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Rafborough is on the OS maps:
http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=487328&y=153550&z=120&sv=farnborough&st=3&tl=Map+of+Farnborough,+Hampshire+[Town]&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf
although it is placed incorrectly in this link.
Rafborough was built by prisoners of war from WW1. It is just north of the airfield and is south east of where it says it is on that link. It is bordered to the south by Marrowbrook Lane, by Cody Road to the west, Fletcher Road and Busk Crescent to the north, and Weir Av to the east. In the middle are Keith Lucas Road and Gooden Crescent where I live. There are also some of the same houses at the northeasten end of Marrowbrook Lane.
We dont think of ourselves in Rafborough anymore. Its an old name, we are now Farnborough. Although an old guy who used to live opposite would insist that we are not in Farnborough but the village of Cove.
Cody flew the first plane in Europe, Gooden was the first director of RAE (Royal Air Establisment - or similar name). I think that Fletcher was also RAE. Another old timer said that Keith Lucas invented the aeronautical compass but I have never found any info to support this.

I have recently found that that my grandfather was in the RFC and am looking to trace his service records.
I suspect that he transferred over to the RAF as his name is on the list of first personel. I know that the service records are in "Air 79" in Kew. But you have to go their in person.

Is there anywhere else that these records are? Are they online at all?

Jenn, not sure if she did look further on the electoral roles.

Neil, yes the grandfather died in NSW. Have his death certificate and probate.

Sue, I hadnt thought of FB. Again, glaringly obvious once its been suggested. This is why I like this site so much, people suggest stuff you have not thought of.


I am not totally comfortable with putting my grandfathers name or his last wife's name here. I have so much to go on now, that hopefully I or my father can find his half sister. If we dont, then I might come back with their names.

Thanks for all your thoughts.

I am hoping that someone can give me some advice on where to look next.

My father never knew his father. We recently found out that he died in Australia in 1957. We have his death certificate and on it, it says that there was a daughter from the last marriage, a half-sister my father didnt know.
We have her first name from this, and that she was born in 1948 in Sydney.

From his probate papers, we know the daughters middle name and her date of birth.

We know where her mother was buried. My father sent a letter asking them to pass it onto the owner of the grave; its his half sister who has now married. The last contact the cemetery had with her was in 1989.

From the 1980 electoral role, we find her with the same married surname as above, and her husbands name.

We cant find her death in the Ryerson index.
My Dad has hired someone in Sydney. They couldnt find her in the most recent electoral role.
Havent had any luck with Lost Cousins.

Is there anywhere else that we could look for her?

There is also a Thomas Kerr who was tried for (cant read the crime) in 1840 in Lancashire (again cant read where, but it looks like Liverpool). He was age 25 and was found not guilty.

There also looks like there was a will; 24 Nov 1881. Attached to Thomas Kerr, 1817-1881. Unfortunately, I cant see any more.