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Offline Joyful

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Re: Help with Extract
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 28 April 09 12:56 BST (UK) »
It could be prisoner but it doesn't make sense that he would be a
prisoner ON a prison ???
Surely, if he was a prisoner it would/should read IN and then
he wouldn't die at home ???


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Re: Help with Extract
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 28 April 09 12:58 BST (UK) »
Just seen this

It's Fireman (on HMS Cornhill)


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Re: Help with Extract
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 28 April 09 13:03 BST (UK) »






I have to agree with Gadget .. it is Fireman and not Prisoner.

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Re: Help with Extract
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 28 April 09 13:11 BST (UK) »
But, as Les pointed out, there was no H.M.S. Cornhill. I can see it might be Fireman (though the F still looks like a P to me!) The phrase "on Cornhill" is still used to describe that area of London. Is there another Cornhill. Could it be 'policeman'? There seem to be too many characters for "HMS" too. "HNCS"?
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Re: Help with Extract
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 28 April 09 13:13 BST (UK) »
more likely HMS Cornwall .... HMS Cornwall was a Monmouth-class armoured cruiser launched in 1902 and sold in 1920


do you have his war record Les - to confirm if he was a Navy Man ?
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Re: Help with Extract
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 28 April 09 13:22 BST (UK) »
Nope - thats my next port of call (sorry couldn't resist).  This branch of the family is the most interesting at present.  His father (Thomas King) shows on my Gran's marriage cert as a retired draper in 1913. In 1915 his wife re-married

   The war memorial plague in St. Michale's church Linlithgow shows a Thomas King - Fireman (1915).  Can't find any details for this person. I am making the assumption that he is the father of the  Thomas King whose death cert we are trying to decipher. Unless the plague should read Thomas King  - Fireman (1919)
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Re: Help with Extract
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 28 April 09 13:36 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ottobottle on Tuesday 28 April 09 13:11 BST (UK)
There seem to be too many characters for "HMS" too. "HNCS"?

I think what you are seeing as 'NC' is actually a very elongated 'M' in which part of the second upstroke is missing.

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Re: Help with Extract
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 28 April 09 13:56 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ottobottle on Tuesday 28 April 09 13:11 BST (UK)
But, as Les pointed out, there was no H.M.S. Cornhill.

Possibly the informant simply got the ship's name wrong? Or the registrar mis-heard it?

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« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 28 April 09 13:57 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ottobottle on Tuesday 28 April 09 13:11 BST (UK)
Is there another Cornhill.

There is a Cornhill in Plymouth which was/is also a naval town and Dockyard at Devonport
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Ooops - got my Plymouth and Aberdeen mixed up - I've lived in both places. It's Crownhill in Plymouth and Cornhill in Aberdeen!
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