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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: "Dent, Allcroft and Co" Glovemakers: 96, Wood St in 1898 - COMPLETED
« on: Saturday 22 January 11 18:45 GMT (UK)  »
I've been doing my family history and one distant relation was in service in Claines, Worcester, with Martha Williams, a widow living with a young son. Ten years earlier, in 1871, Martha's husband Joseph was still around and described as a glove manufacturer employing hundreds of staff. I can't find out anything about him, and understand he'd have servants in his house, but for Martha to still have one after his death is odd (she is described then as a 'wooden box maker' so must have fallen on hard times).

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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: John Parker
« on: Wednesday 29 December 10 18:28 GMT (UK)  »
Froombridge (now spelled Fromebridge) is a collection of homes near Fromebridge Mill, formerly a working mill with mention in the Domesday Book. Several inhabitants of Fromebridge were mill workers of one sort or another. It's suggested on the British History Online site that the cottages were built for mill workers, but there are also two farms nearby and farm labourer was the most frequent occupation quoted.
Frederick Parker doesn't appear in the Fromebridge lists in 1871 or 1891.

The cottages were meagre, two up-two down at most, some one up-one down.

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Armed Forces / Re: William Alford Murphy
« on: Sunday 03 October 10 19:02 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for everyone's help. William Alfred Murphy (my great great uncle) was a labourer in Bristol then signed up for the Royal Artillery in April 1894. He served in S. Africa from May 1897 to June 1900, returned to the UK and died two years later from 'valvular disease of the heart' (possibly something picked up in SA) at the age of 25.

It was his father who was named as 'William Alford Murphy' on his son's (William's brother's) wedding certificate, though he had died when both were small boys. I thought the medal was his (he was an army sergeant) but I was wrong

Thanks again

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Armed Forces / Re: William Alford Murphy
« on: Friday 24 September 10 21:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: gortonboy on Friday 24 September 10 18:54 BST (UK)
Murphy W 3466 Driver QSA (2)
Source: Provisional list of QSAs with the clasp Talana     69th Battery, RFA

so,,,looks like he was a driver in the royal field artillery  ;)

What is the exact source?

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Armed Forces / Re: William Alford Murphy
« on: Friday 24 September 10 20:05 BST (UK)  »
Brilliant, many thanks all. Great Uncle assumed DR was dispatch rider, and Forces reunited has a WA Murphy there who was a scout (similar to dispatch rider?) but it could well mean driver.

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Armed Forces / William Alford Murphy
« on: Friday 24 September 10 14:46 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I am trying to get any information I can on my G-G grandfather, named above. He fought in the Boer War as a dispatch rider, and was a sergeant. He was involved in the battle/relief of Ladysmith (?). My great uncle has a medal of his, with '3466DR' on, 'Talana' and '6918R'

All this comes from his son's wedding certificate and the medal itself. I have no idea as to his origin, the name suggests he was in an Irish regiment. He was dead when his son married, around 1908.

Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.

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