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The Common Room / Re: M.B.E. When was it awarded? Gazette Search so far fruitless
« on: Tuesday 27 August 24 17:58 BST (UK)  »
Amazing! Thank you very much to you all for solving this for me!  :D :D :D :D

I have just registered for the account on the National Archives site and will download the document. I will also have a go at finding it in the Gazette for 1948.

I feel the Family Tree bug biting me again ....  ;)

Kindest regards
Helen

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The Common Room / M.B.E. When was it awarded? Gazette Search so far fruitless
« on: Tuesday 27 August 24 14:16 BST (UK)  »
After a long break from any research, someone asked me to 'do a tree' on Ancestry and I lit up with enthusiasm.  Having put together a fair old number of branches, I then discovered the person's great uncle was an M.B.E.  Not having researched any M.B.E.s to date, I thought it would be pretty easy to find out when it was awarded. W-R-O-N-G!

It may just be me but I am struggling with the search engine on the Gazette. I have tried downloading the PDFs and still can't find the gentleman even though I am pretty sure he was one of the many servicemen in the 1946 post-WW2 lists.

If anyone can offer any insight or searching tips for the Gazette, I would be most grateful.  I have watched the Gazette's 2-minute help video and it didn't ... help, that is.

Here are the details of the gentleman I am researching:

Ronald James Read
Birth Date   18 Dec 1905 Winterslow, Wiltshire
Death Date   17 Jan 1950

Rank   Warrant Officer - RSM - regimental sergeant-major
Regiment   4 HUSSARS
Cemetery   Batu Gajah Christian Cemetery
Grave Number   420

I have included a newspaper cutting announcing his death and it mentions the M.B.E. I hope it is readable.
Many thanks
Helen



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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Tracking down William Frederick Trotter Smith b1901 Gateshead
« on: Tuesday 23 July 19 22:38 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your post.

Yes - Mary Smith was the informant and the address is 228 Westbourne Avenue. I think 6 weeks is the limit for registration of the birth so it was just within the frame.

Just had a look at the 1911 Census for May Brown and I think you could be right.  One heck of a coincidence, if not!  I am hoping some DNA matches on Ancestry will shed more light but there is so much subterfuge that proving hypotheses is going to be tricky. Still, who doesn't love a puzzle?  ;)




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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Tracking down William Frederick Trotter Smith b1901 Gateshead
« on: Tuesday 23 July 19 18:15 BST (UK)  »
After a long break, I am back on the trail of WFTS.
Birth certificate obtained. Born 2 March 1901. Birth registered 12th April 1901. Mother - Mary Smith, a barmaid.  Address: 228 Westbourne Avenue, Gateshead.

Census was on 31 March at 228 Westbourne Avenue:
1) May Brown, Widow, on the census is actually Mary Smith and told a lie and didn't list the baby
2) May Brown, sheltered 'fellow' barmaid Mary Smith in distress and her baby and lied on the census or they were out on the night of the census
3) Mary Smith moved in with fellow barmaid after the census but where was she on the night of the census with her baby?


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Lanarkshire / Re: Finding 'Poor Wee Nan': Annie Moffat 1916-1923 Glasgow
« on: Tuesday 04 June 19 18:33 BST (UK)  »
We found her in the Sandymount Cemetery in Shettleston, Glasgow. It was a wonderful feeling and very emotional too. The main headstone had fallen and was buried under a thatch of moss that peeled away easily. Her name was engraved on the plinth on which it had previously stood. We hope to renovate it.

Glasgow City Council were tremendously helpful and even arranged for someone to come out and unlock the other possibility, Shettleston Old Cemetery. We went in there and it was very small but fascinating. Some very old headstones and a fox had evidently dug down and dragged up a very yellow thigh bone!!!  :o

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Dorset Lookup Requests / Re: Ada Louisa Skinner completely missing after her marriage in 1892
« on: Thursday 06 December 18 19:50 GMT (UK)  »
This is becoming more and more curious. It had crossed my mind that Francesco, Ada Louisa and Sarah Sophia were not necessarily being honest about their various marital statuses AND years of birth do also seem to vary.  Perhaps this was something that was commonly done when one ran off to the USA!!!

The coincidence of the mother being Rosa Bencone is just about to blow my mind.  I have a Rosa Bancone on my list of possible links to Francesco!  Going to try to correlate dates.....

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Dorset Lookup Requests / Re: Ada Louisa Skinner completely missing after her marriage in 1892
« on: Thursday 06 December 18 19:12 GMT (UK)  »
Amazing results - thank you, everyone  :D

Just wondering though, could the US records be wrong as her father was born in Newfoundland rather than England? Perhaps she herself didn't know this fact?

I can't find Vincent Pent in the UK BMD - Pent is not a common English name so it should show up.  1930 US Census has a Vincent Pent born in Illinois with parents from Italy so perhaps his name has been anglicised.  Daughter living with him born c.1911 - was this the daughter he had with Ada Louisa?  He is now married to a younger woman and has more children with her.

I also need to work out how to discover what happened regarding her marriage to Francesco Bancone.  Was it annulled?  Did they divorce?  Nothing showing up on the UK records I can see via Ancestry....yet  :)

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Dorset Lookup Requests / Ada Louisa Skinner completely missing after her marriage in 1892
« on: Thursday 06 December 18 13:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

I am on the hunt for what happened to Ada Louisa Skinner born in Poole, Dorset in 1868, daughter of Abel Skinner (merchant seaman) and Mary Ann Skinner.

I have her marriage certificate (copy) from 1892 to Francesco Bancone (he is the relative I am interested in) but she completely disappears after this and I cannot find any record of her.  He goes on to have a relationship and children with Sarah Sophia Lanham but still lists himself as 'married' and has 19 complete years of marriage on 1911 Census.

There are many mysteries to do with this man (a musician from Naples) and I am keen to find out what became of his wife.

Any assistance is most welcome.

Thank you

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Dorset Lookup Requests / Re: bANCONE
« on: Thursday 06 December 18 13:48 GMT (UK)  »
Hello!
I have just discovered your post from way back in 2011 regarding Francesco Bancone.  I am researching him too and I have some information that may be of interest to you regarding his marriage as I have a copy of the certificate.  It was not to Louisa Fry but to Ada Louisa Skinner.  He is described on it as a 'musician'. One of the witnesses is her sister, Jessie Elizabeth Skinner and the other is another musician called John Dinnivan.  Francesco's father is listed as Giuseppe Bancone (deceased) of Italy, a master carpenter and joiner.  What happens to her after that is a complete mystery as he is in residence with Sarah Lanham soon afterwards and busy producing lots of little Bancone Lanhams.

DNA has also given me links to many other Italian families who emigrated to the USA.  I am in contact with them and more facts are coming to light.  Another branch of Francesco's family through his youngest daughter, are in Australia and I have more information from them too.

Please get in touch if you would like to pool our facts and discoveries and I can explain my connection in more detail.

Kind regards

Helen

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