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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Have I finally had a breakthrough?
« on: Sunday 23 February 25 13:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you so much everyone you’ve really opened this up for me! I really hope I hear from my ‘match’ this week as they seem to be quite active on Ancestry 🤞🏼 also I’ve had to contact Ancestry as I dont get any emails from them despite having all notifications etc on, the emails on my safe list, nothing in my junk mail etc… so I’ve requested my DNA download but nothing arrives, even a password reset email doesn’t arrive either so once that’s sorted I’ll be uploading to to GEDMatch soon too! I really do appreciate your insights thank you so much! I’ll keep you updated and if you find anything else please let me know!❤️

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Have I finally had a breakthrough?
« on: Saturday 22 February 25 15:17 GMT (UK)  »
Just wow!! You guys are amazing! So I’ve managed to get into deceased online and now have details of his cremation and know his final resting place, this is massive thank you!

And the details of Weymouth line up as I’ve also been researching there and it made sense with his rank! Where did you find the info on his marriage to Penny?

On the ‘tree’ associated with the dna match it shows a marriage/partnership with a ‘Nancy’ but no other details and I’ve been trying to find marriage details but haven’t had much luck but again I recognise that I’m a rookie at this 🤣 where as you guys are complete pros!

Massive respect and gratitude to you all!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Have I finally had a breakthrough?
« on: Saturday 22 February 25 10:06 GMT (UK)  »
Wow you guys are beyond helpful!! Thank you so much!

I’ve spent around 20 years fumbling along as a novice trying to find info on him so you can imagine why I’m a bit excited by this 🤣🤣

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Have I finally had a breakthrough?
« on: Saturday 22 February 25 08:57 GMT (UK)  »
Wow thank you Cas and Scotmum! You guys are amazing! I’ll definitely check the info out you have given me!

Scotmum do you have a link of where to pull up historical postings for that paper?

Thank you so much 🙏

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Family History Beginners Board / Have I finally had a breakthrough?
« on: Saturday 22 February 25 07:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hello, I’m trying not to get excited here but I’m hoping I’ve finally had a breakthrough, but my complete newbie status won’t let me get to emotionally attached just yet!

I previously posted a year or so ago about searching for my grandfather William Stanley Lloyd, who we had been told served in the Canadian Navy. For years I’ve been searching Canadian records as best I could access (again probably not that great as I am a true novice!) without success.

I previously did 23andMe with no leads and recently did an Ancestry DNA and got the result this week.

I’ve matched with someone, who had a grandmother with the surname Lloyd. I’ve so far had no luck with the name and when I opened her tree she had a brother William Stanley Lloyd and there is a photo of him in Naval attire 🤞🏼

Anyway I’ve messaged a few people connected to the tree but have yet to hear back and have kept things quite general as at this stage the birth of my mother may well be a skeleton in the closet so I’m mindful of this.

Anyway what else can I do to truly find out if this is finally him? I’m completely thrown by the fact this gentleman was in the UK but knowing my grandmother now believe Canada may have been a decoy for a relationship that was out of wedlock back in the 1940’s.  He was born in Hull 1918 and died in Loughborough 1993

I have managed to order his death certificate. I know from the letters we had that in 1946 he was on HMS Creole in Portsmouth and that he was a PO HSD (I think the HSD is something thing to do with submarines?

My mum was born in 1947. According to ancestry he was living in Weymouth in 1941 which I’m assuming was a navy posting at that time.

If anyone has any ideas, tips or advice I’d be gladly open to it and really hoping the mystery of my grandfather might be finally solved! He was know more informally as Stan on his letters and and I found and obituary for his father which refers to his son named Stanley.

I’ve ordered his death cert so I can hopefully access his records.

I share 2% dna with the living match on Ancestry and if its my grandfather he would be my matches Great Uncle.

If you’ve read this far thank you 🙏

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World War Two / Re: Seeking Navy Info Canada/UK Can You Help?
« on: Monday 12 August 24 07:57 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for your replies this far, I really do appreciate you taking the time to do this! With regards to my grandfather I have no further information.  He was not married to my grandmother, rather it was a wonderful relationship during 1945/46/47 where he knew my grandmother was expecting my mum and was very excited about it.  My grandmother passed away when I was a baby and so I was unable to ask her personally about it all.  What she did tell my mum is that he was posted back to Canada in 1947 and suddenly the communication stopped and she never heard from him again (that we know of).  I know it was of course a unique time and there are many 'war babies' as a result and I also am not naive to whether my grandfather had good intentions or not for the future with my mum.  But my grandmother was always insistent that a long term future had been planned for them as a family and his sudden disappearance was very out of the character she knew and loved.  His letters to her (of which we only now have a couple) are very beautifully written and to me show a relationship that was blossoming not temporary.  Anyway, I very much would like to uncover more about my grandfather so I can piece together the timeline of what might have happened to him, but I have no idea where in Canada he was from.  I did hire a 'geneology detective' a few years ago who hit a brick wall and have spent many years myself trying to track him down or information.  In the UK a lot of the WW2 records are not yet public and it Canada knowing what province would help a great deal! I have since found out from a navy friend that HSD might mean Higher Submarine Detector?

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World War Two / Seeking Navy Info Canada/UK Can You Help?
« on: Tuesday 06 August 24 13:22 BST (UK)  »
Hello!

I wonder if you can help! It's been like finding a needle in a haystack the last few years!  I am trying to locate details of my estranged Grandfather.

He served in the Canadian Navy and was posted in Portsmouth, UK in 1946 on HMS Creole.  His name was William Stanley Lloyd (on letters to my grandmother he uses the name Stan) After his name is has P.O H.S D

I can't find any info about ship other than where it was built and that it was sold abroad after it was decommissioned.

Within the letters is a photo of 'my youngest brother 'John'.  The name is in quotes as though it is a 'known as name' or middle name and he also served in the Canadian Navy HMCS)

I know many records aren't publicly available and of course I have limited information but I would dearly like to learn about him.  He disappeared quite out of character after the war and we have always worried that something happened to him but we have no idea where to start.

We've tried for years so if anyone has any pointers they will be gratefully received!

Thanks in advance!

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