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Suffolk / Sproughton
« on: Sunday 21 February 16 17:52 GMT (UK)  »
I am looking at some 1911 census records that lists my family as living in Upper Street Sproughton. I cannot find an Upper Street although in a previous census they were living in Lower Street. Could it be that Upper Street was just a designation for part of Lower Street. I have a feeling this question has cropped up before and I am just having a senior moment here. - Any advice would be appreciated.

Dai

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The Common Room / Re: Thrapptenure
« on: Wednesday 15 April 15 22:08 BST (UK)  »
I think you might be right I found this document from the 1500's
https://books.google.com/books?id=B7o4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA678&lpg=PA678&dq=Thapp&source=bl&ots=EARItv1aZI&sig=EO5rKF3VmQDmh8G8QjzpdUxxwAY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=N9EuVfqmF4qiNu26gfgM&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Thapp&f=false
 with the word thapptenences all over the place.  The word appurtenances appears often in my document - thanks for the heads up

Dai

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The Common Room / Re: Thrapptenure
« on: Wednesday 15 April 15 21:39 BST (UK)  »
Thanks - I was also wrong, there is no R it is Thapptenure - in my context it reads - my messuage, lands, tenements and herediments with thapptenure as well freeholds as copyhold scituate - 

I did find this one reference on the web - one tenement with thapptenure upon castle ditch to have to hold the said. -

I guess I will have to accept it for what it is

Dai

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The Common Room / Thrapptenure
« on: Wednesday 15 April 15 21:12 BST (UK)  »
I wonder if anyone can help. I am transcribing a will dated 1607 as part of a family project and on two occasions it refers to a Thrapptenure as a form of landlease or copyhold.  I spend a long while searching on the web  without success. I think it was an archaic term even in 1607 when almost all land was then held by copyhold.

Does any one have any ideas.

Dai

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Suffolk / Re: Suffolk Regiment 12th Foot
« on: Friday 08 August 14 19:45 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the tip - I have googled them and bookmarked the site. It looks like their archives on individual soldiers, pay etc. are with the Suffolk Records Office. I will try contacting the museum. Visiting is a bit difficult for me as I live here in Wisconsin  USA but I will make a point of looking it up when next in the UK.  We usually spend some days in Suffolk when we are over there.
Thanks again for the heads up.

Dai

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Suffolk / The Hintlesham Pound
« on: Sunday 03 August 14 18:07 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone know where the Hintlesham pound was located in 1911 - I have some family members who are listed as living near the pound and would like to find what cottages they might be - Dave

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Suffolk / Suffolk Regiment 12th Foot
« on: Tuesday 27 May 14 19:41 BST (UK)  »
A while since I posted here. I have a question. I have an ancestor whose husband served in the !12th foot. Actually the Duke of Norfolk's regiment at the time. I am trying to find out what sort of stipend if any she received while her husband was  away. He was in the siege of Gibraltar and gone at least 5 years. does anyone have any idea what wives received in these circumstances, if anything.
Dai

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Suffolk / Re: Territorial Service between the wars
« on: Tuesday 17 April 12 18:12 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for the prompt reply.
Now it begins to make sense. he had a large family (14 children) and those still surviving cannot remember him ever having a civilian job. In his note on recall at the outbreak of war he does say he was recalled back to his regular unit which  seems to  suport your comments that he never really left the army.


He spent the first part of the war training RA signallers and then travelled the country training the Home Guard and also, strangely, women to wortk on switchboards.

Thanks for your insight and help.

Dai

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Suffolk / Territorial Service between the wars
« on: Tuesday 17 April 12 17:12 BST (UK)  »
This may not be the right forum but I was wondering if anyone here has information on the Territorials, now the TA between the wars. I have a relative  who after a long caree in the Royal Artillery retired  and became as he calls it a Territorial. In the RA he had been a signal instructor.

In  a few notes he left he records that
"I was sent to 64 Brigade Territorials as (PSI) as a regular Instructor for three years.  After three years I was awarded the Dartmouth Cup as my 64 BDE TER had the highest number of signallers pass out of the whole of the Territorial Army.”
I always thought that Territorials were only part time but as I can find no trace of a civilian occupation and given his note it seems he was a full time instructor.

Shortly after this at the outbreak of war he was taken back into the Regular Army as a PSI

I would appreciate any comments.

Dai

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