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Technical Help / Re: Ancestry Web site down? 20Oct25
« on: Monday 20 October 25 17:48 BST (UK)  »
I’ve been trying to use it at intervals all day, partially came back up across lunchtime/early afternoon, then got slower and slower and as of fifteen minutes ago disappeared completely.
They may be down while they clear the server side DNS cache but you can also clear the DNS cache on your own device which can help in these situations.

Edit. Still down for me 30 minutes later … so I’m guessing it’s not a simple reset post the AWS issue.

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Armed Forces / Re: 59th Regiment of Foot Service Records?
« on: Monday 07 July 25 00:19 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: MollyC on Saturday 05 July 25 19:32 BST (UK)
The Norton in Derbyshire is much closer to Laughton en le Morthen …

Thank you so much for all the info. re. Norton Molly, it’s really helpful.

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Armed Forces / Re: 59th Regiment of Foot Service Records?
« on: Monday 07 July 25 00:16 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ShaunJ on Saturday 05 July 25 11:36 BST (UK)
This should be of interest …

Shaun, thank you so so much for all this information! I had spotted a couple of the links you’ve shared but I’d ignored them as I was convinced my guy came from London as per his 1851 and 1861 census returns. Now I’m thinking maybe the census enumerator heard London for Laughton because everything else sure fits.

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Armed Forces / Re: 59th Regiment of Foot Service Records?
« on: Saturday 05 July 25 10:32 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ShaunJ on Saturday 05 July 25 09:31 BST (UK)
He was awarded the Peninsular War medal with clasps for Nivelle and Nive (if it's the right George Parker!

Thank you for this. The dates and rank look right (his pension was awarded in 1816) and so far I’ve only come across one George Parker in the 59th at this time so I think it’s reasonable to assume this is my guy.

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Armed Forces / 59th Regiment of Foot Service Records?
« on: Saturday 05 July 25 00:50 BST (UK)  »
My 4x great grandfather George Parker, b. London, Middx., abt. 1789, f. John Parker, was, according to censuses and his death certificate, a Chelsea Pensioner (Out) who had served as a Private with the 59th Foot. To date the only two military records I’ve turned up for him (on Ancestry) relate to pension dates and payments. Is anyone able to help me find any service records for him please.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Alfred Parker b. 1898 Barnsley
« on: Saturday 10 May 25 11:41 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: heywood on Saturday 10 May 25 11:08 BST (UK)
His marriage banns show  his residence as the parish of Cantley.

His marriage shows his residence as Small Bridge Bar, Cantley.
His father as John Parker, miner and a witness is John Parker.

Yes, but unfortunately when it comes to the censuses he’s at none of the addresses on any of the records I can find, nor for that matter are any other Parkers. He almost seems to appear out of nowhere when he is invalided out of the Reserve Labour Corps in 1917 due to eyesight issues.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Alfred Parker b. 1898 Barnsley
« on: Saturday 10 May 25 10:32 BST (UK)  »
Posting in the hope someone else may be able to help me find out more about Alfred.

I can find Alfred Parker at 3 Violet Street, Halifax in the 1939 Register, which gives his date of birth as 2 Oct 1898. I can find him in the 1921 census returns which give his address as Whitehall Yard, Hipperholme (between Halifax and Brighouse) and his place of birth as Barnsley (as do his UK military records). And I can find his marriage record - he married Marie Edith Isabella Bellinger in Lightcliffe (also between Halifax and Brighouse) in 1918. Both his marriage record and his military records have his father’s name as John Parker. But despite knowing his date and place of birth and his father’s name I can’t find Alfred in the 1901 or 1911 census, I can’t find his birth record or any baptism record and I can’t discover who his mother was.

Any and all help tracking Alfred and his parents down would be most gratefully received.

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Technical Help / Re: Weird problem with Ancestry membership … anyone else?
« on: Thursday 20 March 25 22:46 GMT (UK)  »
I just wanted to add that I have now been able to, in Ancestry’s terminology, upgrade my cancelled account  … it’s now back to being a Full Access account, just as it has been for years. I still can’t update payment card information on my profile but I have been able to set up payments using PayPal. The person I spoke to earlier told me that this was not an option when I suggested to her that it might be a solution and instead cancelled my account because she couldn’t fix the card payments glitch. Ironically the cancellation was what brought up the PayPal option. That said, beware the Ancestry telephone helpline!

I really would be interested to know if anyone else has had similar issues … I’m struggling to believe just one account would be affected by this, it feels like a software glitch at Ancestry’s end to me.

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Technical Help / Re: Weird problem with Ancestry membership … anyone else?
« on: Thursday 20 March 25 22:29 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: bikermickau on Thursday 20 March 25 20:21 GMT (UK)
Call Ancestry again and if the person can't/won't help then ask to speak to their supervisor.

I don't think your account should have been cancelled!

Mick
Thanks Mick, and I agree, it just all seems really odd to me

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