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Messages - Melanie Boswell

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Travelling People / Re: Boswell Family
« on: Monday 21 December 15 10:12 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Mark

Good to hear from you.  I'm really interested in Henry/Harry Boswell - can you tell me anything about when/where he was born and who his parents were?  I think that I saw a photo of him once, but sadly my parents-in-law had a house fire, so the photos were lost.

Melanie

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Unwanted Birth, Marriage, Death Certs A to G / COX Alice Annie born 1868 Watford
« on: Friday 15 June 07 11:48 BST (UK)  »
Another unwanted certificate for an Alice Cox:

Alice Annie Cox
born Feb 1868
Parents - Thomas and Eliza Ann (nee Williams)
Sub district of Watford.

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Unwanted Birth, Marriage, Death Certs A to G / COX Alice birth 1867 Brentford
« on: Friday 15 June 07 11:45 BST (UK)  »
Unwanted birth certificate, was tracing the wrong family entirely!

Details are:
Alice Cox, born July 1867
parents: Francis Henry and Tryphina (nee Dawney)
Sub district of Isleworth

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Unwanted Birth, Marriage, Death Certs T to Z / TAYLOR Joseph Birth 1852 Poplar
« on: Friday 15 June 07 11:41 BST (UK)  »
Wrong birth certificate obtained many years ago -

Joseph Taylor, son of John and May Ann (nee Dykes) born June 1852 in district of Bow and Bromley.

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Travelling People / Re: Boswell Family
« on: Friday 15 June 07 11:37 BST (UK)  »
Still here  :) - but have given up on the Boswell line for the time being.  Think that I may wait for the 1911 census to become available and hope this will help.

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Travelling People / Re: Boswell Family
« on: Friday 06 April 07 11:08 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much for your suggestions - I'm going to see my father-in-law tomorrow, so will see if any of the marriages listed for the Boswells ring any bells with him.

My father-in-law's Boswell family did not have much to do with him, I've asked many times if he remembers his grandmother Boswell's name and he doesn't know.  His father Henry went on to have a second family, which were considered to be the only family he had.

The witnesses to the marriage of Henry and Anne do not seem to be relations - they were E C Clerkson and F Dudley Hood.

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Armed Forces / Re: LOOKUP OFFER: Death Sentences British Army 1914-1924
« on: Thursday 05 April 07 19:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi

Please could you have a look for my great grandfather, according to his medal card he deserted towards the end of the war -

Albert L Potter
Royal Field Artillery 46325 Gunner

Many thanks
Melanie

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Travelling People / Boswell Family
« on: Thursday 05 April 07 18:48 BST (UK)  »
I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice on tracing my husband's Boswell family?   

It's a bit of a long story, but will keep it as short as possible!   I know that they were a travelling family, as my father-in-law spent his first 10 years travelling round the Surrey/Kent area living in a caravan and then went to live with his grandmother Boswell in a house.

My father-in-law does not remember his father who was called Henry/Harry Boswell.  Henry left the family when my father-in-law was 6 months old.

The only information I have on Henry Boswell is from his marriage certificate - he married Anne McKenna on 31 May 1937 at St Albans Register Office.  His occupation was Florist and age given was 35.  It's quite difficult to trace his birth as there are so many Henry/Harry Boswells registered and I have no idea where he was born.

His father's name was Thomas Boswell and occupation was Slaughterman.  I believe that Thomas had the following children:  Betty, Sue, Bill and a Thomas Mark E Boswell - who died in 2000 in Faversham, Kent.  Thomas Mark E Boswell's birth date according to the death register is 27 March 1909 - the problem I have is that I cannot find his birth registered for that year. 

Anyone got any ideas to what I could try next?

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