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[karenlee]

Wonderful news Tiny... that helps heaps.

There is a Medal Card for a Robert SIM of the South Wales Borderers which shows that he was awarded the Victory Medal, British Medal, 1914 Star, Clasp and Roses..... and that his rank was Corporal and his Regimental Number was 10420.  As you note, there are many WW1 Service Records that were destroyed in WW2 so it is likely that you may not find his.  Perhaps a post on the WW1 forum might help.

Karenlee

[TinyUK]

Wonderful news Tiny... that helps heaps.

There is a Medal Card for a Robert SIM of the South Wales Borderers which shows that he was awarded the Victory Medal, British Medal, 1914 Star, Clasp and Roses..... and that his rank was Corporal and his Regimental Number was 10420.  As you note, there are many WW1 Service Records that were destroyed in WW2 so it is likely that you may not find his.  Perhaps a post on the WW1 forum might help.

Karenlee

You are a detective.

I have just been crawling all over a site that has free records (until you find one then they wan paying) And couldn't find anything. Even the SIMs' they found, were the wrong ones.

There is a WWI forum now.....thanks

Thought I was the only person up in the middle of the night....

Take care

Regards

Tiny

[karenlee]

Just gone lunch time here in Oz....  so you must be the only night owl then....

[TinyUK]

Just gone lunch time here in Oz....  so you must be the only night owl then....

G'day

Sorry, didn't realise you were so far away. I keep forgetting that we are now a global village.

I even have a cell 'phone.

BTW, where did you find the medal records, and 2. How can I know I have the right Robert Sim?

I do not have any of his medals (sigh)

Going to try and sleep now. But had to get the Marriage cert info out to everyone, and then I just strted looking again, and time flies...

Again, many thanks

Kind regards

Tiny

[carol8353]

I know that James Sider died in 1888 @Woodbridge, Suffolk and his birth was June (qtr?) 1849 and records for the Sider family match that info.  I( think I would have to get a copy of his death cert to find out what he died of? and maybe shed some light as to why he was in Suffolk.

Tiny

Well Woodbridge in Suffolk isn't that far at all from the coast and harbour areas of Felixstowe and Harwich,so being a mariner you can see why he might have reason to visit there.

If you're not sure of UK geography you can see it on www.streetmap.co.uk and then pan out to see where Woodbridge is in relation to the rest of the county.

Carol

[TinyUK]

I know that James Sider died in 1888 @Woodbridge, Suffolk and his birth was June (qtr?) 1849 and records for the Sider family match that info.  I( think I would have to get a copy of his death cert to find out what he died of? and maybe shed some light as to why he was in Suffolk.

Tiny

Well Woodbridge in Suffolk isn't that far at all from the coast and harbour areas of Felixstowe and Harwich,so being a mariner you can see why he might have reason to visit there.

If you're not sure of UK geography you can see it on www.streetmap.co.uk and then pan out to see where Woodbridge is in relation to the rest of the county.

Carol

Hi, Carol.

Thanks for your input.

I am pretty well up to speed on UK and European geography. When I left the navy, I was a commercial driver. Artics. to be precise. Oh happy days....


I thought he was living in Kent, but I have no record of that. He could have died at sea, and returning to the port he left from, presumably, they would have registered his death there.

I have no idea (yet) where he was living, at the time of his death.

I have just ordered his marriage certificate.

BTW, do you know if it's possible to order, online, Scottish marriage certificates?

I am going to try and get my Great-grand-father/mother's marriage cert. ( James Sim )

The searching continues.

Many thanks for the help you have been.

Kindest regards

Tiny

[carol8353]

HI there

Scotland has a completely different system to us,you pay a small amount on http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ to look at the entry and you see the actual image of the cert,which you can then download.

Works out at about £1 for each cert.

Carol

[TinyUK]

HI there

Scotland has a completely different system to us,you pay a small amount on http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ to look at the entry and you see the actual image of the cert,which you can then download.

Works out at about £1 for each cert.

Carol

Hi, Carol.

I was afraid you were going to say something like that....lol

I did a quick search and came up with hundreds.....

Am trying, as I type, to trace to my grandmother's mother.

I know she married James Sider, and her name is Emma, nee Smee.

I have a death record for her on Freebmd, aged 91 at Maldon

BUT....Her DoB could be 1849/50/51

So, it isn't easy...

Take care.

Regards

Tiny

[carol8353]

According to the 1901 and 1891 censuses found for you on the previous page Emma was born in Great Oakley- not Scotland?

In 1881 she is at 44 Church Street Harwich.

James Sider 32 head fisherman out of employment b Boreham essex
Emma Sider 31 wife b Stones Green Essex
Robert W. Sider 6 son... .kids all b Harwich
Henry J. Sider 4 son
Samuel R. Sider 2 son
James E. Sider 10 mths  son

RG1/1782 folio 12 page 17.

Carol