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Shropshire / Re: Yapp Family
« on: Friday 13 July 07 13:52 BST (UK)  »
I have just discovered the parents of my 3x gt granny Elizabeth Yapp b 1813 Ludlow.  They were Richard and Jane Yapp.  As far as I can discover, there was only one other sibling, Abraham  b1811 d 1812.  Elizabeth married Evan Thomas James in 1836 and made her home in Presteigne.  Does anyone have any idea about Richard and/or his wife Jane and whether he was born in Ludlow, or a village nearby, please?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: The Champions of Horsham
« on: Thursday 05 October 06 11:16 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Jorose and Siligen for your help.  Charles died about 1850 and his wife Anne in 1841, so the reference to him being in the 1841 as a widower, is correct, I am sure.
Many thanks
Sands

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Family History Beginners Board / The Champions of Horsham
« on: Wednesday 04 October 06 14:57 BST (UK)  »
I have a Charles Champion b. abt 1795 who married Anne Mitchell in Feb 1816 in Horsham.  Does anyone have access to any registers who could tell me his parents names please.  I think it was a Thomas Champion, but cannot be certain.
Many thanks   Sands

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Brains needed !!
« on: Saturday 23 September 06 11:50 BST (UK)  »
Helly Sandyq,

I was having a look through the BMD on Ancestry to see if I could 'throw any light on' your problem, and it occurred to me - could her name have been -
MARY A Taylor ?  Said quickly, it would sound like Maria.   I found a Mary Taylor in the Sep quarter of 1867, born Burton (vol. 6b p. 318) .  Could this be your ancestor?

Best wishes
Sands

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: The Mystery of John Thomas FOSTER
« on: Thursday 21 September 06 21:33 BST (UK)  »
This is true.  Think I will send for this, at least it's a small piece in the puzzle.  My father says he has some carpentry tools which he believes were once owned by his grandfather, so I wonder if the John Foster from Matching, Essex, could be the grandfather (who had a son John Thomas Foster).  John Foster senior in the 1881 census lists him as a master carpenter.  Strangely, that was my father's occupation! :-\  Sandra

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Armed Forces / John Thomas Foster ex Marine
« on: Saturday 16 September 06 20:29 BST (UK)  »
My paternal grandfather died long before I was born.  actually my father was about 9 years old,(1932)  He knows very little about his father, and this is the reason why. 
John Thomas Foster was born sometime around 1871-5, we have no idea where.  ?Possibly West Ham area, though none of the census' confirm this.  He was a Marine, but due to a misdemeanour (I believe he struck a fellow Marine) he was "drummed out" .  As this was a disgrace, particularly in Victorian England, his family disowned him.  He married my grandmother in 1916.  The marriage certificate states that his occupation at that time was "labourer" and he was living in West Ham.  His father is listed as John Thomas Foster too.  That is almost all I know of him.
Is it possible to trace someone who was dismissed from the services for such a misdemeanour?  I would so like to trace his family, for my father's sake as well as my own.   :(  Can anyone help please?  Sandra ::)

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Kent / Re: EDWARD BISHOP
« on: Saturday 16 September 06 17:31 BST (UK)  »
Valda, you are a star ! :D  Thank you again for your help.  Hopefully, I can get this 'ball' rolling now.  Very many thanks.  Sandra :)

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Kent / Re: The Fridays of Harbledown, Kent
« on: Saturday 16 September 06 17:28 BST (UK)  »
Thank you SO much for that information Valda.  It looks a very strong possibility that James was her brother and Catherine her mother.  Sandra

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: The Mystery of John Thomas FOSTER
« on: Saturday 16 September 06 17:20 BST (UK)  »
Thankk you for that.  Yes I did find that and believe that to be my John Thomas.  Unfortunately the death certificate wouldn't tell me where he was born, which is a shame  :'(  I have the marriage certificate (that took some finding too).  Is there a way of searching (preferably on line, since I am partially disabled) the Forces information to find the reference to John's dishonourable dismissal from the Marines.  This obviously took place before his marriage in 1916 - at least I think it must have been, because his occupation on the marriage certificate is given as a labourer.   :-\ Sandra

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