Trotts in England

[Neesha]

rambler i managed to get his medal card details from Ancenstory by some miracle last week....I dont have the copy of it or anything else just the same details that u gave me again....which was a real break through from having nothing at all...

we were thinking of writing to the ppl at KEw and getting a copy of the same...However would that have a date orplace of birth so that i can trace further or would that give me any further info or just the same stuff thats mentioned here....

[Manchester Rambler]

James Harrington Trott isn't showing up on UK census/Free BMD either, and nor is Edgarina - there are no Trotts with middle name Harrington on the BMD index.

I think Danvers (and James) must have been born outside England/Wales like Edgarina.  Have you tried the GRO overseas birth index?  If you're not in the UK, it's online at findmypast http://www.findmypast.com/HomeServlet (pay per view site).

Rambler

[Manchester Rambler]

The medal card basically lists the medals to which he was entitled, date of entry into a theatre of war, and date of discharge - at least that's all I have on grandad's!  More detailed explanation here: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/medals.asp#read

Rambler

[silvery]

Looks like the Trott family may have been Anglo-Indian.  On the IGI if you just put in Trott and 'all types' events' and region Asia, India  there are a lot of Trott records although none as I can see at the moment with any of the relevant names.

[Neesha]

now what i would like to know from both silvery and rambler is that given the case if he was born outside england or wales or he was an Anglo - Indian and born here but his birth was registered in England somewhere does that still mean that he would be consideed as British?

cos as far as what i know and in diffeent instances from relatives relating old stories Danvers and his family were all Bristish from somewhere in the UK and his family belonged to the Church of england...Given that case what does that mean???

serioulsy confused...

[silvery]

Nationality would be British, and passed down through the father.  There's a bit about it here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Indian

AT the moment there is no English birth registration coming up for Danvers, and his father appears to have been born in India, see message by Jorose about James Harrington Trott, which I think she got from here

http://www.fibis.org/

[silvery]

From the 'fibis' site
there is a report from the Bangalore Spectator 29-01-1895 of
Danvers H Trott taking an exam in the C and M station (European Schools) Bangalore, and he was from Baldwin Boys School.

[silvery]

It may be worth contacting the school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_Boys_High_School

[Neesha]

hey silvery,

Just read the article....what would the C and M Exam be though?

Danvers settled down in Blore in 1916 when he got married and then styaed there for a couple of years....as a mater of fact my mum and me are making a trip down there in a few days time to visit the church to see if they have any info on him registered there....like if he had to submit any prrof of birth or something before he got married...

However if say he was born in 1884 he would have been 11 yrs at that time right when he did the exam so what exactly is this exam...is it listed any where else?