Understanding info on medal card - Jack Penfold

[Wendi]

Well done Deb, a nice result, let's hope it is him.

Is there any place/list i should look at now ...maybe hospitals etc .?

I'd say wait until you get the certificate and see what it says.   In the mean time don't forget that wonderful site genlist posted for you....

on genkui for Truro I saw this
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Cornwall/Truro/

Once you get the certificate post if you need help!!

Good hunting

Wendi

[deb usa]

Hi wendi

I am going to start searching the genuki this week. Thanks so much for all your help so far ...I have ordered the death cert ....so we will wait and see.

strange thing is .... your same message has come thru to my computer 14 times today ......you really want me to read the genuki stuff don't you ....    
i have no idea why it has kept on apppearing ...it's never happened to me before !  hee hee

speak soon
Deb

[deb usa]

Hi everyone 
I have just received info on the death cert of Jack/John penfold and it confirms that I had found the right one in the death index.

It states ; John penfold  died 11 april 1922, in Truro , Kenwyn, age 25
address: 21 calenick street
He was a general labourer and died of TB.
Dr Hood  and Jack's mother, Bessie Penfold , were present.


So poor jack survived the war, went to work and died a fews years later of TB!!

thanks everyone for your responses and time.
I appreciate it 

deb

[Wendi]

Deb, that was quick for a cert. 

How lucky you are.  I'm so glad and sad for you, that's reseach   It's nice his Mom was with him.  TB was a terrible disease, and probably neither the war or the flu after had a blind bit to do with it 

Best wishes for your future research

Wendi

[deb usa]

Hi Wendi ...

The cornwall records office are so quick to reply ...fortunately my folks live there so we only have to wait for 3 days to get a response.....thank goodness coz i am so impatient. 

I just wish that in those days pictures and photo's were the norm like today ...we , my family , seem to have been 'those peeps' that did not have the means or capacity for photo taking, hence the lack of 'photo heritage'....we have the stories ...which is FAB but a photo or two would have been the icing on the cake...... I wonder if there was photos taken of Jack/John in the duke of cornwall LI ...maybe i should write to them .... what do you think ?

thanks again for responding

Deb 

ps ...I have been thinking about Jack/John all evening and have discussed him with my hubby.....do you think other people get soooo close to dead rellies after all this searching?   I feel so sad for my gr grandparents having to bury their son.......   

[liverpool annie]

Hi Deb !

I finally ..... after a lot of years of looking -  finally got both my Grandmas death certificates this week !!
One died in childbirth after having TB for 2 years ............... Granddad was in the trenches -
the other died of the Spanish flu - and Granddad came home from the trenches to see to the children 
what blew me away - was that the regiments were both on the death certificates and service numbers too ....... if I'd have got those first - it would have saved an awful lot of looking .....  - but I have to admit I sat and boohooed for half an hour - thinking about the worry of the men .... trying to put that out of their heads and carrying on doing what they were doing ..................... ! and the Grandmas dying alone .... and all the kids that were left behind - farmed out to people who didn't care about them .... it breaks my heart ..... but I know the same thing happened to hundreds of families .........!

Annie