NOK Name on Service Record

[avm228]

Not my area but there seems to be/have been a Violet Bank in the Annan area:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Scotland-Postcard-River-Annan-from-Violet-Bank-Annan-Real-Photograph-A8762-/121305113487

It looks as though the Hendon, Middx address on the military record was deleted in favour of Violet Bank, Annan, N.B.

Added: or maybe he was misheard - they thought he'd said "Violet Bank Hendon" (and added Middlesex) before he corrected them to "Violet Bank Annan" at which point Hendon was crossed through.

[avm228]

This transcription shows that there was a BELL family at Violet Bank as early as 1881. 

http://pubshistory.com/Scotland/Annan/Annan1881part5.shtml

Perhaps Sarah married a member of that family?

[gmc4404]

Thanks avm228

That makes sense now that i look at it again it does look like it was crossed through.
He was born in 1879 so his mother could well have re-married by the time she noted as NOK on his service record.

Gives me another avenue to chase

Thanks
Greg

[Jolee]

Don't know if this is any help but he married Mary Farrell in Edmonton Middlesex in 1909 (the name on the bottom) under next of kin

[gmc4404]

Thanks Jolee

Got that - thought i would chase down that side a little later.
Mary and her son eventually migrated to Australia in 1922

GMC

[Ruskie]

Well sorted avm. I didn't notice that part of the address had been crossed out. 

It all makes sense. (and Bell is a nice Scottish name too  )

[avm228]

GMC: have you found Robert's birth? Should be St Pancras c1879 per the military record, but he seems elusive!

Violet Bank Cottage, Annan, was occupied in 1901 by Richard Bell (50 b Annan) and his wife CMK Bell 42 b Cummertrees. 

This Bell family appears in 1891 at Justinlees Farmhouse, Cummertrees, Richard's wife enumerated as Catherine, in a household headed by a John Haining b abt 1842 Annan - from what I can see Catherine may be John Haining's sister but you'd need to check the censuses on Scotlandspeople.

Added: yes, she was born Catherine Margaret Kelton Haining in Cummertrees, 1858 and as Catherine M K Haining b c 1859 appears in the 1871 & 1881 censuses at Justinlees, Cummertrees - brother is John.

It looks as though Catherine Haining married Richard Bell in 1882 and died in 1929.

[avm228]

It all makes sense. (and Bell is a nice Scottish name too  )

Yes indeed    Now I am curious as to how Sarah fits in at Violet Bank!

[gmc4404]

Hi avm

I have not found Robert's birth other than what it says on his service record.
The closest i could find is
   
    Middlesborough Dec 1879 9d 524

The BELL-HAINING link appears to me to be the wrong way around though??

If he was a Haining and his mother a BELL then .....now i'm getting myself confused!!!!