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Offline Quarryman

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Arthur Thomas
« on: Wednesday 16 May 07 12:50 BST (UK) »
Trying to locate an Arthur Thomas (in his 20s) born Liverpool, possibly a  clerk with the garrison at Dover Castle.

Would he be in the 1891 census being a soldier?
Roberts, Caernarfon. Thomas, Caernarfon. Kite, Kent.

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Re: Arthur Thomas
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 16 May 07 13:13 BST (UK) »
If he was in the Army he could have been abroad, if that was the case, he would not show up in the Census.


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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Arthur Thomas
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 16 May 07 13:50 BST (UK) »
Hi Quarryman

I couldn't find him last time I looked :(

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,28380.0.html

Do you know how long he held that position and/or if he travelled with the army?

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Re: Arthur Thomas
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 16 May 07 14:11 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Sorry about the lack of detail.

He had left his Liverpool home by the time the 1891 census was taken, and he married in Dover in August 1896. He is described on his marriage certiificate as 'clerk, Army Ordnance Corps.

I know he left Dover later that year with their ten-month-old daughter!!!!!

He had severed his links with the Army, and moved to Nottingham to take up a civilian job.

I have a copy of his birth certificate issued in October 1899; I know he served in the Boer War, and presume he had to get his birth certificate to enlist.

He served for three years before returning to the UK.
Roberts, Caernarfon. Thomas, Caernarfon. Kite, Kent.
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