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Many thanks,   Agreed the battery. for coastal protection would be vital.
Will take a further search and  let you know.
Jean M

   
 

Morning searchers,

Seek a helping hand to confirm my grandfather’s military service.
Born August 1877 Tenterden, Kent
 Had married and suggest his enlistment therefore after June 1916.
Survived the conflict and is listed in Census 1921 Silvertown, London E.
Few clues except Sheringham, Norfolk for duties or period of
convalescence.
Replies most welcome
Jean M

For bobfilm,
Hello Bob.

Pleased to hear from you.  And if I may, do your ancestors or the locations
have a significant link to my families???   Do please say?

Briefly,  My maternal Great Grandparents

Frederick HADLOW 4 April 1851 - 22 August 1923 b. Reigate.  Died St Georges Cottages, Harpenden.
Studio Photographer
and often away from home, particularly the popular seaside holiday locations.

His Parents George and Sarah HADLOW, Boughton under Blean, Kent later Reigate.

Marriage 29 May 1874 at Stockton Register Office = Ada LANCASTER b. Southampton
 27 December 1855 - 24  February 1917 Keighley, West Yorkshire
 
Her father Edward LANCASTER 1823-1883 Artist/Studio photographer mainly
Grosvenor Street, Chester and Birkenhead, Liverpool.  But also itinerant in Oxford, London

Over a few years I have worked together with with Marjorie and Emrys Williams, they had
published a two-part history of the LANCASTER's in Chester.  They both became much involved
in the meetings and archives connected with Historical Section,  Royal Photographic Society, London.

The LANCVASTER family of eight had been 'hands on'  in the earliest steps into the art of portrait photography. The significant descendants were at the forefront when they had emigrated first to Sydney, NSW and later to Perth, Western Australia

The legitimate daughters....(1) Ada Lily 29 March 1875 Co. Durham (my grandmother)
and (2) Kate (Kitty) 23 October 1876.172 Great Titchfield Street, Soho, London W

Family breakup

At first anor no clear reason. by 1876/1877. Fred and Ada had separated.
Looking deeper I must presume with the introduction of  Kate Anne LADELL
made the deep rift.

 At this point Ada (LANCASTER) HADLOW chose to abandon her children.
they always stayed with Fredk and Kate.  In a small gift book an entry
has Grandmama LADELL 1st March (Kate's mother).  The young one would have
accepted Kate as their mother..

Kate Anne 17 December 1854 b. Norwich- 28 October 1945, 19 Batford Road, Harpenden.

Kate's Father Richard Stephen Ladell ...... resident in Hackney, Studio 335 City Road.
fairly closely possibly a link through photography and social contact.

Step Family:   the subsequent Census records Kate Anne HADLOW
Although Marriage of Kate = Frederick, not found so far. 
The Census 1939  they did claim to have been married

Rose HADLOW  b, Eagle Street, City Road, Hoxton - 13 September 1877 - December  1943
Daisy HADLOW 27 July 1879 - 1968 Putney,
George Frederick HADLOW 1881  Mile End Old Town - 1966

As you had noted there were further studios in and around Plaistow, Custom House,
West Ham and Barking

This is a long saga which I hope does not make your head spin?
There are one or two examples of photographs in the cabinet format and the popular
carte de visite.

until next with news rom you

regards
Jean M

Hello

Many thanks for your reply,  that is the family and their
daughters Ethel, Martha Ellen, May and Florence CROSSLEY
employed in local woollen mill.

Jean M

Morning John,

Many thanks for your message. My research  is ongoing and the Forum
extremely lively and responsive. So many of the records have been digitised now to make access  very easy. 
We can exchange details and look forward to hearing from you
Jean M