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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: what's this please
« on: Saturday 31 March 12 20:49 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: jackski on Monday 26 March 12 17:41 BST (UK)
Yes he was . He was Lt col OS dept. The other men on the same page have occupations such as "Carpenter OS dept" and "foreman of magazines os dept"
I wonder if he was working for the Ordnance Survey in Southampton? This was run by the Army and OS is often used as the abbreviation for the Ordnance Survey. Following a fire at the Tower of London in 1841, the OS moved to Southampton and is now in its third different home in the city at Adanac Park,


David

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Unwanted Birth, Marriage, Death Certs H to M / Re: Birth - Jane Miller - Jun 1844 - GRO Vol 25 Page 328 - Newcastle Upon Tyne
« on: Wednesday 30 November 11 10:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Rosie - no I hadn't thought of that. I'll do it today for both certificates
Thanks for the idea

David

Postems added to both records

David

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Unwanted Birth, Marriage, Death Certs H to M / Birth - Jane Miller - Jun 1844 - GRO Vol 25 Page 366 - Newcastle Upon Tyne
« on: Tuesday 29 November 11 21:42 GMT (UK)  »
Jane Miller born on 2nd June 1844 in Newcastle Upon Tyne

Father - Thomas Miller (Joiner)
Mother - Jane (formerly Hudson)

GRO Vol 25, Page 366

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Unwanted Birth, Marriage, Death Certs H to M / Birth - Jane Miller - Jun 1844 - GRO Vol 25 Page 328 - Newcastle Upon Tyne
« on: Tuesday 29 November 11 21:39 GMT (UK)  »
Jane Miller born on 20th June 1844 in Newcastle Upon Tyne

Father - Thomas Miller (Cordwainer)
Mother - Margaret (formerly Kirk)

GRO Vol 25, Page 328

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Descendents of John Le Gresley and Edith Silvester Hooker
« on: Saturday 05 November 11 21:10 GMT (UK)  »
Hello, I am trying to find if I have any relatives still living on Jersey.
The last three descendents that I know about (in a letter dated 1993) were Audrey Patricia *, Gwendoline May *l and Patricia *.
I have not been able to trace these 3 ladies but the names are their maiden names.
If you are a descendent or have any information on these cousins of mine then I would be very pleased to hear from you.

Yours hopefully
David Ward

* see next reply

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Armed Forces / Re: Trying to trace James Wright - RAMC WW1
« on: Tuesday 05 April 11 13:43 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Ady, that's an interesting suggestion.

Looking at the 16th (Irish) Division in your link shows that there were 6 Field Ambulance units and 1 Sanitary unit attached to the Division.
To my knowledge he had no Irish connection - born in Hampshire, father and mother from Staffordshire but father did take the family around Dorset, places in Hampshire and then back to Staffordshire, following his "trades" of brickmaking / mining.

It would seem that the 16th Irish ran out of people so he was probably just "assigned" in true Army fashion.

Thanks David

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Armed Forces / Re: Trying to trace James Wright - RAMC WW1
« on: Monday 04 April 11 18:10 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: neil1821 on Monday 21 March 11 23:21 GMT (UK)
Any other clues in the photo, ie rank or other insignia?

I obviously hadn't looked closely enough at the picture (I thought I knew it well!)

There is what looks like a clover leaf on his left arm - does anyone know the significance of this please?

David

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Armed Forces / Re: Trying to trace James Wright - RAMC WW1
« on: Saturday 02 April 11 20:42 BST (UK)  »
Hi Pat,

sadly my grandfather is just James Wright and that makes him much harder to pinpoint.

Ady, I will look through the newspapers though that will be a long slow process

Thanks to you both for offering ideas

David


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Armed Forces / Re: Trying to trace James Wright - RAMC WW1
« on: Thursday 31 March 11 10:45 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again Pat for the information.
At the time of the 1914 birth (3rd May) he was not in the RAMC, he was definitely working for the Prudential Assurance Company - I have a newspaper cutting announcing the birth and giving the father's details.

I also have a small book of poetry written by his sister in law in 1915 and one of the poems says "Daddy's gone to nurse the soldiers, What he calls the R.A.M.C." Later this poem talks about "Baby Jim & me" (me is my mother) so I think it reasonable to assume that he joined in 1914 or early 1915.  This also reinforces one of the golden rules - if only I'd asked my mother about it when she was alive!

I only live 6 miles from the Record Office so it is very easy to get there and finally, another new forum for me to explore, The GW one - that looks like another treasure trove.

Thank you very much Pat

David



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