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The Common Room / Re: Does anyone know of any current Ancestry special offers?
« on: Monday 02 March 26 16:37 GMT (UK)  »
Also, the DNA tests are currently £49 - normally £80 I think.  With the option of 3 months membership for an extra quid.

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The Common Room / Re: 1914 electoral register
« on: Friday 02 January 26 19:15 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks - actually quite simple!

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The Common Room / 1914 electoral register
« on: Friday 02 January 26 18:44 GMT (UK)  »
Could anyone explain the column headings for the attached picture. The 4th column is entitled "qualifying property"  In particular why is there two addresses given in the 1st line.

Also in the previous column it has "successive" in brackets

Thanks

Roger

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Armed Forces / Re: South Wales Borderers - Boer War
« on: Tuesday 02 December 25 12:57 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks again - now I have something to go on.  I've been interested in genealogy for may years and have researched a number of families, but for some reason I have hardly ever come across anyone in the military other than WW1 and WW2 so its good to get a couple of leads.

Roger

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Armed Forces / Re: South Wales Borderers - Boer War
« on: Monday 01 December 25 15:46 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the ideas everyone.  Regarding the Boer war, there is no evidence that he took part, I agree.  Its just that I could not identify him on the 1901 census so I suppose that I assumed that he may have still been in the army.

And as for WW1, I hadn't really considered it at all, due to his age (b.1871).  Also he is on the Gwent electoral registers for 1915 and 1918.  But I will investigate - just to satisfy myself.

Roger

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Armed Forces / South Wales Borderers - Boer War
« on: Monday 01 December 25 11:30 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know of any service records on line for this regiment for this period?

The person I am researching is Samuel Isaac Boulton who seems to have signed up in Jan 1894.  But I don't know how long he served for and if he took part in the Boer War.

He got married back in Wales in 1903 as a collier so he had obviously left the army by then.

Roger

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Europe / 17th century Hungary
« on: Tuesday 11 November 25 14:28 GMT (UK)  »
After many years of research I have traced numerous ancestors back to the 16th/17th/18th centuries and virtually all of the have emanated from a small band of counties from Middlesex/Sussex across to Somerset/Wiltshire.  No exotic ancestors - not even Scottish!

But I have finally come across a Mustapha Hassan who I believe may be an ancestor of mine and he shows up in a 1691 baptism in Westminster at the age of 19 and purporting to come from Buda.

So firstly does anyone know if there are any Hungarian records available for that time period or anything pertaining to the Ottoman Empire.

I have Googled and it seems that Buda was conquered by the Ottomans in the 1500s but they were driven out in 1686 in the Siege of Buda.  So it does seem feasible that Mustapha was maybe a muslim refugee from that conflict.  And on arrival in England converted to Christianity.

Has anyone else come across anything like this?

Roger

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The Common Room / Re: Orphan Book
« on: Monday 10 November 25 13:26 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Alan

That makes sense, but in that case, on the 5th orphan down, what would £6:344 represent?

Roger

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The Common Room / Orphan Book
« on: Monday 10 November 25 13:01 GMT (UK)  »
I have attached an extract from an Orphan Book from 1716 and I was wondering what the numbers were at the end of each line.  It looks like its a Pound Sign, but the numbers don't make any sense if its money.

Does anyone have any idea?

Roger

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