Marriages 1895 Cape Town South Africa

[suzyvan]

I have found your family; PM me your email address and I will send you the original records.

Kathleen Frances Brown; spinster; Married John Alfred Thomas Conquest  16/09/01 Woodstock South Africa.

John was A soldier;
Children;
Alfred William        18/01/03        Devonport
Florence Maud       10/12/04        Devonport
May Lilian              05/11/05        Devonport
Rena Ellen              16/01/07        Devonport
Hester                    20/05/ 09       Spike Island
Dorothy Rosemary  05/06/12         Cape Town
John Leslie             05/04/14        Cape Town.

Cheers Kaz

[km1971]

His Service Record covering 1892 to the end of WW1 is on Ancestry - http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1114/miuk1914a_083915-00957/887714?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dBritishArmy%26gss%3dsfs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dAlfred%2bJohn%2bThomas.%26gsln%3dconquest%26MSAV%3d0%26uidh%3de13&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

He ended up as a Battery Sergeant Major. The army knew him as Alfred John Thomas. As his record is in the 'pension' files it suggests he died before the end of WW2, as these files were sent  to replace the originals lost in the fire in 1940, So they were were no longer required by the pensions dept. Actually they were not lost in the fire. So there is a slightly burnt different set in Ancestry's WW1 Service Records.

Spike Island is in Cork Harbour.

He had a younger brother James who also served in the Royal Artillery.

Ken

[Kathy conquest Forsyth-smith]

Hi, he lived until 1959 I remember him well. I was born in 47. But my grandmother is the problem. Thank you so much tho for your help.