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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: How does one catch gonorrhoea?
« on: Thursday 10 June 21 22:02 BST (UK)  »
Well this thread took an entertaining turn! As it happens, my question was mere clickbait to attract some helpers!
Big thanks to KGarrad for reading 'astringent' and Ruskie and Bookbox for reading the locations, it's really helped me track Francis down in new record sets!!
Thank you Annie for sassy demonstrations of your intimate knowledge of humanity's sexual habits in detail and related diseases.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / How does one catch gonorrhoea?
« on: Wednesday 09 June 21 12:49 BST (UK)  »
See attachment for Francis Day's military record. I can't read the 'treatment' or 'observation' column for his admission to hospital with gonorrhoea. Any help appreciated!
ALSO - I can't read the locations in the first column which appear between his two trips to Aldershot. I believe he served on the Gold Coast in the third anglo-ashanti war if that helps.
Thank you!!

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Armed Forces / Where to start on the Anglo-Ashanti Wars?
« on: Tuesday 08 June 21 15:54 BST (UK)  »
I have discovered that an ancestor fought in the Anglo-Ashanti Wars and was awarded the Gold Coast / Ashantee Medal (Coomassie Clasp).
Where can I turn for more information on the campaigns, especially the involvement of his regiment 1/23 and 2/23 Royal Welch Fusiliers?
Thank you!
Hywel

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Armed Forces / Lookup Request: Ashanti Medals // Gold Coast Medal // Ashanti Star
« on: Tuesday 08 June 21 15:49 BST (UK)  »
I hope I'm doing this right, I saw a post which offered lookups and asked for request to start new threads.

Please could someone look up Francis Day
born circa 1852 in Newport, S Wales
Enlisted into the 23rd Regt in Nov 1870
The number 76 appears on some of his papers, I think this is his regimental number

Thank you!!

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Could anyone out there help me? Lookup request
« on: Monday 08 March 21 07:58 GMT (UK)  »
Wow Sandra thanks so much, you found a lot of info here!!
It doesn't look like Daniel or Martha ever went to Canada then, just their children.

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Could anyone out there help me? Lookup request
« on: Sunday 07 March 21 15:37 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: *Sandra* on Sunday 07 March 21 15:35 GMT (UK)

Daniel Hillier 1849 England - died 4 November 1923 York Ontario - aged 74 years
Cause of Death:   Bronchitis - Informant Lillian Loughheed. 627 Logan ASve. (daughter)
Place of burial Norway Cemetery.

Sandra

Thank you so much for this Sandra! I happened to see this record on FamilySearch but don't recognise Daniel's daughter informant. Also, another record matches Daniel in Salisbury in 1922. So not sure which one to go for!

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Could anyone out there help me? Lookup request
« on: Sunday 07 March 21 15:36 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: PaulineJ on Sunday 07 March 21 15:33 GMT (UK)
When were they last seen in England?

Thank you Pauline.
I have Daniel in Salisbury in 1911
Martha died before 1891 and 1911
Ida married Alfred Naish in 1904 in Salisbury

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Canada Lookup Request / Could anyone out there help me? Lookup request
« on: Sunday 07 March 21 15:32 GMT (UK)  »
I'm sure there are Canadian records regarding this family but haven't access to any yet.
I'd be grateful if any of you could find anything on these? Thank yoU!

Daniel Hiller (b. 1845 in Wiltshire, England)
His wife, Martha Clara Hillier (b. 1850 in Wiltshire, England)
Their daughter Ida Emily Hillier (b. 1883 in Wiltshire, England)

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The Common Room / Re: Searching for Vessels in Census
« on: Saturday 09 May 20 16:22 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: stanmapstone on Saturday 09 May 20 12:03 BST (UK)
On Ancestry put Vessels in Keyword, which will give you the names of people on vessels in the census.

Stan

Thanks Stan!! I'll give this a go now!!

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