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Staffordshire / Re: Canal Boatmen and Women
« on: Wednesday 29 May 19 10:34 BST (UK)  »
On 5th March 1866, George Cornwall (aka Cornwell), born at Ipstones and a canal boatman on the Cauldon Canal, married Elizabeth Kent, daughter of Thomas Kent, boatman, at St Mark's, Shelton in The Potteries.  Elizabeth was supposedly 20 years old (marriage certificate).  Five years later, in the 1871 Census, Elizabeth was still 20 years old; in 1881 she was 30, in 1891 41 (Census) and 42 (death).  Thus she was born, in Shelton or the adjacent Etruria, c1850 and was no more than 15 or 16 when she married.

While I know lots about the Cornwell family I can find nothing about this Thomas Kent and his daughter.  I've checked out at least two of the Elizabeths born in 1850-51 and neither seems right.   There's an 1861 Census Shelton entry for Thomas Kent, captain, born Cheddleton (near Ipstones) in 1824, with wife Jane 30, Goldenhill, and Elizabeth (7, Etruria).  If accurate, the age of this Elizabeth in 1866 would be 12.

I cannot see any Kents listed in this current line of enquiry, but would like to know if any canal family researchers have encountered this father and daughter? 

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World War One / Re: Private A Cornwall of the Sherwood Foresters
« on: Wednesday 22 May 19 20:32 BST (UK)  »
My grateful thanks to Max D for his help.

I've now been able to see a 'clean' copy of both sides of the card.  As expected, the assorted numbers for the assessment of the pension are not that easy to understand, and they haven't helped me work out whether my grandfather was a volunteer or a conscript. 

BB

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World War One / Re: Private A Cornwall of the Sherwood Foresters
« on: Wednesday 27 March 19 17:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for this Max.  A colleague in a local FH group has said the same.  Perhaps I'll get organised and do it instead of waiting for someone else to do everything for me (or hoping that someone from the WFA reads the forum).

The lack of response from other researchers seems to suggest that there is an unwillingness to pay for access to fold3 (as a costly addition to Ancestry):  I did see this discussed on RootsChat not long ago. 

BB

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World War One / Re: Private A Cornwall of the Sherwood Foresters
« on: Wednesday 27 March 19 10:11 GMT (UK)  »
Perhaps as a footnote here I should add that my paternal grandfather's Pension Record Card / Record Ledger are now on the fold3 system (I have long had his other service documentation), and the scan is again only semi-legible.  Too much of the scan is blurred.  The central section looks to have been correctly transcribed, and I can recognise information because I know his address and much of his service details.  However, the left-hand column, which I suspect lists the service details on which the pension entitlement has been calculated, is effectively illegible.

It seems to me that the Western Front Association, whose records these are, should return to Ancestry and ask whether the scanning has been done to an acceptable, professional standard.     

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World War One / Re: Private A Cornwall of the Sherwood Foresters
« on: Friday 15 March 19 10:02 GMT (UK)  »
Max

Thanks so much for your speedy response.  Your different leads are so much appreciated.  I'd looked at assorted medal cards over the years but until I had yesterday's link to a regiment and service number I was stuck.  Thanks yet again.

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World War One / Private A Cornwall of the Sherwood Foresters
« on: Friday 15 March 19 09:08 GMT (UK)  »
After years of trying, and failing to find, any record of my maternal grandfather's World War One service, out-of-the-blue I've now discovered (via Ancestry Fold3) a record from the Pensions Record Cards and Ledgers 1914-23.  The reference is certainly to my grandfather (age, home address) but the scan I was able to check was very blurred.  What I've discovered is:
Private Arthur Cornwall, Sherwood Foresters, Service No. 96555; date of discharge 13/09/19.
Unfortunately the first column on the left, on the scan I accessed, was not legible.  Would it have given clues to his enlistment, length of service, theatres of war?  Can anyone else read it?  [He was born in 1891 in Fenton, Staffordshire, and his surname at birth was Cornwell.]

Now that I have his regiment and service number, where else ought I to go looking for information?  Are there regimental records, for instance?

Thanks in anticipation

BB

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Worcestershire / Re: Problem with Maria
« on: Wednesday 13 March 19 10:34 GMT (UK)  »
Another date to change:

Eliza Bishop born 1847 Dec Qtr Cleobury Mortimer Volume 18 Page 35 [GRO Index]

Interesting that she was registered across the border in Shropshire when census returns say she was born Mamble, Worcestershire.  Boundary changes?

BB

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Worcestershire / Re: Problem with Maria
« on: Wednesday 13 March 19 10:12 GMT (UK)  »
John Bishop died 1866 March Qtr, Cleobury Mortimer 6a, 455 [see GRO Index]

Mary Maria Bishop married John Bridgwater, 1868 June Qtr, Cleobury Mortimer, 6a 1065 [see freebmd.org.uk]

I notice a couple of errors:
John Bishop born 1855 D Qtr, Cleobury Mortimer 6a 469
Henry Bishop born 1858 S Qtr Cleobury Mortimer 6a 509

I hope this helps.

BB

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can Kodak Transparancies be turned into real photographs ?
« on: Monday 25 February 19 10:06 GMT (UK)  »
I've just binned another thousand of my old slides; over the years I've cut back from 8000 to 2000.  Of the remaining 2000, perhaps a quarter have either been transferred to the computer or had prints made from them.  If you've not started on this transfer as yet, might I suggest you buy a cheap little hand viewer, go through the slides and determine which, if any, are worth preserving?  You  might find that you are left with a couple of hundred, which will make the transfer process less taxing or costly.

BB

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