Are you sitting comfortably ? then I'll begin !!

[Doedoe]

 
     YIPPEEEEEEE

Doreen

[michel51]

wow,

what a good new !!!!

Michel

[Polldoll]

What an apt title to this thread Annie ... It's been a real journey this has and no matter what the outcome I know you have touched the hearts of many with your  wonderful efforts to trace an heir to Michels find all those years ago.  It gives me inspiration to keep on with my research despite the brick walls that we all encounter .
The dogged way in which you have been so determined to find information that would lead to a living relative of  our Robert ( yes he does feel like he belongs to us doesn't he ?)in a way epitomises the spirit that bound  these brave souls together during that terrible time .  Well done to all of you !  You are all an absolute credit and inspiration  to  us all.... Awesome 

Poll

[yn9man]

What an apt title to this thread Annie ... It's been a real journey this has and no matter what the outcome I know you have touched the hearts of many with your wonderful efforts to trace an heir to Michels find all those years ago. It gives me inspiration to keep on with my research despite the brick walls that we all encounter .
The dogged way in which you have been so determined to find information that would lead to a living relative of our Robert ( yes he does feel like he belongs to us doesn't he ?)in a way epitomises the spirit that bound these brave souls together during that terrible time . Well done to all of you ! You are all an absolute credit and inspiration to us all.... Awesome

Poll

Annie -

 I have been following this thread since the beginning and have waited until now to post my comments. I am in awe of you and all the other Rootschatters (too numerous to mention here) that have pursued an heir to Michels find so many years ago.

You and the other Rootschatters have inspired me to continue to research my family and not to give up.

Thanks for starting this thread and I sincerely hope for a good result.

yn9man

[tazzie]

   Annie got me hooked at page 5..what seems like ages ago now.
   I am now hoping we get the right result for Michel as he has looked after it so well .

  Roll on Monday we may get news from the Echo...Annie...is it downloadable so we can all grab a peek?

                              Tazzie

[yn9man]

 Annie got me hooked at page 5..what seems like ages ago now.
 I am now hoping we get the right result for Michel as he has looked after it so well .

 Roll on Monday we may get news from the Echo...Annie...is it downloadable so we can all grab a peek?

 Tazzie

Seems like ages but in reality just over two weeks. It still amazes me as to what fellow rootschatters can do. Imagine and look at all the research that has gone on.

yn9man

[aspin]

I keep popping in this thread to see what is going on

I too think the rootchatters that have helped you Annie have done well

Even going to look to see if the houses are still around

Good Luck
from Elizabeth

[purlin]

The Machine Gun Corps

No military pomp attended its birth or decease. It was not a famous regiment with glamour and whatnot, but a great fighting corps, born for war only and not for parades. From the moment of its formation it was kicking.  like old soldiers it simply faded away in 1922
A total of 170,500 officers and men served in the MGC, of which 62,049 became casualties.

Well done ladies, i even stopped watching the football over the weekend to read these threads   ...........  for a while anyway!

[munchies]

I nipped to Liverpool records office to do some research and looked up some details (or not as it turned out) for liverpoolannie
Well I tried...
They hauled upteem books out of the archives for me and me and my dusty fingers searched them but I couldn't find him. I checked the following

Liverpool Collegiate School admission registers 1904-1938
Liverpool High School
Liverpool Commercial School 1905-1918
Liverpool Commercial Achool 1904-1909
Liverpool Commercial School 1906-1910
Liverpool Commercial School Middle School 1902-1906
Commercial School Vol C V (as in roman5) 1904-1907

all of the above were listed under Liverpool Collegiate.

Where did you get the info from? I wondered if someone had given you info from an index with no dates/ages.

There was one entry for a Robert  John Stead at Liverpool Collegiate School but his father was Edwin Jas Stead a storekeeper. He was admitted 11/09/1929 and left 19/12/1933 with a date of birth 1/11/1917.

There was also a John Stead father William Stead a farmer DOB 20/01/14 entered school 18/09/24 and left 18/07/31

Sorry not to have more info.

The marriage certificate was easy to find although again not on microfilm so had to access the original archives. have taken a photo on my daughters camera and once I work out how to post it will do so. But the details are as follows.

Robert William Stead 25 bachelor 66 Arkles Ave Liverpool father William Stead (dec'd) master mariner

Elizabeth Neil Grant 26 spinster 47 Victoria Rd Tuebrook father James Grant schoolmaster

Witnesses Percy Alex Bingham and Nora Evelyn Tompkins
Date of marriage 1st Dec 1921 at St Simons and St Judes
 Don't know if any of this info is any help though 

Donna