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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: driscoll/Paul family of poplar, middlesex
« on: Sunday 18 July 21 22:19 BST (UK)  »
I can ‘own’ the Ellen and Thomas Driscoll aged 40 and 30 in the 1841 census. Thomas’s age is wrong or the census writer’s hearing was bad but Thomas’s DOB is 1783 in Bandon near Cork in Ireland. Ellen was also born in Ireland, possibly Cork area, and I think she was his second wife as she was born abt 1813 so 30 years younger than him. They lived in Hoxton market area and Thomas had been invalided out of the army as he suffered life changing injuries.  He fought in the Peninsular Wars and also in India. He was a foot soldier and I think he had a first wife and 2 children from his army records on Ancestry who possibly went back to Ireland but I cannot trace them. Hope this helps.

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Middlesbrough, Whitby and Guisborough people search.
« on: Tuesday 22 June 21 21:05 BST (UK)  »
Richard King Chambers was my maternal uncle and was born in Whitby on 10 April 1927 to Elizabeth Walker from Stockton on Tees who had married Richard King Chambers who was born in Whitby in 1902.  Richard King Chambers Jr was a very successful footballer and enjoyed playing for the Royal Navy when he was called up to do his National Service.  He was scouted by many top football teams including Man U, Middlesbrough and Newcastle but unfortunately his father put his foot down and said not to sign to any club as, in the 1940s and 1950s, if you had a serious injury, your footballing career was over.  Dickie, as we called him, had a secure job working in Whitby Post Office at that time so, begrudgingly, he followed his father's advice and never signed professionally.  A great shame as he was an extremely gifted player who always hankered after his former playing day.   He died in 1985 in Whitby, several years after suffering a crippling stroke.

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