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Hi,

Does anyone have experience of AIR 19/755 at The National Archives? Does it contain much genealogical data? I am researching my partner's grandfather, Kevork or George Kevorkian, who served as a Barrack Warden first at RAF Jordan & then at RAF Akrotiri when the RAF left Jordan. He also ran a bar in Heroes Square in Limassol. He was born in Amman, Jordan but his father Haroutoun Kevorkian was from Van in what was then Armenia (pre-genocide). Trying to guage whether employing a research agent might be worthwhile.

Many thanks,

Paul

You will doubtless have found this by now but in the parish register of Gorleston with Southtown, Suffolk the entry appears as follows

James Alderton Ballard Senr of Yarmouth aged 49 buried Oct 20th
James Alderton Ballard junior of Yarmouth aged 19 buried Oct 20th
Henry Wigg of Gorleston aged 33 buried Oct 20th
Banjamin Angel of Gorleston aged 37 Oct 24th
Side note in register "These four were lost in the Ranger Cutter"

Thank you Shaun.

Thank you.

In my 40+ year One Name Study of Ballards I have come across a few unusual given names but one family in particular takes the prize for having a cluster!

William Ballard (1819 - 1900) married Ann Gelina Randall, already a hint of what may follow, in 1850 in Southwark. Their first child William Augustus dies shortly before their second child arrived & not unusually they reused the name but in reverse order, Augustus William. Sadly he also died young & a few years later Rudolph Herbert arrives. All boys so far & not overly unusual but then they finish with a flourish on three daughters, Hadassah Leonilda (1860), Cleanthus Avicenna (1864) & Quintilia Glaphyra (1867). It was fun researching what their names meant as much as following their lives!