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My wife was born in Ahmednagar on 6th December 1942 and her father was Staff Sergeant Leonard George HOLT.

He joined the DCLI in Birmingham in 1930 and spent the next 11 years in India and was already in Meerut when he transferred to the newly formed 26th Hussars on the 1st February 1941.

After the Unit disbanded they left India and arrived back in England on the 9th September 1943.

We are going to India in 2 weeks time for a holiday and will be staying in Pune and Ahmednagar for the first four days to try and research where my wife was born and the history of the 26th Hussars.

I would like the opportunity to talk to you before then if that is possible.

Best wishes
Brian

brian.tucker@blueyonder.co.uk

Is there anybody who might be planning a visit to the Central Library in Hull and would be kind enough to look up an address on the electoral registers for me ?

I live in Birmingham and I am anxious to learn if anybody lived with Robert T A Cryer at number 8 Providence Terrace, Wassand Street, Hull in the late 1920's and early 1930's before his death on Xmas Day 1934.

Grateful thanks.

Brian

Is there anybody who could look up this marriage for me please and also if possible the birth of John Palmer in Wear Gifford in c1823 ?

I would be VERY grateful as they are my paternal 2x  great grandparents and I've hit a brick wall trying to go back another generation. I have an inkling that Mary may have been a widow and I'm hoping that this information as well as fathers names, whether alive or deceased, witnesses etc will help me take a step back.

Very briefly this is what I have so far :

1861 - John (1823), Mary Ann (1824) plus 4 children William 6, Selina 4, Leah 2, (my great grandmother) and Rachel 9 months. Living in Huntshaw but not born there as recorded.

1871 - John, Mary Ann, William, Rachel and Eva 8. Living in Horwood Village, Horwood their places of birth are recorded as Wear Gifford (John), Alverdiscott (Mary Ann), Monkleigh (William) and Huntshaw (Rachel and Eva).

1881 - Mary Ann and Rachel (no mention of John can't find him elsewhere) plus a married daughter Louisa Elizabeth Groves and grandson Willie Thomas. Louisa's maiden name was Hill, born 1844 Alverdiscott, hence from a previous marriage of Mary Ann or born out of wedlock ?

1891 Mary Ann living with son William and family in Pilton, she is now a widow and died in 1895.

I cannot find the death of John Palmer, indeed the only information I have on his life is through the 1861 and 1871 census.

Any information, help or advice, however small would be sincerely appreciated.

Many thanks

Brian

Finally an unidentified couple, bottles of stout in hands ha ha, and one of the white horses being put through his paces.

John the man you mention has been identified to me as Charles Leighton.

I did some research and discovered that he joined Bertram Mills as their Advance Booking Manager in 1930. During the war he served with E.N.S.A. and rejoined Bertram Mills in early 1946 but died in London later that year on the 27th November 1946 aged 70. An obituary for him in The Billboard dated 28th December 1946 said that he started his career as a vaudeville comedian before becoming best known as an advance agent for the dancer Pavlova.

I have received a few more photos , the first was taken at Newcastle in July 1932 and the second is stamped on the back with the name of an Edinburgh company.

Regards

Brian