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Suffolk / Re: What is a "Carlick"?
« on: Tuesday 27 November 12 15:35 GMT (UK)  »
Wow...thank you so much for the information everyone. :)

So it seems the poor young lad might have been pulling some sort of plant instead of learning his 3 R's!!
Sad to think that children so young were put to work to bring in a few pennies to help out because of the poor living conditions of the family.
Williams first wife (who was my gt grandmother) had died of consumption in 1881 so this was his second marriage. In this second marriage, (in 1886) he and his wife had 8 children, 5 at the time of his fine. So I expect the cupboards were bare. Hence having to send a very young boy out to work instead of educating him!!

Thank you all again...it has opened a whole new insight into my families lives, and their misdemeanors. :o lol

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Suffolk / Re: What is a "Carlick"?
« on: Tuesday 27 November 12 00:31 GMT (UK)  »
Hi and thanks for your reply. :)
I was wondering if it could have been garlic too, and thought perhaps the reporter wasn't very good at spelling. My first thought was he was pulling a small cart or something of the sort, but I must say it sounded a bit cruel to send a 9 year old off to pull a cart. There again they did pretty odd things in those days....bad enough sending him off to earn money as it was, but it was hard in those days so I doubt if it was out of the norm to send your children out to earn some extra cash to put food on the table. :/

By the way...William Cockle was the father of the man in my avatar who was my grandfather.

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Suffolk / What is a "Carlick"?
« on: Tuesday 27 November 12 00:13 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know what a Carlick is please.
I have tried Googling it, but it just comes up with peoples surnames and companies.

I have found an article in the Newspaper Archives relating to my great grandfather in Chedburgh Suffolk where it says he was taken to court regards "The Education Act" for neglecting to send his son to school. It states that the wife attended and it records that she said the boy had been to work "carlick pulling", as she thought she would be glad of the money. (lol)
My great grandfather was fined 5shillings including costs. So it seems sending a 9 year old to work to pull the said carlick, instead of educating him wasn't as rewarding as they thought.

Any help would be gratefully received as it's intriguing me...cheers me dears. :)

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World War Two / Re: HELP! Cannot find the Death Registration anywhere for WW2 Soldier (uncle)
« on: Thursday 14 June 12 01:10 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much for helping Ady.
Charles Mapes was his stepfather...his mother remarried after his dad died and Cyril took on his name. His birth name was Barker, but he also used the name Mapes when he married.
We've had and are still having just as much of a problem with Cyril's brother Charles...he also started to use the name Mapes, so it's a devil trying to track them both.

Thanks for the tip about the MOD...I'll have a chat with my cousin about it. :)


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World War Two / Re: HELP! Cannot find the Death Registration anywhere for WW2 Soldier (uncle)
« on: Thursday 14 June 12 00:16 BST (UK)  »
Thank you mmm45...that's much appreciated. We managed to find the one on CWGC, but cannot for the life of us find any death registration for him anywhere. It's all very frustrating and very odd. There must be one around somewhere surely!?

I don't think the Charles Mapes in Northants can be the right one...his fathers name was Arthur. Thanks for trying though. :)

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World War Two / HELP! Cannot find the Death Registration anywhere for WW2 Soldier (uncle)
« on: Wednesday 13 June 12 23:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi there....I hope somebody can help me please.

Myself and my cousin are trying to find the death registration for...

Cyril Walter Mapes of Southend-on-Sea Essex.
He died on the 25th May 1943 - Southend.
He was a DRIVER in the Royal Engineers.
His serial number was: 1927470

His place of rest is in the War Graves section of Sutton Cemetery, Southend, yet we cannot find his death registration anywhere. Not in the Military or National Registries.

We are hitting our heads against brick walls, so in desperation I am turning to you the experts, in hope that you can help us. We would like to send off for his Death Certificate if at all possible.

This is his Army Roll of Honour...
Name:   Cyril Mapes
Given Initials:   C W
Rank:   Driver
Death Date:   25 May 1943
Number:   1927470
Birth Place:   Southend-on-Sea
Residence:   Essex
Regiment at Enlistment:   Royal Engineers
Branch at Enlistment:   Other Corps
Theatre of War:   United Kingdom
Regiment at Death:   Royal Engineers
Branch at Death:   Other Corps

It's the only thing we've found about him anywhere....please can somebody help us find him? It would be much appreciated. :)
Thank you in advance.

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Armed Forces / Re: Boer War resource - "In Memoriam", Steve Watt
« on: Monday 10 October 11 14:00 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Ken... I wonder what he was watching? I read that the indigenous black people were made into watchmen to do a little spying in concentration camps to pass on information.

Granddad by the way is the man with the horses in the photo on my avatar. He was a farm worker.

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Armed Forces / Re: Boer War resource - "In Memoriam", Steve Watt
« on: Monday 10 October 11 00:55 BST (UK)  »
I have found 8 records of my grandfather who served in the 2nd Boer War that cover his enlistment into the army in 1888 up until his discharge at home from SA in 1901 on FindMyPast. These records also included where else he served, (India and Egypt) his medals and clasps and his Chelsea Pensioners record of where he died in 1949, cause of death and how much pension he was paid weekly.

I also found another record today, which states that his rank was a *Watchman*. Could somebody explain to me what a Watchman did please?  :)

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Suffolk Resources & Links / Re: Suffolk Surnames List and Cosford Database
« on: Wednesday 02 December 09 15:40 GMT (UK)  »
 ;) Thank you Suffolkmawther for that sad information concerning the lose of the site, and many thanks for the link to the archived site Pat. I was really panicking when I tried to get on the cosford-database and nothing came up this morning. If Rays site had been lost, it would have been such a disaster for all us whose ancestors originated in Suffolk, and would have been such a sad waste after all the hard work that Ray, and others did on it to make life simpler for us to find our Suffolk connections.

Pat x

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