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World War One / Re: "The Naval Flier"
« on: Thursday 30 March 17 14:27 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to everyone!  I have just been looking at the RNAS Navy records and they list a possible. That name is George Stephenson Borm Manchester July 1884
The one I am looking for is my grandfather George Burton Stephenson  From his birth cert. he was Born Barton upon Irwell nr Manchester 22/03/1887.
So I dont think thats the one
So I have a picture, a rank and a birth cert but I cant tie them together.. is that it?

Mike

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World War One / Re: Walter Mears in 1914
« on: Thursday 30 March 17 12:34 BST (UK)  »
As far as I know  16th October 1898. In Greenwich I think

I thought Middlesex Reg as well, but no mention of him on their site?

Mike

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World War One / "The Naval Flier"
« on: Thursday 30 March 17 11:52 BST (UK)  »
Attached is a pic of who, I think, is my paternal grandfather. It sits here in a faded silver plate frame.
Can anyone help with the cap badge- does it conflict with the flying wings. I have had it suggested that he may have been a petty officer attached to airships? Wing collars,, 1920's?

Can you help please?

Thanks also to Andy for kindly resizing the image

Mike

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World War One / Walter Mears in 1914
« on: Thursday 30 March 17 11:40 BST (UK)  »
Thats what it says on the back of the pic.
This chap is my maternal grandfather but I cannot trace any army record for him. He was a Londoner and  Corporal? (That's my guess never having been in the military) and the uniform looks new.
On my mother's birth certificate he was Walter Mears-Mears and his occupation was "Opera Singer" and I have another pic of him as a chauffeur, so he certainly got around!
Can you help?

Mike
 

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Image on glass but can you date this picture please?
« on: Wednesday 29 March 17 11:14 BST (UK)  »
Very Many thanks to everyone who has looked at  the pic and especially to all those who have done such clever work on it.
I have a couple of other picture questions  relating to uniforms but  cant get the pics down to within the file size limit.

Thanks Again

Mike Stephenson

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Image on glass but can you date this picture please?
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 21:59 BST (UK)  »
I hope that someone might be able to date this picture which I think is my great grandfather.
He was a pork butcher from Stretford nr Manchester
The picture is a positive on a piece of hexagonal glass obviously it was once in a frame.
Perhaps the technique or the clothing style will help
Thank you for looking
Mike

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Cork / Re: Mehigan gravestones in Cobh (Queenstown)?
« on: Thursday 23 March 17 10:46 GMT (UK)  »
In response to the above posting, we searched the Old Graveyard  and couldnt find my ancestor.
On  later visit we found the New cemetery, up behind the Cathedral area and there they were!
My great grandfather, Eugene Mehigan and Ellen (nee Edmonds) with a daughter Christina
If Bluetray should read this, then I have photos of the house in westview and of course the grave

Mike

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