Service Records for the Royal Engineers, 1891

[Romilly]

I’ve just looked on the GRO Website and it seem as though you can’t order PDF’s for Marriages? Just for Birth and Deaths, is that right?

Romilly

[Gadget]

I'm not sure that the PDFs would give you the original signature 

I think you would really need to get the original(s) from the local office (s)

Just checked re PDFs:

PDFs for historic digitised civil registration records held by GRO (birth entries from 1837 to up to 100 years ago and death entries from 1837 to 1957).

PS - I've managed to get copies of original entries when the couple married in  C of E. 

[Romilly]

It’s frustrating that some PR Marriages are available on FindMyPast and others aren’t.

The Marriage Certificate for William James Wilson and Margaret Rees, with original signatures, is definitely on there, although I had it anyway.

But I can’t see one for Richard Kean and MaryAnn Young in September 1880in Chorlton. GRO Ref: 8c 1062.

Perhaps it’s because it was a RC Marriage?

[ShaunJ]

I looked for a signature on the 1886 militia attestation....but it is unsigned!

[Romilly]

Thanks for looking Shaun,

I do have a copy of the signature; which I posted on here a few years back, but people thought it was the signature of his father, Richard Kean, senior. I’ll see if I can find it.

I’m looking at Richard Kean , number 254993 Royal Engineers.  I think that he was in the RASC MT,  motor transport and they were in Mesopotamia during WW1 and came back in 1918.  There is a pencilled O on his record which probably means overseas.

If this is the same Richard Kean who’s a Sapper in the Royal Engineers on the 1891 Census at Cheriton Barracks, Kent, - then I can probably rule him out as my Grandfather.

Romilly.

[Romilly]

This is Richard Kean;s signature on the 1886 Manchester Regiiment Attestation Papers.

Romilly.

[sandiep]

difficult to tell if signatures same as very different names

[Romilly]

On the 1911 Census for Swansea my Grandfather writes his third son’s name, Richard Wilson…

I was  just looking at the way he writes Richard.

[ShaunJ]

This is Richard Kean;s signature on the 1886 Manchester Regiiment Attestation Papers.

There are no Richard Kean signatures there:  the two "Signature of Recruit" lines are completely blank. Those are the only bits the recruit would complete so perhaps he did not proceed with the attestation.