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"In the East Riding many farming families, who were struggling with lack of labour, went to tribunal to try to get their sons exempted from service, though not always successfully."
See https://www.mylearning.org/stories/scheduled-occupations-during-the-first-world-war/770?

Stan

Thank you Stan. The family were in Worcestershire and I guess the same could be true.  I can't find any records for him but as a 30 year old single man just working on someone elses farm I can't see anything that set him apart from his neighbours

Quote from: MaxD on Wednesday 23 January 19 17:53 GMT (UK)

Don't think it was Claridges which is in Brook Street.  The Cavendish was/is at 81 Jermyn St.

MaxD

You are absolutely right, its me - I knew it was a "C"! Sorry!

In 1901 84 Jermyn Street was actually the Galatis Hotel but I think there was something on the internet search that they combined some smalled hotels

Do you have his death certificate? If so does it give a place of death (though probably a hospital)
He is hard to pin down in 1901 and variable spellings of his surname do nt help. Any idea if he got married?
Ancestry has London electoral rolls that he might be on but hard to know if its him.
Sometimes if people were in institutions around that time they are only enumerated with their initials.
Hope you solve the mystery
Cathy

Yes I have his death certificate which gives St Georges Hospital, Belgrave as where he died.  The informant was his brother and it gives the profession as Hotel Valet at 84 Jermyn St, St James.  which I believe became Claridges.  I have checked the census for his brothers address and the hotel in 1901 and he is not listed at those addresses as far as I can see. To the best of the information I can find I don't think he married but as he's gone from a tiny village in Herefordshire to the big house in Yorkshire and then to London, I guess he could of been anywhere

I have a relative born in 1866 in Edvin Loach in Herefordshire.  In 1891 he was serving as a Footman for Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire and he died of TB in London in 1907.  I can find no record of him on any 1901 census.  I did find some Royal Household records of someone serving in the Silver Pantry but the Royal Archives do not feel that this is our man as the dates don't tie up.

I have however found another Henry James Burbridge in the Anglo Boar War - 69 (Sussex) Company 7 Battalion Imperial Yeomanry service number 21232.  As the War covers the missing period, this could be him but I can't find any records on searches on Find my past or Ancestry.  Can these records be acquired from anywhere?

Can anyone suggest what else I can try to overcome a brick wall about a part of the family I asked about before.  I cannot get back from these records to a generation before.

I know that Henry Burbridge, a cordwainer, was born in Upper Sapey in Hereford circa 1794. He married Sarah Acton I believe 13 Dec 1817 Shelsley Beauchamp (and he may have married Sarah Clarke in 1827 at Kempsy, Worcester, although I think this is a different Henry in the second marriage).  The marriage records have very little information on them.  I believe that Sarah was born in Rowley Regis (Assume this is Sarah Acton) from later census, 1851 being the first one to list a place of birth.

I know from newspaper that Henry left his wife to the mercy of the Parish in 1826. The Parish poor records did not survive so I cannot check the application for assistance

I think Henry may have been the son of Thomas and Sarah Haydon who married in 1780

Henry's wife Sarah (either of them) I am struggling with

any suggestions what other records pre census I might look for?