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London and Middlesex / Re: Adopted son - help with WWII Fireman please
« on: Thursday 13 September 12 09:47 BST (UK) »
My neighbour found his mother and met her several times. The fact his father was a fireman came directly from her.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Adopted son - help with WWII Fireman please
« on: Thursday 13 September 12 09:26 BST (UK) »
According to my neighbour, there was a fire station at Alperton and his mother went to dances there. She met her fireman at the dances but the presumption is, of course, that he lived locally.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Adopted son - help with WWII Fireman please
« on: Thursday 13 September 12 08:38 BST (UK) »
The Records Service couldn't help either; saying the Wembley area was not within London.
They have given me the address of the Civic Centre Library in Harrow.
They have given me the address of the Civic Centre Library in Harrow.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Adopted son - help with WWII Fireman please
« on: Friday 07 September 12 15:08 BST (UK) »
I am afraid my Ancestry subscription is the basic one. I also don't know his age or his location.
I have received a reply from the Museum at London Fire Brigade; this was email address given on the web site. The only have records up to the 1920s but I have been put in contact with the Brigade's Records Services.
I shall not post the email address here because of spammers but please PM me is anyone is interested.
I have received a reply from the Museum at London Fire Brigade; this was email address given on the web site. The only have records up to the 1920s but I have been put in contact with the Brigade's Records Services.
I shall not post the email address here because of spammers but please PM me is anyone is interested.
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London and Middlesex / Jacques family
« on: Thursday 06 September 12 19:54 BST (UK) »
Further to my earlier post on a WWII fireman, I should be interested in hearing from anyone who is researching the surname Jacques in London, possibly in the Wembley area.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Adopted son - help with WWII Fireman please
« on: Thursday 06 September 12 16:30 BST (UK) »
Very true. My neighbour seems to think he was local but this may be just a supposition.
I have emailed the museum from the link provided by GrahamSimons.
I have emailed the museum from the link provided by GrahamSimons.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Adopted son - help with WWII Fireman please
« on: Thursday 06 September 12 16:15 BST (UK) »
My neighbour was born in 1945 and his birth was registered with his mother's husband's surname but with no father given.
The name of his father is all we have together with the fact he was a fireman. Whether this was full time or an auxiliary in the war, we have no idea. My neighbour thinks it would not have been the London Fire Brigade as Alperton (Wembley) is too far from the city.
The name of his father is all we have together with the fact he was a fireman. Whether this was full time or an auxiliary in the war, we have no idea. My neighbour thinks it would not have been the London Fire Brigade as Alperton (Wembley) is too far from the city.
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London and Middlesex / Adopted son - help with WWII Fireman please
« on: Thursday 06 September 12 15:40 BST (UK) »
I am usually to be found on the WRY board but am here helping a neighbour.
My neighbour was adopted after his mother's husband came back from the war to find her with a child which wasn't his. My neighbour found his mother and, just before she died, she gave him a piece of paper with his father's name.
I have not given this name as there is a slim possibility he is still alive. He was a fireman.
The mother was living at Alperton (near Wembley) at the time of my neighbour's birth.
Any help and advice in tracing a fire station near to Alperton would be most helpful.
Thank you.
My neighbour was adopted after his mother's husband came back from the war to find her with a child which wasn't his. My neighbour found his mother and, just before she died, she gave him a piece of paper with his father's name.
I have not given this name as there is a slim possibility he is still alive. He was a fireman.
The mother was living at Alperton (near Wembley) at the time of my neighbour's birth.
Any help and advice in tracing a fire station near to Alperton would be most helpful.
Thank you.
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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Non-conformist baptism look up please
« on: Wednesday 27 July 11 13:13 BST (UK) »
I have found two marriages of a Mary Mitchell at Elland; 14 Nov 1836 To Robert Whipp and 7 May 1837 to John Denham.
If Mary was born in 1820/1 but not baptised until 1822 then she is just about old enough for the second marriage. John Mitchell was one of the witnesses to the marriage to John Denham so it may indeed be the right one.
If Mary was born in 1820/1 but not baptised until 1822 then she is just about old enough for the second marriage. John Mitchell was one of the witnesses to the marriage to John Denham so it may indeed be the right one.