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Westmorland / Re: Longsleddale families
« on: Sunday 21 February 10 19:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for all that info - oops don't know how to do personal message - ..... Thomas had a son John so makes sense these names keep coming up

thanks

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Westmorland / Re: Longsleddale families
« on: Sunday 21 February 10 18:52 GMT (UK)  »
post away!

so kind of you - we're coming anyway - my dear father is very excited and will want to visit 'the spot' anyway - he spent a lot of his childhood in the Lakes walking and climbing but until now has had little if any info on his ancestors...


thanks
so much

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Westmorland / Re: Longsleddale families
« on: Sunday 21 February 10 18:26 GMT (UK)  »
gosh - thanks! the more i look the more i realise speling mistakes and roundings of ages are rife! I wont be able to come up to Longsleddale myself with my father until June to look in the church so anything at all would be so graeatfully received

Ben

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Westmorland / Re: Longsleddale families
« on: Sunday 21 February 10 15:56 GMT (UK)  »
Not for certain - I got his birth info from Coldstream Guards - he was born in Longsleddale Jan 1823 and I have tracked down what I think is him in later life in London but no records of any siblings - just a potential father called Thomas who was a farmer. My Thomas had occupation of agricultural labourer when he signed up. We know he fought in crimea, his son John joined Kings Own Royal Lancs circa 1888 and left in 1909. Have recently found out he had his son George in Ahmednagar India in 1892...they all moved around a lot with the army!

thanks


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Westmorland / Re: Longsleddale families
« on: Tuesday 16 February 10 22:19 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

I'm new and looking for info on Thomas Kellett, born Jan 1823 Longsleddale who was a labourer then joined the Coldstream Guards in 1843, serving in Crimean War. They tell me he was a labourer before enlisting. He had a son called John Kellett who fought in the Kings Own Royal Lancs 1888 - 1909 in South Africa...who had a son called George who was also in KORLR during WW1. George married Florence Gertrude Helme (daughter of Robert Newton Helme) in 1921...George is my grandfather and is proving very elusive!

Thanks so much

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