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The Common Room / Re: Reference RIN MH followed by a number - what does this mean?
« on: Sunday 31 March 13 22:04 BST (UK)  »
Hello Suey

Great minds think alike!  :)  I emailed the tree owner just before your reply - no reply yet, but if I get one I'll post answer on here.

Thanks!

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The Common Room / Re: Reference RIN MH followed by a number - what does this mean?
« on: Sunday 31 March 13 20:29 BST (UK)  »
Hello Dawn

Sorry - It was a tree on Ancestry and the pair getting married are James Bache and Hannah Jukes.  The entry on the tree just says 1817 Marriage to Hannah Jukes, 29 Nov, Age: 34
St Martins, Birmingham
MARR: RIN MH:FF520

I thought it might be something to do with the IGI, but their numbers don't seem to match these.  I would like to follow the reference back so I can have a search myself, if it's possible, but can't seem to find the origin of these reference numbers.  So I'm a bit baffled!

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The Common Room / Reference RIN MH followed by a number - what does this mean?
« on: Sunday 31 March 13 16:49 BST (UK)  »
Hello all

Sorry if this is in the wrong place (or if it turns out to be a silly question), but I couldn't work out where best to put it!  I came across another family tree on-line which had a little bit more info on one of my lines than I have managed to find so far.  Unfortunately there was no reference for their information on birth dates, but there were a couple of marriages with the reference e.g. MARR: RIN MH:FF520.  I've worked out the MARR RIN bit, but does anyone know what the rest of it means, as I am curious to cross check, but can't seem to find out where to do it!

Thanks very much for your help.

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World War Two / Re: RAF service record help please
« on: Thursday 20 September 12 18:22 BST (UK)  »
Oh that is interesting - thank you very much, Adrian.

I never thought about the National Archive - a trip to Kew coming on, I think.

Thanks very much for the info


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World War Two / Re: RAF service record help please
« on: Wednesday 19 September 12 23:40 BST (UK)  »
Thanks very much for your replies. 

The information about 46 Squadron looks very interesting and I will certainly have a Google, although just on a quick look I'm not sure that the subsequent locations match up with the service record.  This was partly why I was wondering if he would stick with the same squadron or go where he was needed in his role as Accounts Clerk.

He was William Frederick Hazle when he served in the RAF, born in 1901.  The rest of Grandad's life details I'm pretty well up on, thanks to my Dad - it's just this mysterious reference to HQ 4 Base Area in 1940 that is intriguing me, as I wondered if that might finally confirm the story that he was in Norway.

Thanks very much you for your help and pointers - I can see many interesting hours ahead!  :)

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World War Two / RAF service record help please
« on: Tuesday 18 September 12 23:33 BST (UK)  »
Hello.  I have just received my grandfather's RAF service record and am trying to decipher it for my Dad.  I am particularly trying to work out events in 1940, when the family story goes that Grandad was in Norway and due to having to stay behind to make sure any records were destroyed before the evacuation, missed getting on HMS Glorious (and hence why we are probably all here today!). 

My problem is that there is no mention of Norway on his service record, although the dates for two movements do tie in with the beginning and end of the Norway episode.  He was apparently at Stn N Weald from March 1938, then moves to HQ 4 Base Area on 21 April 1940, and then to UK on 10th June 1940.  Does anyone know where or what HQ 4 Base Area might be?

Also, Grandad, despite a long RAF career starting in the RFC, never flew.  At this time it looks like his rank was Flight Sergeant working in the Accounts section.  I am a complete beginner where the armed forces are concerned, so wondered how things worked with clerical support staff - for instance, would he have been assigned to a squadron as "their" accounts clerk and been posted with them, or would he have been sent where he was needed and thus been in any number of different squadrons?

I'm sorry if these questions are a bit daft - I'm learning more every day, but still very much a novice where forces records and workings are concerned.

Thanks very much

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Warwickshire / Re: warwickshire deaths
« on: Tuesday 01 May 12 18:54 BST (UK)  »
Hello. I am a bit late to this thread, sorry, but was googling for an ancestor Edward Neal(e) and this thread came up. 

Would you still be able to send me any info from your list for Edward Neal who I think died in 1848/9 in Solihull.  Don't worry if you are not doing this any more, but thanks very much.


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Lanarkshire / Re: Burial in St David's, Glasgow - lair of Baillie
« on: Monday 17 October 11 17:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi Monica and Anne

Thanks very much for your replies.  It was great to see some photos of the area and where my ancestors ended up. 

I will have a closer look at the other entries on the page, Anne.  I did wonder if "Baillie" meant the equivalent of "Council" or something.  Haven't found anything concrete on Google (or elsewhere) yet though.

One more question to add to my family history list!

Thanks for both your help!

Tessa

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Lanarkshire / Burial in St David's, Glasgow - lair of Baillie
« on: Sunday 16 October 11 16:33 BST (UK)  »
Hello all. I was digging around trying to find out more about my Barclay ancestors from Glasgow, and found, unfortunately, that many of the family died young.  They are in the Register of Burial as being buried at St David's "in the lair of Baillie".  I think St David's refers to the Ramshorn churchyard, as the family lived in this area in John Street and Duke Street, but I'm not sure what the Baillie bit means.  There is no-one in the family of that name, so, seeing as they were not very well off, I wondered if it referred to some sort of charity or paupers' burial plot.

Does anyone have any info?

Thanks very much
Archronie

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