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Europe / Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
« on: Monday 27 August 12 08:40 BST (UK)  »
Looks like yesterday was the last free day  :-[ However there was a Sandmann (no christian name given) who arrived in London on 7th Feb 1839, born in Germany but arrived from Rotterdam on the Attwood. Maybe he's your man?

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Europe / Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
« on: Monday 27 August 12 08:32 BST (UK)  »
Alien arrivals are free on Ancestry right now! I finally found the arrival of my german ancestor yesterday!

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Census for soldiers serving abroad
« on: Sunday 26 August 12 18:19 BST (UK)  »
Woohoo! I've got the old search back! Thanks!

Plus now I think I've found our chap in 1911!

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Census for soldiers serving abroad
« on: Sunday 26 August 12 10:00 BST (UK)  »
I can't see anything that lets me go to the old search :-( the bit in your screenshot isn't there on mine, maybe it's because I'm using PAYG at the moment?

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Census for soldiers serving abroad
« on: Sunday 26 August 12 09:36 BST (UK)  »
I'll try ancestry again. It's been a few years since I last used it and I find the 'new' layout and search difficult to use... I always hated the ranked results and don't seem to be able to find what I want anymore!

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Census for soldiers serving abroad
« on: Sunday 26 August 12 09:05 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, how would I go about finding the 1911 army census? I've had a go with the 'official' 1911 census but all the people that show up are in the wrong regiment and listed as single when our man was married  :-[

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Census and Resource Discussion / Census for soldiers serving abroad
« on: Sunday 26 August 12 08:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I've been helping a friend with his tree and we've been unable to find his Great great grandfather in the 1901 or 1911 censuses (censi?). It appears that he was serving with the 2nd batt. Irish Fusiliers abroad (India) for both these censuses according to the movements of the battalion. Were army personel stationed abroad covered by censuses? We have no idea where he was born though we believe it was around 1881 as he was killed in 1917 aged 36. His name was Charles Alexander Burleigh Robson.

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Armed Forces / Army births abroad
« on: Thursday 23 August 12 19:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I've just started helping a friend with his family tree and have a problem already! We are unable to find any birth records of his great grandfather, Charles Alexander Burleigh Robson b abt 1882. All the information we have of him is from his son's death records from WW2.

 Major Charles Alexander ROBSON, given as aged 29 and born in India on his
death cert. (KIA in Italy in 1944).
 Father, 2nd Lieutenant Charles Alexander Burleigh ROBSON (known as
Charles), 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers stationed in India after the
Boer war until leaving for France in December 1914. Died of wounds 8th November
1917.
Charles Alexander Burleigh Robson seems to have been a career army man which makes me wonder if his father (mentioned in his WW1 death records as Charles Burleigh Robson of Newcastle) had also been in the Services and they were also born abroad...

Can anyone suggest a route to follow? It doesn't help having so many people with the same name!! I have also posted on the general board just in case!

Any help finding these mens' births would be much appreciated!

Jo

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England / Help with birth - Charles Alexander Burleigh Robson
« on: Thursday 23 August 12 19:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I've just started helping a friend with his family tree and have a problem already! We are unable to find any birth records of his great grandfather, Charles Alexander Burleigh Robson b abt 1882. All the information we have of him is from his son's death records from WW2.

 Major Charles Alexander ROBSON, given as aged 29 and born in India on his
death cert. (KIA in Italy in 1944).
 Father, 2nd Lieutenant Charles Alexander Burleigh ROBSON (known as
Charles), 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers stationed in India after the
Boer war until leaving for France in December 1914. Died of wounds 8th November
1917.
Charles Alexander Burleigh Robson seems to have been a career army man which makes me wonder if his father (mentioned in his WW1 death records as Charles Burleigh Robson of Newcastle) had also been in the Services and they were also born abroad...

Can anyone suggest a route to follow? It doesn't help having so many people with the same name!! I have also posted on the Armed forces board just in case!

Any help finding these mens' births would be much appreciated!

Jo

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