Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - stevej60

Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 ... 39
19
World War One / Re: Finding out more info about the Purdy Brothers from Spennymore Durham in WW1
« on: Friday 29 September 23 23:16 BST (UK)  »
Worth checking out the excellent North East War Memorials project website,you can search by name or town.Cornforth includes a photo of Toms original grave before the standard stone was erected.He&
Wilfred are named on the village and church memorials in the village.They are both on the memorial for Coxhoe  village council school old boys.

20
Durham / Re: Help needed please.ephriam Farnsworth b.1899 re.Sgt.Ronald Farnswoth RAF.
« on: Thursday 28 September 23 18:02 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Carole i had a list of the larger family using Familysearch juat could not work out the relationship.
Many thanks CD,Ronald was part of a Mitchell crew lost on a training mission in 1943 he,s recorded on our village memorial as well as the Ottawa memorial.

21
Durham / Help needed please.ephriam Farnsworth b.1899 re.Sgt.Ronald Farnswoth RAF.
« on: Thursday 28 September 23 12:17 BST (UK)  »
Morning folk's help needed on this person.When my wifes Grandmother passed among photo's and
documents we inherited was a yellowing envelope from the then Imperial war graves commision
containing the register from the WW2 Ottawa memorial for those missing on operations and accidents
in North America and the Carribean.She had enquired about Sgt. Ronald Farnsworth missing on ops
out of the bahamas in 1943.Mary's mother was Harriet Farnsworth b.1877 to Abram and Jane near
Consett.Harriet married James Wilson in 1899 Lanchester I'm trying to find the link between daughter
Mary my wifes Grandmother and Ephriam and Ronald his son as there must have been one to enquire
to the Commission.Any help appreciated.
Steve.

22
Northumberland Lookup Requests / Re: St Peters West Sleekburn burial's.
« on: Wednesday 19 July 23 19:42 BST (UK)  »
Hi folk's despite a warning that due to the workload it may take up to 20 days to answer my request
an hour later they confirmed the records were available and a visit possible without booking during
normal hours excellent service and I plan to visit then drive the short distance to the churchyard the
only worry is having got the plot number can I locate it in the cemetery!

23
Northumberland Lookup Requests / Re: St Peters West Sleekburn burial's.
« on: Tuesday 18 July 23 18:24 BST (UK)  »
Thank's Jen,took your advice and checked their catalogue they do indeed hold the burial registers  I
need I've e-mailed them to see if the do lookup requests failing that it might be able to visit the
office then the churchyard I'm only down near Durham anyway.

24
Northumberland Lookup Requests / Re: St Peters West Sleekburn burial's.
« on: Tuesday 18 July 23 15:41 BST (UK)  »
Thank's Carole I'll give it a try,might be worth giving T&W archives a ring too.

25
Northumberland Lookup Requests / St Peters West Sleekburn burial's.
« on: Monday 17 July 23 21:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi  thanks to information by fellow rootschat members I know my GT Grandmother Sarah Ellen Woodhouse was buried in the churchyard in 1936,can anyone tell me where the records are kept I'd like to visit and possibly find the plot.
Regard's Steve.

26
World War One / Re: New canal through the Somme
« on: Sunday 21 May 23 18:36 BST (UK)  »
It will be fascinating to see what remains are found I wonder if DNA will be a possibility,it's always worth contacting the CWGC when researching a casualty,my Uncle was killed in May 1940 in an incident in a village near Arras no known grave,I noticed some of his company comrades were buried a few miles way in Lille I enquired the circumstances of this and their records showed 17 bodies were originally buried in the Village churchyard and were concentrated to Lille after the war 4 were unidentified,I like to think he may be one of the four.

27
Durham / Re: Jane Ann Potts Gateshead/Wardley.
« on: Monday 01 May 23 14:56 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks again for the information Jon.

Pages: 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 ... 39