FINDING MY GRANDAD

[corisande]

Does his Birth Cert give him as " Henry A Scholes". If not then it is not him

[corisande]

You are being a bit disingenuous here

You did have another thread
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=8j062mb221mab90g83cgnglmd4&topic=490275.0

..and you have had me chasing the same information that you got there 

[daisynook]

No only Henry

[SueK50]

Does his Birth Cert give him as " Henry A Scholes". If not then it is not him

The National Roll of the Great War was a post war subscription publication - ie you paid for an entry there - and generally if you survived - you wrote the entry yourself - and it seems to be suggested that there was a degree of stretching the truth in some entries

That said - if a man chooses to list himself as HA I don't think his birth registration would have been checked to make sure that agreed.

I have posted a long repsonse to this particular Scholes suggestion on the british-genealogy.com forum this morning with ideas for possible further research - and other family members have also been discussed there 

Looking at birth registrations for suitably aged men - only 3 appear as possibles for HA Scholes

Sep 1884   
Scholes    Henry Albert         Portsea        

Dec 1897 
Scholes    Herbert Andrew    Chorlton        

Jun 1899   
Scholes    Harold Arthur         Toxteth Park   

Given the Manchester connection (the battalion was TF based in Salford) - my guess is he's the middle one

Not that this helps the OP

Cheers
Sue

[maidmarianoops]

does Yew Tree farm ring any bells


sylvia

[daisynook]

No, should it?

[daisynook]

Here I am again still trying to find Harry Scholes.  I have been looking all day yesterday whilst records free!  Thanks to all who have made suggestions before, I followed them all up but still not found him.  The Dunham Massey lead came to nothing, nothing in their records.  I had given up looking and had assumed his record must have been one of those burnt in WW2 but I see that some of the burnt records are at Kew in the National Archives.  I have found a record which shows ' Scholes Harry - Scholes John' whatever that means, but I am unable to get to Kew to have a look  http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10901184.  It also says it can be viewed on Ancestry but when I go to Ancestry I can't find any burnt records and can only find all the people I have looked at before.  The only way I can pin-point him is by his next of kin on any record I can find and that should be his widowed mother Lucy Scholes living in Harpurhey, Manchester.
Any suggestions?
 

[redtonyt]

 On FindMyPast -British Royal Air Force, Airmen's service records 1912-1939

Harry SCHOLES  1884(?) - Occupation - Turner
Attestation date - 15th June 1917 - Age 31
Service No. 113073
Next of Kin -  Lucy SCHOLES, 173 Conran Street, Harpurhey, Manchester - Mother

Tony

[redtonyt]

The date of birth Harry Scholes gives on the RAF records is 1st August 1884  (which could in fact be his brother Arthur's date of birth(?)) - Arthur's birth was registered in the Sept quarter of 1884 (Prestwich district).

Tony