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World War Two / Yorkshire air raid may 1941 - meeson and others

« on: Sunday 19 May 13 19:11 BST (UK) »

Trying to trace family members of airmen and volunteers killed in a raid on an airfield in Yorkshire 12 may 1941. Before I go any further is anyone able to say how you would find family members without access to military records. Two of the men were george balmorth from county mayo and hector meeson. One of the descendants of an airman had notification of a new memorial and other descendants are sought.

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Essex / Re: Joslin Heybridge

« on: Sunday 30 January 11 16:51 GMT (UK) »

Thanks both, I actually have the mortgage document between Hannah Ruggles and Emma Joslin, so I know the details there. Henry did leave a will and I am going to try and get hold of a copy, I was just trying to do a little detective work beforehand. Its obvious from family documents that we had property once and I can only guess that, because Emma died before the loan was repaid and the children were split up, that the property etc went over to Hannah and there was nothing left to provide for the children.

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Essex / Joslin Heybridge

« on: Saturday 22 January 11 12:16 GMT (UK) »

I'm trying to find out what happened to Emma Joslin, widow of Henry, who died in March 1874. She had mortgaged all her property to a Hannah Ruggles in October 1873 and had six months to repay (at double the loan, £400). A relation has said she drowned but I'm not sure where they got that from, she left 7 children who then appear to have been split up and sent to various relations. Curious to know whether there are any old newspaper reports etc around or any relations out there who could shed some light.

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Essex Lookup Requests / Re: Joslin in G Waltham and Joslin/Marthams/Wallis in Heybridge

« on: Friday 05 November 10 12:22 GMT (UK) »

Hi Sally,

Did you ever find any details for Thomas Joslin and Ann Wallis, I'm descended from them too and can't find anything!

Sam

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World War One / Re: Stillwell WW1 Army

« on: Tuesday 02 November 10 10:13 GMT (UK) »

Thanks all, back to the drawing board and GM original opinion that he was in the Merchant Navy. I'm not entirely convinced he served at all, he was a sickly bloke who spent a great deal of time in hosptials during the 20s and 30s, my dad says it was 'mental issues' - maybe as a result of what he experienced during the war or maybe he couldn't serve because of it?

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World War One / Stillwell WW1 Army

« on: Monday 01 November 10 08:04 GMT (UK) »

Can anyone trace Frederick Albert Stillwell in Army records? I have tried but to no avail, but I'm not sure I have looked everywhere! Fred born 1895 in Battersea and next of kin duing WW1 would be mother Annie (Susan Annie). His brothers Henry Isaac and William George served, Royal Field Artillery.

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World War One / Re: Firemen WW1

« on: Sunday 31 October 10 09:18 GMT (UK) »

Thanks Ken, My GF was based on the tops of buildings in WW2, the family lived in Sydenham London at the time, my dad remembers him going out to do his bit, his day job was bookbinder. His brother in law was in the Fire brigade and we've assumed that Fred got involved because of that link. During WW1 my dad thought he did the same thing, my GM said he was in the Navy, sadly she isn't around anymore to quiz.

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World War Two / Firemen - London/City WW2

« on: Saturday 30 October 10 15:25 BST (UK) »

Are there any records of Firemen kept for WW2, Grandfather was part of 'home guard' style unit who stood firewatch in London, would I be able to find anything for this?

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World War One / Firemen WW1

« on: Saturday 30 October 10 15:22 BST (UK) »

Are there any listings of Firemen for WW1 or WW2 available? Looking for Frederick Albert Stillwell who was supposed to be in Merchant Navy but may have been a fireman on firewatch - Zeppelins (met my grandmother during a zeppelin raid in London, she may have been confused as to whether he was in the Navy or Fire service)

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