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hi wilkybob,

do you remember i contacted you sometime ago about a fireman in my family tree, i still havn't phoned the number you gave me.

i just wanted to let you know my son  got sponsership from the lancashire fire service while he's at uni up there and starts his fire  training in april. he's at uni for 3 yrs and then straight in fire service.

also don't know if you can help on this one. my husband was adopted and always new his birth  fathers name. after many yrs of searching we found he died in 2001 - he was a fireman in the raf but went awol in 1965  so we don't know if he ever went back to the raf. we have no raf number or where he was stationed although on some paperwork we have it says he did go to singapore.
any thoughts?

hi
i wonder if someone can help me I have a Frederick Ellis1875) in my family tree. He is buried in a war grave in bexley kent- he died in 1918 from influenza. He married in 1915 i think to a Elizabeth Christmas (informant on death cert had ) i can't find if they children or if she remarried after he died. i seem to have come to a standstill and don't know where to go from here.
thankyou

hi wilkybob,
i haven't had time yet to phone them - been busy, one sons getting married in two weeks and my baby son (18 now) is going away to university he's doing fire safety and is hoping to get in the fire service!!!
i will let you know when i do contact them
sue

hi wilkybob
i wonder if you can help me. i have a firefigther in my family tree but don't know which one it would be. they both have the name herbert ellis - one was born in 1906 and one born in 1872. Herbert (1872) is buried in a war grave in bexley with his brother frederick ellis died 4/11/1918.

i know this fireman got badly burnt during the war but i don't know which one.

many thanks
sue

HI
just wondered if anyone out there is researching the gostelow and millings family from boston lincolnshire.

my mum decends from Eleanor Millings nee Gostelow (died 1909 in childbirth) - Mary ellen millings (my grrandmother) had six children in the workhouse from 1935 she wasn't married to their father (robert Monaghan) it is believed he already had a wife and family in Ireland (although i think he came from scotland as mum said he was know as jock) he died in 1942 in huntington.

would love to hear from anyone with a connection
thanks
sue