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Ronald Hugh MacGregor Pierce was born on 21 April 1896 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.  He was the sixth of 11 children of my gg-grandparents John Timbrell Milward Pierce and Annie Wylie MacGregor.  He was educated at King's School, Gloucester and subsequently at Haileybury 1911-1913.

Ronald, a 2nd Lieutenant in the 13th Bn att 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own), died on the Somme aged 20 on 14 September 1916.  His remains were not recovered but he is commemorated both at Thiepval and on the gravestone of three of his siblings who predeceased him in Danbury, Essex.  His family placed an In Memoriam notice in The Times each 14 September for many years after his death.

Apologies if this has been raised before.

On three recent occasions (all in the last week) I've gone to a 1901 census entry on Ancestry to find that the "source citation" information on the summary page has been removed and is blank.

To check this (and provide examples) I've done quick searches on members of my own family in different parts of the country in 1901:

Celia Markham b 1833 Framlingham, Suffolk (in Lambeth in 1901)
Mary J Pierce b 1836 Redditch, Worcs (in Danbury, Essex in 1901)
Victor Milward b 1841 Redditch (in Wellesbourne Mountford, Warwickshire in 1901)

Random I know, and a small sample, but as it turns out none of them yields an indexed reference. Obviously one can find out the reference, but if it's not in the index it's not searchable.

So, e.g., Victor Milward's reference is RG13 piece 2937 folio 80 page 21, but that yields no results in the Ancestry reference search box under "Old Search".

Any thoughts? Are Ancestry simply going to abandon reference-based searching when they do away with Old Search?

Hi all

I have a question regarding this entry from (new) Familysearch:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NTFG-MXY

I have a note in my tree that a baptism with identical details took place in Wickham, rather than Whitchurch.  Regrettably it is unsourced, but may have come from old Familysearch.

If it's Wickham it's a good match for my ancestor, who cites Wickham as his birthplace in the censuses.

Is anybody able to clear up the confusion?

I hope it's not inappropriate to ask this (it's not FH related), but if any kind Rootschatter with the amazing skills used on this board would be prepared to do me a huge favour and turn a (small) modern digital B&W photo to colour I'd be hugely grateful if they would PM me.

Thanks 

Anna

Added: completed with thanks to a very kind Rootschatter

Does anybody have access to memorial/monumental inscriptions for St Anne's Soho?

One of my most intractable brick walls is my 5x g-grandfather George PIERCE, shown as buried there on 31 December 1823 aged 55, his address Richmond Buildings. 

Although I know about his marriage (to Betsey MATTHEWS, St James Westminster, 1790) and his life thereafter, including seven children and his jewellery business at Richmond Buildings, I know nothing of his birthplace, parents*, siblings or anything else pre-marriage.  His will doesn't provide any enlightenment on his background, though it is endorsed with his death date of 24 December 1823 which ties in well with the burial record.

Desperate measures - might his gravestone tell me something useful?  The family was well-off, so I would expect there to have been a memorial.

Any help most gratefully received.

Anna

*Slight caveat on parents: a handwritten family tree which I have inherited shows him as born 19 Dec 1768, son of George. But no source is cited for this, no location, and the person who drew up the tree is now long deceased.