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I am slightly confused as there is an entry for the conscription (in Surrey) of a C W Smee into the 15th Battalion of the London Regiment dated 22 April 1918

My confusion is that I think this is Cyril Walter Smee who I thought was a Lance Corporal in the 15th Battalion prior to his being gazetted as being promoted to Acting Captain from the training reserve in Feb 1917 following which he was posted to France in April 1917 and then resigned his commission in Feb 1918 which I had taken to mean he had been injured?

If he resigned for another reason it seems strange he was presumably shipped back from France only to be conscripted in England?

Pete

Thanks, I'm trying to work out wher Rev William Winks and his wife would have been buried

Sorry about the delay

It has taken me a while to sort out the Deex/Deeks mess as I only get to the Essex Record Office when there are cheap deals available at the hotel, one day, I'll bite the bullet and move to Chelmsford
 
Thinking about it, it is a little strange that as Sarah appears to have been in a "common law" relationship, that the Vicar would have accepted her signing as Smee .........

Pete
http://smee.me.uk

Also can you find a Sarah Smee anywhere in any of your census sources?  We have found that at Agnes Jones marriage to Charles Barfield in 1875 his three sisters were witnesses along with the lady called Sarah SMEE - about whom we know nothing.  We are hoping that she will be Agnes's witness and may give us more clues about her.  Probably best to look in the 1871 for Kirby to start with.

Interesting! Is one of the sisters called Louisa?
She married George Deex (spelling varies with Deeks) in 1877, his uncle David had married Ann Smee in 1851, Ann had a brother Joseph Smee (1835-1897)

The only Sarah Smee around at the time so far as I know was a "Sarah Smee " who was the mother of Joseph Smee's daughter Mary E(?) Smee.
I don't know who Sarah was because (deep breath)

Joseph married his second wife Hannah Hunt in 1871, Hannah died 1872 and Joseph and Sarah (born Great Oakley) and the baby had moved to Rotherhithe by the 1881 census - Mary Smee was baptised there in 1882.

Even more confusingly "Sarah" is 33yo in 1881 but has leapt to 58 by 1891!

Could Sarah have been another Barfield sister? 

Mary E Smee was born at Great Oakley 27 Feb 1874. No birth registration as a Smee and presumably no point in looking for a baptism in Great Oakley.

Has anyone worked out how to identify a (possible) marriage partner in the Civil Registrations?
Without the the ability to filter on
volume number:
page number:
digital folder number:

or the Quarter, it can be a very long list for some Places!

Helpful hint - if you want to filter on  Dublin South or Dublin North do NOT enter a space in the Place Filter .....