Water Street Leith 1916

[petrseaford]

My ancestor was born at 24 Water Street. Leith in 1916 - Her Mother was Euphemia Baird and her Father was Herbert Dexter.

Herbert Dexter was a silk worker and member of the RFC and then RAF.
Cannot find any more about him as his military records were destroyed in the fires of WW11.

Have a military number but that is all.

There would have been many service personel in those years but someone may have a reference for me

regards

peter

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[carol8353]

There is some info on a previous thread that may help with this query.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,456942.msg3182909.html#msg3182909

Carol

[tidybooks]

Hi petrseafood,

If you have had no success going down the military route, I fear you may have hit a brick wall. The fact that he survived  the Great War, and that he was an Air Mechanic rather than an officer, there are no articles in the Scotsman Archives relating to Herbert Dexter.
I have also checked BMD on Scotland Peoples website and there are no records for Herbert Dexter, and I also checked on the RC part of the website.
So census records are all that you have to go on, I have checked the index of all Scottish censii and no records either.
Sorry unable to help.

Tom

[petrseaford]

Thanks very much for all your help.

As the child born was Marion Nelson Smith Dexter then as Smith was our Nana's maiden name then it may be that Herbert Dexter's Mothers name might be Nelson.

Nana was born in 1889 so she was 25 when Marion was born so it may be that I should be searching Births and Marriages in England around 1880 for a birth to or marriage of Nelson and Dexter.

How do you suggest that I go about that

Happy New Year

regards

peter

[carol8353]

Use Free BMD on http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ for England and Wales,but Scotlands People http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/  for (obviously  ) Scottish BMD's.

Carol

[tidybooks]

Hi Peter,

I found Marion Nelson S Dexter birth on Scotlands people website, she was born in 1918 at South Leith, Edinburgh. To get certificate it will cost £12 as it is not allowed to be downloaded online, due to 100 year rule.
It only gives limited characters hence the "S" instead of Smith. However there is a birth in 1918 at South Leith for a Marion Nelson Smith, this would lead me to believe that parents registered birth but were not married. If you have the birth certificate already, it will have the parent's marriage date and place on there. If not, read the following link, http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=551&578

Tom

[petrseaford]

Thanks tried the free search and no luck with Nelson/Dexter -- where to now ??

Happy New Yera and regards

peter

[petrseaford]

just another thought why would someone put on the birth certificate of their chile " silk worker " if at the time they were in the Air Force.

Was the Silk Worker something of special interest or would a grocer in the Air force stat that he was a grocer on such a form??

Just interesting - thats all

regards again

peter

[carol8353]

If Herbert's usual profession was silk worker,then that's what he would put on the cert. Being in the Air Force for the duration of the war is only a temporary thing and I suspect he hoped to go back to the silk mills when the war was over.