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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Alonzo Goodhead - Inheritance information
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 10:49 GMT (UK)  »
If you look on the probate records website https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/ you should find all wills and adminstrations for England for that date. My brief search revealed nothing - which would suggest that Alonzo didn't leave a Will nor enough money to need an Adminstration. It's possible that his Will was proved much later - that would need a more thorough search. If the estate had a reasonably large value it would have attracted death duties - you could try searching for that - see https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/death-duties-1796-1903/
Might also be worth a search of the London Gazette for official notices - I've had a quick search for Alonzo Goodhead and had no results, but the search engine is notoriously unreliable. See https://www.thegazette.co.uk/
If you can retrieve the newspaper article and quote it for us, we might be able to help as well.

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Armed Forces / Re: where to find the movements of Royal Navy ships
« on: Wednesday 06 March 24 10:34 GMT (UK)  »

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World War Two / Re: Call-up if colour blind
« on: Monday 04 March 24 22:44 GMT (UK)  »
Colour blindness I believe meant that the RN was not possible, and probably also flying duties. It wouldn't preclude army or ground-based RAF service. Mining was a reserved occupation.

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Berkshire / Re: St B GH awarded a silver prize for rowing 22 Feb 1890
« on: Saturday 24 February 24 20:02 GMT (UK)  »
Try the River and Rowing Museum at Henley.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Accuracy, then and now
« on: Thursday 22 February 24 20:48 GMT (UK)  »
Anything posted online without a link to an original record (e.g. birth cert, baptism register, whatever) is potentially suspect. Some original records are wrong (try comparing Bishop's Transcripts with the register, and compare them with other records.....). It's a minefield. And people make things up, misremember things; and the websites make what are sometimes appropriate guesses and sometimes totally mad guesses.

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Armed Forces / Re: Sargeant in the RAF
« on: Monday 19 February 24 09:46 GMT (UK)  »
Go to the search page on cwgc website; if you use Cairncross as a search term it retrieves 20 names, and so it's easy to find Gideon

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Armed Forces / Re: Sargeant in the RAF
« on: Monday 19 February 24 08:30 GMT (UK)  »

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My guess is that you're looking for a rule and there really isn't one, at least not one that was consistently applied, and that we are seeing the idiosyncratic approach of one incumbent. If only the various incumbents and parish clerks had considered at the time that we genealogists would want the data nearly 200 years on!

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World War One / Re: RAMC officer in WW1
« on: Saturday 10 February 24 10:32 GMT (UK)  »
Might be worth contacting Cranleigh. They may well know more. I can't see a direct link to an archivist, but they may well have one.

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