Cecil Howard DUFFY (Born 1888)

[majm]

   well, it is like this ...

we haven't actually found his bc Y E T, and it is ALL his fault .... could not ever be our flawed BDM indexes in the various states .... so you will just have to be satisfied for the moment at least with the various slices of a variety of meats as they come to hand to add to the bones when    (not ever IF)  we do eventually find those parental bones of his    I am quite sure there was a great deal of covert Aust involvement in the various "overseas" intelligence services.     Until someone finds his bc you will just have to be satisfied with our meagre offerings from those slices of meats.  .   I hope once we have found those parental bones that you don't have nearly as much difficulty with those two lots of forebears.  

[Dundee]

Hi Mark,

During and after WW1, security was ramped up and Mr Wiki says that in Australia "The War Precautions Act 1914–1915 required that all persons over 16 years of age, on leaving the Commonwealth, possess a passport."  There was a similar Aliens Act in Great Britain. 

I see from another RootsChat post that the Archives of Ireland holds a card index to passports (applications?) 1922-1945.  The link given is http://homepage.eircom.net/%257Eseanjmurphy/nai/govdepts.htm  (Department of Foreign Affairs)  Might be worth checking for Cecil and family to see if any new info was provided at the time of emigration?  Also UK Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/passport.htm?WT.lp=rg-22875

There are a lot of confidential Cabinet Office Papers relating to British Intelligence which are free to download on the UK archives site.  They are searchable PDFs so when you enter keywords they will find all documents with those words. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SEARCH/quick_search.aspx

I will also add here that the NAA records that are indexed in their website catalogue are only a very small percentage of the records held by them.  Perhaps an enquiry will unearth something more? http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/using/askquestion/index.aspx

Have you checked the 1901 and 1911 UK census to see who was living at the London address that Cecil gave when he enlisted in 1908?

Have you followed up on Cecil's "College of Preceptors" qualification?
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/957.html

What was he doing in Cornwall in 1915?

Debra 

 

[joannb63]

Hi,
Betty McMenamin Bartlett nee Duffy is part of my McMenamin family and i have contact with a living relative of Betty.
I haven't read this total thread but if there is anything i can ask this relative for you let me know!
Regards
Jo