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I’m hoping for some help deciphering the additional text on this burial entry; it’s from St Martin-in-the-Field, Westminster, 1771. I did wonder if I should have posted on the deciphering handwriting board, but it's not so much that I can't read it as I don't understand it. I'm hoping someone might be familiar with these parish registers.

The first line isn't a problem: Ann Fisher from St Ann’s Soho was buried in a vault next to the chancel which was, presumably, near to or under a ‘great bell’. But, can anyone shed any light on the second line, please?

She was an elderly lady, btw, a widow, in case that helps to make sense of things.

Thanks for any help.

Hi,

Would anyone be able to check out a baptism for me please?   I'm particularly interested in any additional info for abode and occupation to try to confirm this is the person I'm looking for.

It's a baptism I've found on the IGI.

Skeffington - 14 Jul 1799 - Sophiah d/o Wm and Eleanor Bailiff

Thank you.

Would anyone be able to check for a baptism for me please?

I'm looking for an Elizabeth Parry, and from other information I have I believe she was born 23 May 1786 in Abergavenny.

Her father may be William Parry.

I’m looking for a bit of help, please?

My Grandad Sydney Kirk signed up to the 53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion on the 14th May 1918, enlisted 27th May and was transferred to the 52nd (Grad) Battalion on the 18th June that year.

His WWI service records are online, where he’s indexed as Sidney Kirk, and he left the army in November 1919.

I’ve got a couple of questions, if anyone could help.  Firstly, (as my Dad wasn’t even aware of this), would anyone know where he would have served/been posted, and if he saw any action?

Secondly, there was a family legend that he signed up before he was 18, and possibly even managed to get as far as France before he was found out and shipped home.  I have no idea if there is any truth in that.  When he signed up in May 1918 he was three days past his 18th birthday, and he’s stated on his forms that he had never been in the armed service before.  I can see him trying to join up when he was underage, but would it have been likely that he’d have managed to, and would there be any records that might verify/disprove this?  It seems odd to me that there is this story of him signing up underage, but nobody knew that he’d served 18 months in the army.

I've got my Dad wanting to know more about this now, and don't know where I am with researching military history, so any help at all would be much appreciated.

Jo.