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Printer,

Have you heard of "Lowther's Lambs"?

They were the 11th, 12th and I believe 13th Battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment; they were raised by Col. Lowther (MP for Sussex), a total of around 3,000 men early in the war. They suffered very heavy casualties in a a stupid diversionary attack on July 1, 1916 at the beginning of the Battle of The Somme.

Your Alfred Lowther was possibly, very distantly related to the Lowther family; an on-line search will provide more info than I can.

Good Luck with your research,

LEST WE FORGET!

Webby,

I have the Standbinorth/Stanbinorth/Standbynorth line in my family tree.

My father was from Hastings and I have built my tree backwards to Gt-GT-Gt-grandfather from his info, and then via Ancestry further back.

My line is,
John Stanbinorth = Joan Ayte
1510-78
TO,
Henry Stanbinorth = Joan???
1538-90
TO,
Peter Stanbinorth = Joanna Rogerson
1579-1657
TO,
Richard Balle = Bridget Standbynorth
                         1610-45

and that is the last of my Standbynorth ancestors.

Because my tree is pretty much linear (direct descent), I have not recorded the various siblings/cousins along the STANB line, so cannot add anything more.

The given name Grimbolde is new to me, as is the Stammer/Stanmer derivation also.

Regards,

JMB

I have been told that regiments were moved away from their home areas to other parts of the country so that, in the event of public disorder, they would not be ordered to fire on their own kin.

Regards,
JMB

I have written tags for several people in my family tree.

Now find that I would like to make some edits; however, cannot find the appropriate "EDIT" command, and cannot just overwrite the edit.
What am I missing?

Regards,
JMB

ShaunJ,

You are both a scholar & a gentleman!

Again, many thanks for your help.

Regards,
JMB