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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help deciphering this Naval profession
« on: Saturday 03 May 14 00:00 BST (UK) »
That's great, thanks!
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help deciphering this Naval profession
« on: Friday 02 May 14 23:02 BST (UK) »
The ones underneath 'Ord' - Boy something?!
Any help appreciated, thanks
Any help appreciated, thanks
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Armed Forces / Re: 1st Battalion Grenadier guards 1851
« on: Tuesday 18 September 12 13:10 BST (UK) »
Found an 1841 census for Eaton Hastings (3 miles from Farringdon) for a John Hunt, father James, who doesn't seem to appear on any other censuses! Can you guys have a quick look and see what you think? 
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8978&iid=BRKHO107_25_27-0420&fn=John&ln=Hunt&st=r&ssrc=pt_t25737453_p1876615903_kpidz0q3d1876615903z0q26pgz0q3d32770z0q26pgPLz0q3dpid&pid=1363903
Berkshire > Eaton Hastings > District 5 > page 3
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=view&r=5538&dbid=8978&iid=BRKHO107_25_27-0420&fn=John&ln=Hunt&st=r&ssrc=pt_t25737453_p1876615903_kpidz0q3d1876615903z0q26pgz0q3d32770z0q26pgPLz0q3dpid&pid=1363903
Berkshire > Eaton Hastings > District 5 > page 3
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Armed Forces / Re: 1st Battalion Grenadier guards 1851
« on: Tuesday 18 September 12 12:43 BST (UK) »
At the moment both sound promising!
gortonboy - where did you find that service record? Would I be able to view it via ancestry? It sounds like my family, all of them were, erm.. 'dodgy'
Plus as Elizabeth, his wife, is often lodging with and without her children, she may have just said she was a widow, as I have had this happen on my mum's side twice before - one for a lady who was never married in the first place!
km1971 - I hadn't been able to find the hospital on the census, do you have the ref no.s/a link? For some reason I have an 1841 census in Berkshire attached to him, I think just because the father is called James. So this could be him...
Thanks for your help, would love to find him as this is the main surname I wanted to research and is only one of two brick walls in the entire tree!
gortonboy - where did you find that service record? Would I be able to view it via ancestry? It sounds like my family, all of them were, erm.. 'dodgy'
Plus as Elizabeth, his wife, is often lodging with and without her children, she may have just said she was a widow, as I have had this happen on my mum's side twice before - one for a lady who was never married in the first place!km1971 - I hadn't been able to find the hospital on the census, do you have the ref no.s/a link? For some reason I have an 1841 census in Berkshire attached to him, I think just because the father is called James. So this could be him...
Thanks for your help, would love to find him as this is the main surname I wanted to research and is only one of two brick walls in the entire tree!
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Armed Forces / Re: 1st Battalion Grenadier guards 1851
« on: Monday 17 September 12 23:29 BST (UK) »
Also, he dies between 1854 and 1861 as Sarah is listed as a widow, so the 1851 census is the only one I have any hope of finding him on, unless she was telling fibs.
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Armed Forces / Re: 1st Battalion Grenadier guards 1851
« on: Monday 17 September 12 23:28 BST (UK) »
Unfortunately not, as I said all I have is his marriage cert where he is living in the barracks, as his wife and kids are never with him in the censuses. 
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Armed Forces / Re: 1st Battalion Grenadier guards 1851
« on: Monday 17 September 12 22:47 BST (UK) »
Just to add, the only info I have on him is from his marriage cert. So he was 'full age' in 1849, and his father was James Hunt, a labourer. Neither facts are particularly helpful at this stage! 
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Armed Forces / 1st Battalion Grenadier guards 1851
« on: Monday 17 September 12 22:40 BST (UK) »
Hello!
I am trying to find my Great x2 Grandfather John Hunt, on the 1851 census. I know he was in the 1st battallion Grenadier guards, and the newspaper reports have him in St george's barracks in dec 1849 which matches his marriage cert., so I assume these listing are correct. That would mean that he should be in the Tower barracks for 1851 (although the last reference I have of him being in the 1st battalion is his sons birth cert in 1850).
They did move to the New Windsor barracks about the time of the census, and I know they did not always move the battalion in one go.
So basically I'm wondering two things:
1) what are the chances he changed battalions/regiments in the space of a year
2) would they have made the transition to each barracks all in one go, or would they have stayed overnight somewhere? Meaning on the night of the census they might have been 'camped out' so to speak?
I have so far found a William and a Thomas Hunt in these two barracks, and I suppose he could have changed his first name (I've had it happen twice before in this family) or lied to my greatx2 Grandmother about his first name for some reason, but he does have another child with her (I presume it's his) in 1854 so it would seem a strange thing to do.
Thanks in advance for your help!
I am trying to find my Great x2 Grandfather John Hunt, on the 1851 census. I know he was in the 1st battallion Grenadier guards, and the newspaper reports have him in St george's barracks in dec 1849 which matches his marriage cert., so I assume these listing are correct. That would mean that he should be in the Tower barracks for 1851 (although the last reference I have of him being in the 1st battalion is his sons birth cert in 1850).
They did move to the New Windsor barracks about the time of the census, and I know they did not always move the battalion in one go.
So basically I'm wondering two things:
1) what are the chances he changed battalions/regiments in the space of a year
2) would they have made the transition to each barracks all in one go, or would they have stayed overnight somewhere? Meaning on the night of the census they might have been 'camped out' so to speak?
I have so far found a William and a Thomas Hunt in these two barracks, and I suppose he could have changed his first name (I've had it happen twice before in this family) or lied to my greatx2 Grandmother about his first name for some reason, but he does have another child with her (I presume it's his) in 1854 so it would seem a strange thing to do.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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The Lighter Side / Re: Super fun name game
« on: Wednesday 15 August 12 18:04 BST (UK) »
Teehee!
Carrying on in that vein, I came across "Eagle Glasscock" yesterday. Replace glass with Wood and I think that's a name any man would be proud of! Although strangely he didn't use it much in the censuses...
Carrying on in that vein, I came across "Eagle Glasscock" yesterday. Replace glass with Wood and I think that's a name any man would be proud of! Although strangely he didn't use it much in the censuses...