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thanks for your offer just come off phone with his only surviving daughter, whos given me more info  so I was able to do a better search and I found it all on ancestry  25 pages!!!  had his ear drums   blown in by shell attack and fractured his thigh bone in same attack. ancestry told me he was in 3 hospitals before being invalided out with 2/6 shillings pension!.  Ive spoken to my aunt before but obviously hadn't asked the right questions!!

my mum had a few sayings some I still use

He don't know how many beans make five...   

  not the brightest star in the sky

Gone out and left the light on in the basement

nothing wrong with her that an expensive operation wouldn't prolong....   for a hypochondriac that lived near us!
 when mum had been chatting to a neighbour  and need to get back to her housework shed  say "Im Standing round like a pint of milk on a door step in summer".......  curdled and no use to anyone

Throwing the bathwater out with the baby.

whats for tea? iffit pie..........  if you eat it that's ok but if you don't you'll go hungry

and the one I use on my kids...  if your going to fight that's fine, just don't leave blood on the carpet

in the 1841 census William and Mary burton( both born Horncastle) have a child named selina who it states was born in Horncastle.    the marriage in 1853 seems to pertain to this selina.

 MY selina in the 51.61.71.81.91.01,and 11 census all state she was born in Cambridgeshire. but I cant find her in 1841 census

Ive only just realised that my grandfather was born  CreSSwell, but enlisted as creSwell,  he seems to have dropped the double S as it suited him.  my father too was cresswell he hated the name and was always known as Chris

had a very good friend ( now dead)  whos husband was batman to lord mountbatten... and the tales she told.  wow   her house was full of pictures with her and her hubbie with the mountbattens and other members of the royal family too