Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - sorrel45

Pages: [1]
1
Kent / Re: sandwich marriage?
« on: Wednesday 28 December 16 12:44 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Mick - interesting stuff.

My wife is descended from Bessie Glessing, who after much investigation I discovered calls herself "Bessie Glessing", "Bessie Irvine" and sometimes "Bessie Glessing Irvine" - which makes working out who she is and where quite difficult - though I know she ends up in Ringmer in East Sussex.

2
Kent / Re: sandwich marriage?
« on: Wednesday 28 December 16 09:44 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, that's the one. Worthing is right place to end up - somewhere I've got a clip of a newspaper article that says some of those things about him (most of which I'm sure are not true).

My mother in law had heard all the stories of him being an instrument maker, so I would guess the tennis racquet idea falls in line with that. He also claimed to be the son of Wellington - the sort of claim that fitted in with all his other stories.

3
Kent / Re: sandwich marriage?
« on: Saturday 13 August 16 21:47 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: mickmack1942 on Thursday 05 May 11 09:23 BST (UK)
I am looking for a marr between a ....
   
   Henry Thompson Irvine......(51c)  aged   22   of london city birth
   Sarah Hudson                     (51c)  aged  25  sandwich

   no known parent for henry.    sarahs father charles hudson.
   in the 51c they were proporting to be marr, might have put a general call for east
   kent and hopefully somebody might spot it......mick

Did you ever get any more information on Henry? He's my wife's great * 2 Grandfather and it's been rather difficult to find out the truth from the tall stories with him.

4
Lancashire / Re: One for Liverpool Annie Part 2
« on: Saturday 13 August 16 21:41 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: liverpool annie on Tuesday 08 April 08 05:06 BST (UK)


Thanks to Tisgrannie .... I have become acquainted with a poignant blog ........ !

And although this isn't "the Charge " ... I'd like to include this here !

In Gosforth church there is a large marble plaque describing the death of Captain Charles Allan Parker, Royal Marines, who was killed during during the Crimean War (1853-56) fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, Turkey, France & Sardinia. Though the principal and most memorable events of this absurd & tragic conflict took place on the Crimean Peninsula on the north coast of the Black Sea, most famously the charge of the Light Brigade, there were other less well known encounters, principally naval actions aimed at disrupting Russia's Far Eastern trade routes. One was at Kamtschatka (Kamchatka) on Russia's Pacific seaboard.

http://cumbrianwarmemorials.blogspot.com/search/label/Crimea

My great * 3 grandfather! Glad to see he's not forgotten...

Pages: [1]