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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Please help me find my great great grandmother!
« on: Saturday 22 March 25 15:35 GMT (UK)  »
Is Horence actually Florence?

I've corrected instances where a transcription had Horence but the original clearly shows Florence.

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Travelling People / Re: Lock/Locke/Taylor
« on: Thursday 13 March 25 16:25 GMT (UK)  »
The book "The Family Tree of Matthew and Merrick Lock" has about ten pages on the children of Matthew and Remembrance.

It shows Ezekiel bap Thornbury 30/10/83 and Amy bap Worfield 15/9/41

The book was published in 2016 and other data may have become available since then which could affect the interpretation of the data.

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Travelling People / Re: Do any of these surnames belong to the GRT community?
« on: Sunday 02 February 25 15:00 GMT (UK)  »
my father's side of the family only goes as far back as my grandfather who I don't even where he was born or his parent's names.

I'm not clear from what you've said, whether paternal grandfather is dead or alive.

If he's dead you can find out his age from his death registration. Then you can look for his birth on the BMDs - either on the GRO website or on FreeBMD.

You can also find the marriage of him and your paternal grandmother, the marriage cert should tell you the name and occupation of his father.

If he's dead and was alive in 1939 you should be able to find him on the 1939 Register.


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Travelling People / Re: Do any of these surnames belong to the GRT community?
« on: Tuesday 28 January 25 17:10 GMT (UK)  »
The connection may be many generations ago.

You need to work backwards doing your tree (include the siblings of your direct ancestors as they can sometimes provide useful clues) and if you find any of your wider family say for example in tents or caravans or with typical occupations such as hawker or travelling knife grinder on the Census then you can start looking at that wider family.

You might find it useful to read "My Ancestors were Gypsies" by Sharon Sillers Floate - a library may have a copy or be able to get one for you to borrow.




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Travelling People / Re: Do any of these surnames belong to the GRT community?
« on: Tuesday 28 January 25 16:47 GMT (UK)  »
What context do you have them in that makes you think they do?

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Armed Forces / Re: Posted to Durham mines 1917
« on: Tuesday 07 January 25 08:38 GMT (UK)  »
Thank all you for the extra information.

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Armed Forces / Re: Posted to Durham mines 1917
« on: Monday 06 January 25 09:33 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks,

I don't think electrician was a reserved occupation so Jebber's comment appears to be the reason.

As someone with no background of mining it must have been an alien world to him.

Is anyone aware of anything that has been written about the experience of these non-miners who were sent to work in the Durham coalmines?

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Armed Forces / Posted to Durham mines 1917
« on: Sunday 05 January 25 15:07 GMT (UK)  »
My grandfather Arthur William Sutton (1888-1962) married his fiance in November 1914 and went off to serve in France. He had been in the Territorials I think before the war.

Another family member has seen his service records and we already knew from what AWS had said about the Great War that when he was back home on leave in 1917 he was told that he was now being posted to the mines in Durham rather than back to the front.

As so many miners had joined up there was a shortage in the mines but we assume that AWS was sent there because of his occupation - he was an electrician, working in the railway works both before and after the war - there presumably not being many electricians available in 1917 to work in the mines.

He does appear to have had home leave during the period from 1917 until he is demobbed as his second child is born in June 1919.

He always said that he found working in the mines far worse than being in the trenches.

Please can anyone point me at any information about why men who were fit to fight being posted to the mines rather than to the front? Or any other info that might be useful.

Thanks and apologies if I've asked this before - I don't think I have!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Grandfather
« on: Thursday 02 January 25 14:44 GMT (UK)  »
Tony, is there a family history society anywhere near where you live? or a U3A family history group?

I think you would find out so much more about how to go about doing your tree if you were to talk to other family historians - we all had to start from scratch and build up our knowledge as we went along, which is why we tend, as a community on places such as here, to be happy to help others.

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