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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Army record

« on: Friday 05 September 25 10:14 BST (UK) »

Many thanks all for your help. I am currenntly writing an account of Walter’s time in the army, as far as possible, given the general anonymity of the lower ranks in the army. 298 Brigade seems to have had a very active war, from Messines through to the Sambre, and Walter seems to have been very lucky, seeming not to have been wounded. If he was in England sick in November 1917, that seems to have been one of the few quieter times for the brigade. I think he was probably quite a good soldier, since he ended up acting corporal and was awarded a Belgian Croix de Guerre in 1919.

Dave

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Army record

« on: Friday 05 September 25 09:21 BST (UK) »

I would appreciate help with deciphering the writing at left in this extract from the record of a soldier in 298 Brigade Army Field Artillery. I can’t make out the letter in front of 298, or what is below it.

Dave

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The Common Room / Re: What happened to Mary Mitchell?

« on: Wednesday 26 March 25 18:50 GMT (UK) »

Thanks for your replies. I must say that I'd missed her being next door to Jacob Mitchell in 1881. In fact, although she was, it seems, at No.8 then, the census form suggests that she was under Jacob as head of household, so maybe his servant.

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The Common Room / What happened to Mary Mitchell?

« on: Wednesday 26 March 25 14:05 GMT (UK) »

I would appreciate help with a little puzzle. Mary Carter, widow (47) married widower Jacob Mitchell (60) in St Swithin's, Lincoln, in May 1881. In the 1891 Census, Jacob is described as a widower. The only death registration I can find in Lincoln for a Mary Carter is a lady who died in the December quarter of 1882, aged 56, which seems to rule her out.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Occupation (?) in marriage register

« on: Sunday 23 March 25 09:25 GMT (UK) »

Thanks all. I thought it read “servant man”, but it just seemed a bit odd. It seems to maybe suggest a manservant in a domestic setting, as opposed to an ag lab. OTOH, I don’t seem to see a big house in Manthorpe where he might have been employed.

Dave

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Occupation (?) in marriage register

« on: Sunday 23 March 25 08:41 GMT (UK) »

I would appreciate a second opinion on what looks to me like an occupation in a marriage register (Witham on the Hill, 1758). I think I know what it reads after “County of Lincoln” on, but it is a bit odd if so, because none of the other entries by the same curate gives an occupation for the groom, stating just “bachelor”.

Dave

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The Common Room / Re: George Humphreys, born in England c. 1909?

« on: Sunday 23 February 25 10:29 GMT (UK) »

Many thanks for all your help. It would seem that both George and Hetty’s families emigrated around the same time, but Hetty was brought to England very soon afterwards, where her father died in 1920, and her mother took her back to Canada shortly afterwards.

Dave

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The Common Room / George Humphreys, born in England c. 1909?

« on: Sunday 23 February 25 09:49 GMT (UK) »

I would aprreciate help with George Humphreys. He married Hetty Light in Toronto in 1932. According to the record, he was aged 23, and born in England. (Hetty was born in Ontario of English parentage. I have lots of info about her.)

The record states that George’s father was Alfred Humphreys, and his mother’s maiden name was Emily Owens. I can see an Emily Humphreys in 1911 in Church Stretton, who is married, and has a son George, whose age agrees. Also, suggestively, she has a son, Alfred. However, her husband was not present for the census.

I don’t know when George immigrated to Canada.

Dave

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World War Two / Re: Sergeant Pilot Harold Day grave

« on: Tuesday 18 February 25 21:00 GMT (UK) »

Many thanks both for your replies and solving this for me.

Dave

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