number, I have a marriage certificate in 1952 saying he's 33, so I thought he'd be born 1918/1919... and now I've spotted a record (not seen it yet/Forces War Records site) with the date of 1925, so now I'm thinking "He lied about his age when he married!", so trying to guess a different year of birth at the moment :)

15 in 1925 is closer to YoB 1910, which would mean a bride of 27 thinking she was marrying a 33 year old chap was actually getting hitched to somebody aged about 42.  This is a "new to me today" new thought and unexpected twist.

The "age a lad could be" would be giving me a guess at his possible YoB. 

Leading on from that ... if I do discover an earlier YoB than expected... it opens up a  whole new possibility that he might've even had a "first wife".... all new thoughts added today....

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Armed Forces / Joined RAF (band?) in 1925 - What Age?
« on: Saturday 19 January 19 16:14 GMT (UK)  »
No long dialogue, simple questions.

If you were a little boy, wanting to be a musician and joining the RAF in 1925 to be in their band what is the youngest age you could be?  What would be the most likely age you could be? 8, 10, 12, 14, 16?

I won't go into the detail/background :)
Nobody reads long posts do they :)


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Cornwall / Re: James W Ladner Ruan Minor
« on: Wednesday 03 October 18 23:48 BST (UK)  »
If you have the 1939 Register original in front of you, plus/minus a couple of pages, you should be able to see something there that gives you a clue as to where the cottage was, on the basis that the written Register was "in house/road order".  e.g. maybe he's listed 6 doors down from a pub, or between an address that's identifiable and another fixed point.

If you have all the addresses written down in front of you (the Register) ... something might make sense.

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The Lighter Side / Re: WDYTYA - Johnnie Peacock
« on: Tuesday 21 August 18 16:33 BST (UK)  »
I was waiting for somebody on Rootschat to start it - as it's "her family", who she's been researching years; they got in contact with her to ask what she had.  Gillg is the username I expected to start a thread.

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The Lighter Side / Re: WDYTYA - tiny gripe
« on: Tuesday 21 August 18 16:31 BST (UK)  »


Could it have been last night's episode, since there was mention of a Feary from Huntingdonshire?
It was.
Gillg was after Thomasina of Warboys - Thomasina was the first-born illegitimate child of Elizabeth, who was the mother of the Louise Voss in last night's episode.  Elizabeth had her child, then married Richard.  Elizabeth & Richard had a few children, one of whom was the Louise, the main focus of last night's episode.

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The Common Room / Re: Concealing the birth of a child
« on: Tuesday 21 August 18 08:59 BST (UK)  »
Abortion is a different offence, so the fact she's been convicted of concealment would indicate it wasn't an abortion, imho.


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The Lighter Side / Re: Did our ancestors know their ancestry?
« on: Monday 20 August 18 01:55 BST (UK)  »
Over the years my mum'd often say to me "we're related to him" when I mentioned names of people.... e.g. I had a temp job at the Hospital and said I'd gone to "XYZs shop" and she said "we're related to him"... whenever I asked "how?" she'd always say "dunno".

She also called everybody her "cousin".

There were also other snippets/stories without names. e.g. when somebody in her family died by just dropping dead as a kid while fishing alone at a riverbank, she said "funny that, my cousin did that years ago and died too"....

All these "dunno" "cousin" and nameless stories.... I've eventually managed to piece them all together and know who everybody was and how they were related. 

She never mentioned the beauty queen though .... knowing my mum she'd have probably said "I didn't like her...." :)  so wasn't worthy of a mention.

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Annie Amelia Scarr
« on: Monday 06 August 18 18:32 BST (UK)  »
There's one born in 1864

Annie Amelia Scarr, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XM4-GZX
GRO has it missing, so must be a typo in their index somewhere.
Camdex tells me it was in St Andrew the Less Cambridge.

I'd fiddle around a bit more with the GRO to try to force information out of it as it's clearly registered and present both on FS and Camdex.

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