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London & Middlesex Lookup Offers / Re: London County Council Staff 1929
« on: Tuesday 09 April 13 18:23 BST (UK)  »
I expect the book although published 1929 was collated the year before (I used to work for the GLC/ILEA at County Hall) and this Joseph Heyes may have just joined the Authority thus enabling him at 30 to get married - so he could easily have missed the printing deadline.
A BIG thank you for looking though.
Sue

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London & Middlesex Lookup Offers / Re: London County Council Staff 1929
« on: Tuesday 09 April 13 01:49 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for the Heys detail but I was looking for Joseph as Heyes, as per the marriage certificate which arrived today. Was there no one with that spelling ??
Sue


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London & Middlesex Lookup Offers / Re: London County Council Staff 1929
« on: Monday 08 April 13 16:22 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I have just received a marriage certificate for Joseph Heyes age 30 on 10/01/1930 when he married Emily Chambers at Ilford.  His address is given as 78 Wellesley Road, Ilford and is rank/profession is
"L.C.C. Official".  So I'm hoping Joseph will be listed but sorry I don't know which department.

I have been hunting for a Joseph Heys for quite a while and this Joseph Heyes could be ours.  The father's name is correct but the occupation is wrong, but other siblings had upped their father's employment status on their marriage certificates as he had died in 1906 (The best was Company Director when he was a wood cutter/sawyer) and likewise siblings got listed as Heys or Heyes on various official documentation I have found.  It wasn't helped by their parents only registering the first two children in 1882 and 1884 the subsequent four I haven't been able to find in the GRO indexes and Joseph is one of those....and over the years I have searched under Keys and Reys and even Mays. 
Many Thanks
Sue Heys

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Devon / Re: Crew of HMS Serpent
« on: Monday 07 May 12 23:48 BST (UK)  »
Many Thanks
I've registered and am currently in the moderation queue !
Sue

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Devon / Re: Crew of HMS Serpent
« on: Monday 07 May 12 20:48 BST (UK)  »
My parents were asking me about the crew of the HMS Serpent yesterday. 

They visited the cemetery in the 1980s when it was somewhat run down and they were very pleased to see how tidy it looked on the website pages I found for them.

I couldn’t find the ship on the CLIP pages on Find my Past as they appear to be all merchant ships not Royal Navy.   Have you still got the link to the Navy crew list ??

Many Thanks
Sue

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London and Middlesex / Re: st georges hanover square - birth of James Wells
« on: Friday 05 March 10 15:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
James was my maternal grandmother's grandfather.  He married Ann Elizabeth Russell in Tunbridge Wells (although Ann was baptised to Fanny Gadd before her marriage to Thomas Russell).

I too had found the baptisms of James and Joseph Wells together in 1825 at St Georges Hanover Square.  The transcripts at westminster archives give their actual dates of birth but using Ancestry recently I was surprised to see that the original baptism register doesn't give their dates of birth only that they were the children of Daniel and Sophia Wells of Lancashire Court, which is not far from St Georges.  In 1815 their sister Sarah was also baptised at St Georges.

Having made a connection with the Wells family of Wisborough Green, Sussex as they too settled in Tunbridge Wells in the mid 19th century and had a Daniel Wells as a cousin being a younger son of of a James Wells of Wisborough Green.  There was no death or marriage for this Daniel Wells in the Wisborough Green registers (I did go to Chichester and check the parish registers) - names and dates fitted and for years I have assumed I had the correct family.

BUT ancestry is now giving access to the burial records too and Daniel Wells of Lancashire Court was buried in 1821 - aged 55.  If this age at burial is correct then the tree I've had for a long time is completely wrong !!!
 ???
Sue


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Family History Beginners Board / Re: National Insurance/Tax Records
« on: Thursday 11 February 10 13:25 GMT (UK)  »
I have been wondering if I could access NI records. 

Alice Ann Heys had her daughter Annie at the Croydon Workhouse Infirmary in 1913.

The Workhouse papers show she used her NI contributions to pay for her confinement. She gives her NOK as her the brother who had been in London for the 1911 census, but states he was by then in Glasgow with the Scottish Rifles.  When she was discharged it was “to friends”.
   
Alice Ann had by then lost both her parents and her stepmother Emma Heys had gone back to her nursing profession to support herself and Alice Ann’s young half brother (who was sent back to her stepmother’s family in Somerset).

I haven’t been able to find a marriage/death for Alice Ann Heys nor for her daughter Annie Elizabeth Heys.  There are marriages/deaths but not in southern England but I suppose there is the possibility that Alice Ann went to her Heys Aunts and Uncles living in Rochdale but then it’s difficult to determine which Alice Ann might be ours as the spelling Heys is more frequent in Lancashire.

I have looked at the Scottish BMDs. 

I wondered if Alice Ann Heys's NI contributions/payments might have tracked her movements.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Cutler family from Portsmouth to Shoreditch - please help
« on: Thursday 11 February 10 00:09 GMT (UK)  »
Forgot to mention that although the eldest of James Henry Cutler and Mary Knight's children Frederick Henry Cutler was baptised at St Mary Magdalene's in 1848 their next five children were baptised together at St Dunstans and All Saints on 12 Dec 1860.  The family appear to use their middle names in the Census and for marriages.
The Baptisms give their birth dates as
20 March 1849   Eliza Emily
1 Jan 1851         Mary Louisa
3 July 1855        James George
5 May 1856        William Thomas
7 April 1859        Samuel Alfred

It is interesting that although the family moved north and south of the Thames they also moved to Gloucestershire with Eliza Emily born Clifton, Bristol and Mary Louisa born at Bristol St Pauls.

Sue

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Cutler family from Portsmouth to Shoreditch - please help
« on: Wednesday 10 February 10 23:50 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Valda :)  for answering so many Cutler and Knight questions.

My mother's grandmother was Ada Louisa Cutler daughter of James Henry and Sarah Cutler's son Frederick Henry Cutler and his wife Clara Louisa Dean.

We've been finding the Cutlers marriages and the families in the census are often indexed as Cutter because of the cross on the T extending to the L. 

It appears that James and Sarah Cutler had James Henry Cutler baptised late (20th May 1842) when he was about 19 or 20.  Their eldest children being baptised at St Matthews Bethnal Green and then the youngest three baptised together at St Mary Magdalene Bermondsey in 1837.  But then five days later (25th May 1842) they were back at the church having realised that they had forgotten Caroline Eliza (who was approx 20 in the 1841 census).  I had thought it was a mistake on the IGI but now its possible to see the registers on line at Ancestry I have checked - and they did go back.

There is the marriage of a James Cutler to a Sarah Stevens on Ancestry on the 13th September 1807 at St Mary's Islington.  This is the same date as James Henry Cutler and Mary Knight married 39 years later. The IGI has a Sarah Steven's baptised at Bethnal Green in Oct 1788 which is where Sarah said she was born in the 1851 Census.

Sue

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