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Armed Forces / Any idea what these medals are?
« on: Saturday 15 December 12 16:35 GMT (UK)  »
This a very long shot but I'm wondering whether anyone can identify one or more of the medals shown here.

William Badger was born in 1873 in Chelsea and at some point he was obviously employed in the Royal Household. This photo appears to have been taken early in the 20th century and shows him in front of one of the State Landaus, resplendent in his full uniform of, presumably, a coachman or similar.

He is wearing four medals that unfortunately aren't very clear, but at least three seem to be military medals as they have clasps on the ribbons. It's possible that some might be Boer War medals, in view of the number of clasps, but I don't know enough about such things to be able to identify them.

I'm hopeful that someone here might be sufficiently knowledgeable about such things to be able to take a guess at what they are from the rather grainy image.

Peter

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Surrey / Re: Does this Godstone Road address still exist?
« on: Thursday 13 September 12 18:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jen,

I have today trudged the whole length of Godstone Road, Whyteleafe looking at the houses on both sides of the road. Unfortunately there isn't one that matches the one in your photo. There are still plenty of houses from the Victorian and Edwardian period, many still bearing a stone high up on the wall saying XXX Villas but it would appear that Lansdowne Villas has been demolished. There have been several new developments of flats and commercial properties since the 1950s in the northern part of the road and I suspect that Lansdowne Villas has made way for one of those. What a pity.

Regards

Peter

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Surrey / Re: Does this Godstone Road address still exist?
« on: Thursday 30 August 12 19:43 BST (UK)  »
It almost certainly would not have been a block of flats. Not only were there no flats in Whyteleafe in 1928, but a name like Xxxxx Villas was very common in the UK and was used to name a row of houses, usually before the entire road was numbered from end to end. Some still exist today but most have dropped the Villas address in favour of the overall numbering for the street.

Although there has been some redevelopment in Whyteleafe since the 20s, most of the houses from that period are still in existence and it's quite likely that the house is still there, albeit no longer called 5 Lansdowne Villas. The best way to find out is to check a series of street directories for the area to see when the Villas name changed to a street number. The local authority, which nowdays is Tandridge Council, may also be able to tell you when the street number was assigned. Their web site is www. tandridge.gov.uk.

Regards

Peter

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Any idea where this is in Yorkshire?
« on: Wednesday 18 July 12 10:23 BST (UK)  »
Sallyyorks,

Thanks for the thought but I don't think it can be Gisburn, Guisburn or any of the other spellings. When you compare the letter immediately after the G it is clearly the same as the penultimate letter and also the final R in Yorkshire. That makes the word start Gr...

Apart from that, there aren't any Noakes baptisms in either place in the period around 1819.

I agree with others that it actually says Grimbury and Isaac and the local Sussex enumerator could easily spell Grimsby that way, not having been anywhere near such a distant town.

Peter

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Any idea where this is in Yorkshire?
« on: Wednesday 18 July 12 00:41 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that Mosiefish. I would put money on that being him. Isaac junior's father was a mariner and in 1851 he is living down in Rye, Sussex, not all that far from Isaac junior, and described as a disabled mariner.

He (Isaac senior) and his wife Sarah both gave their birthplaces as Sussex (Seddlescomb and Rye respectively) so it seems that Sarah probably accompanied Isaac on his trips up the east coast and they ended up marrying and baptising their first child in Grimsby before returning to Sussex where their remaining children were born.

Well done on tracking that one down and thanks again.

Peter

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Any idea where this is in Yorkshire?
« on: Tuesday 17 July 12 11:31 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks to all of you for your ideas.

I had read the birthplace of Isaac as Grimbury but couldn't find anywhere in Yorkshire that would fit, while the odd Grimbury references were far from Yorkshire and also nowhere near where the family were living in East Sussex.

I admit I was initially sceptical about it being Grimsby, as that isn't in Yorkshire, but it's a stone's throw from there and I can imagine that a lad who came south with his parents before he was 10 years old might easily have mistaken the county by the time he was in his thirties. But I have now rather warmed to the idea.

I did have Isaac's brother James's baptism in Rye so knew that the boys' parents were Isaac (senior) Noakes and Sarah. I then found a marriage of an Isaac Noakes to Sarah Edwards on 4 November 1818 at St James church in Great Grimsby! That is only a year before Isaac junior's birth in 1819.

I need to gather a bit more proof, but it certainly looks as though Grimsby is where I should be looking. Unfortunately the baptism records for St James on Family Search have a gap between1812 and 1855 so I will need to delve elsewhere.

So a problem probably solved, thank you all.

Peter

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Any idea where this is in Yorkshire?
« on: Friday 13 July 12 16:20 BST (UK)  »
I've been trying to decipher the birth place of Isaac Noakes in the 1851 census. An extract of the page is below.

He is living in Sussex but his place of birth is clearly Yorkshire but I can't make out the location. Ancestry thinks it's Grovebury but it doesn't look like that to me and I can't find such a place.

The census reference is HO107/1634 folio 425 page 26 if anyone wants to see the original.

Any ideas? I don't even know which Riding it's in and have chosen to post the query here to start with, but I will cross post this to the other two Yorkshire Ridings boards if no one here recognises it.

Many thanks for any help in advance.

Peter

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Surrey / Re: Surrey Records to go online
« on: Friday 29 June 12 12:45 BST (UK)  »
Although only filmed and not indexed apparently. Still, it will be helpful if Woking is too far away to get to.

I hope Surrey History Centre keep a close eye on them, as Ancestry's quality control leaves much to be desired. Their filming of the LMA records has many pages missed due to sloppy page turning.

Peter

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1841 census for Westminster - WILKIE
« on: Saturday 17 March 12 17:55 GMT (UK)  »
Message sent off line.

Peter

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