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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: patmar on Sunday 10 March 24 19:34 GMT (UK)
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Mother and twin brother were born November 1916 in Liverpool. Birth cert said parents were Wallis and Matilda (Adams) Darlington long journey and long story but Wallis was not the father of the twins. Now know Wallis was in Gallipoli in August 1915 (He survived the war) but would like to know where he was located in Jan/Feb 1916 when the twins were conceived. Grateful for any help
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There were around 345,000 British troops at Gallipoli in the Summer of 1915 so we're going to need a bit more detail about Wallis if we are to have any chance of identifying his unit. After a stalemate set in during the Autumn, a lot of troops were pulled out of Gallipoli and sent to Macedonia and Salonika. By mid January 1916 virtually all British troops had been withdrawn from the area. Most of the troops were taken to Egypt to reconstitute and re-equip. Unless Wallis was moved back to Britain among the injured, I doubt if he was available to father any children in Jan/Feb, although much will depend on his unit at the time.
How do you know he was at Gallipoli? Does someone have his medals?
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Birth cert said parents were Wallis and Matilda (Adams) Darlington
Can't see an obvious marriage
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Don’t forget Twins would probably be born prematurely. So you might have to be looking say 30 weeks back rather than just 40 weeks +/- 2.
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CORRECTED YEAR
Ref: GRO Index
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There is a Ruth born March quarter 1917 mmn Adams - Liverpool
Rupert March quarter 1917 mmn Adams - Liverpool
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Are getting the information from Baptism records CORRECTED DATE
St Columba Liverpool
Ruth bap 6 December 1916 parents Wallis Darlington and Matilda - father Soldier address 53 Great Orford Street Liverpool (reg 1st quarter 1917)
Rupert bap 6 December 1916 same parents and address (he was not reg until next quarter)
Need the actual birth certificate £1.50 if you can get a PDF copy.
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Deleted. Corrected above.
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Wallis Darlington married Matilda Jane Adams 1908 registered Dublin Ireland
1911 census Ireland Dublin
Wallis 27
Matilda 23
Charlotte 1 (Mary Charlotte 1909)
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Birth cert said parents were Wallis and Matilda (Adams) Darlington
Can't see an obvious marriage
Is this his MRI? Ancestry sub required
www.rootschat.com/links/01t1x/
It can’t be if Walis was Wallis DARLINGTON
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Wallis Darlington married Matilda Jane Adams 1908 registered Dublin Ireland
Marriage 14 September 1908 at St Jude's Parish Church.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1908/10064/5660534.pdf
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1911 census Ireland Dublin
Wallis 27
Matilda 23
Charlotte 1 (Mary Charlotte 1909)
House 16 in Tyrconnell Street (New Kilmainham, Dublin)
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/New_Kilmainham/Tyrconnell_Street/101526/
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Where has the info come from that he was in Gallipoli?
I can't see any medals awarded to him for overseas service.
The above is an application.
His first unit listed is the 25th. Training Reserve Btn. who were
home service only.
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Was looking for Wallis Adams not Darlington.
Only looked at the card.
there's a pension ledger for him in the Leinsters but no MIC.
His unit at discharge was the RE (Waterways & Railways).
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Are getting the information from Baptism records CORRECTED DATE
St Columba Liverpool
Ruth bap 6 December 1916 parents Wallis Darlington and Matilda - father Soldier address 53 Great Orford Street Liverpool (reg 1st quarter 1917)
Rupert bap 6 December 1916 same parents and address (he was not reg until next quarter)
Need the actual birth certificate £1.50 if you can get a PDF copy.
Fascinating, no idea the twins were baptised in Liverpool soon after their births. The father of Matilda (Adams) Darlington died on 29 December in Dublin so I assumed Matilda came home for his funeral as the twins were baptised in her local COI church St Judes Inchicore Dublin. Have record of the baptisms and the later baptisms in 1920 when the twins were "adopted" by the couple who I and my family assumed were the biological parents. That is until 20 years after mother died we discovered she was "adopted". However no adoption in Ireland until 1952and this alone is why the story of the twins turned into a saga that took me 23 years to unravel, thanks to Ancestry DNA
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The children if full term would have been conceived late February/March , January would be 11 months.
Wallis died 1945 and Matilda 1957 they seem to stay together, perhaps other circumstances caused the adoption. They would have been 4 years old in 1920