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World War One / Re: Church Parade?
« on: Saturday 14 May 16 08:58 BST (UK)  »
replies much appreciated, it is a photo with lots of clues isn't it?  It is scanned in at a decent resolution and so some detail does stand out.  I have also looked at the Seaforth Barracks in Liverpool to see if they had any training camps outside of the city and none have been found, the Barracks was built in the 1880s and was being used well before WW1.  The big house is also a good clue but each time I come across a training camp using a private estate the modern image does not fit the house in the picture. Thanks so far, the answer is out there somewhere! I'll look at Welsh camps there was one at Beaumaris from 1902 actually.  Thanks for the idea!

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World War One / Church Parade?
« on: Saturday 14 May 16 00:48 BST (UK)  »
This is a very interesting image, photo undated, taken by James Thorley Wrench, Saville studios, Hoghton street, southport (business stamp in reverse). Wrench and his parents emigrated to Canada in april 1911 and lived in torontoi. In 1917, James Thorley Wrench attested for the Canadian Expeditionary Force, no record as yet of if he ever went overseas.
The shop in Southport will have closed when they emigrated and so this image may well be pre-WW1.
Unless James had kept some of his old printing cards and used them later on when he was serving, anyway, I have looked at various possible locations in Lancashire but nothing matches, also looked at Salisbury Plain camps but many of those only popped up when War broke out and this photo may well pre-date 1914.

Any ideas please?

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Armed Forces / Re: "The Charge ot the Light Brigade"
« on: Wednesday 22 October 14 10:32 BST (UK)  »
These pictures were probably taken in the Yard of the Queens Head Hotel, Moor Street, Ormskirk, in early August 1902, when at the towns Coronation Gala, Master W Hough son of Mr W Hough of the Queens Head Hotel, won first prize in the 'Most attractive and amusing turnout on a quadruped', (that means 4 legs)  :) Master Hough's theme was 'Miniature Sgt-Major Nunnerley' and he won £2 for his efforts! All info from the Ormskirk Advertiser dated 14th August 1902.

best wishes
Dot
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United States of America / Re: Missing from SSDI
« on: Friday 09 April 10 14:49 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again avm228!!
I have had an email an hour ago from Jersey City Archives and they have sent details of the marriage, complete with both sets of parents details!  Also the death details of the bro-=in-law, his burual place and his will info!  Including the bequests and informant!

They are certainly on the ball! They have not charged for any of it either which is a completely delightful bonus!

thanks

Hawkes FH ;D

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Cheshire / Re: Broady Baptism Appleton Cheshire
« on: Friday 09 April 10 12:28 BST (UK)  »
hey thanks for that, i have not come across that one at all!  My grandma and grandad broady are buried at Lower Whitley and so i knwo the church well.  That is the very first henry i have come across ever baptised at the right time and i have always taken his father to be a Thomas Broady!!!
Brilliant thanks so much for that, I have used that pilot search on familysearh.org or other things but never the broady name!  Dozy me lol

I'll have a look now, cos it is sounding right!!
thanks!!!

hawkes FH

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United States of America / Re: Missing from SSDI
« on: Friday 09 April 10 11:06 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much avm228,

that was a speedy and really helpful reply, it's only taken minutes to identify exactly which reels of microfilm I would need to search to find Lily and James's marriage in Hudson County!

I hadn't thought to research the history of the SSDI, lacking of me I admit!

I'm not going to rush to do a search in person as my next trip to the US is to see Garth Brooks at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas (hopefully this coming October) but it has set me on another promising mission!

thanks again

Hawkes FH

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Cheshire / Re: Broady Baptism Appleton Cheshire
« on: Friday 09 April 10 10:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lizzie,
Thanks for the reply,
It's really annoying isn't it?  Especially when you know you are looking in what for all intents and purposes should be the right place!  Maybe I should be more forensical about it and doubt the truth of his precise repetitivness on each census return, some investigators these days would question the use of the exact same info every 10 years as being too rehearsed!

Good luck with your efforts!

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United States of America / Missing from SSDI
« on: Friday 09 April 10 10:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi, could someone please advise on how to locate a marriages and deaths that probably took place in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey in the first half of the 1900s?
Lillian (Lily) Broady born Warrington UK 1878 arrived in New Jersey to join her 'sister' Margaret Grounds (nee Broady) in 1904.  She returned to the UK for a year 1907-08 then went back , she is living on the 1910 census with margaret and bro-in-law Septimus Grounds in jersey City.  In 1920 and 1930 she is married to Irishman James (F) Galvan/Galvin, who arrived in the US in 1908.  There are no children with Lillian and James on any of the returns, in 1930, Septimus Grounds is also living with them as Margaret must have died between the 1920 and 1930 return.
Nothing close is coming up on the SSDI for either Margaret Grounds (b 1859 in Warrington Lancashire UK) or Lillian Galvin/Garvin.  Nor can I find the death of Septimus Grounds (b1862 Warrington UK).  I have found Septimus in some Jersey City trade directories as a conectioner, though he was at one time a carpenter.

I have no experience of locating US marriages and so if someone could point me towards the right area of research I would be grateful for the help and advice.

Thanks in anticipation

HawkesFH

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Travelling People / Re: Fighting Zacky lee
« on: Friday 09 April 10 00:24 BST (UK)  »
After 20 years of Family History research, 5 of them spent tutoring the subject at a CRO, I have finally discovered armchair genealogy thanks to a subscription to ancestry.co.uk.  amazing how 'easy' it is.

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