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« Reply #126 on: Tuesday 13 March 12 11:54 GMT (UK) »
I rang the GRO not very helpful but I explained that this was all the information I had, they said try ordering it again so I have
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« Reply #127 on: Tuesday 13 March 12 12:16 GMT (UK) »
Hi Topas

If you don't get any joy, ring them again and ask to speak to a manager, I done this in the past and they have found what I was looking for.
Family History is a Pandora's box if you don't like what you see find a new hobby,only concentrate on the proven facts and not the facts you think you know.
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« Reply #128 on: Tuesday 13 March 12 12:19 GMT (UK) »
Ok thanks you can only give them the information that is available they must have some way of finding it
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« Reply #129 on: Tuesday 13 March 12 12:33 GMT (UK) »
Was there a way of making it clear to them that it was an overseas birth?
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« Reply #130 on: Tuesday 13 March 12 12:39 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: groom on Tuesday 13 March 12 12:33 GMT (UK)
Was there a way of making it clear to them that it was an overseas birth?
The record is for Army Overseas Births, you are right Jan this must be mentioned.
Family History is a Pandora's box if you don't like what you see find a new hobby,only concentrate on the proven facts and not the facts you think you know.
Jenkins, Radnorshire. Herefordshire, Canada
Coley Dudley.
Baston, Cleobury Mortimer.Wolverhampton
Parker Stafford.
Hammond/s Wolverhampton.Shropshire
Duckworth Cheshire.
Proud Walsall.Proud Cape South Africa
Horton Darlaston.
Stanton Walsall.
Tudor. Radnorshire
Pittaway. Droitwich

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« Reply #131 on: Tuesday 13 March 12 12:54 GMT (UK) »
Not sure how it was worded but it was for people overseas to forces personel so yes they did know that
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« Reply #132 on: Tuesday 13 March 12 12:59 GMT (UK) »
Yes that was the wording and yes I did apply in that section
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« Reply #133 on: Thursday 15 March 12 13:34 GMT (UK) »
Well I have good news and bad news, in 1928 when Alfred Matthew etc joined the prison service he signed a declaration stating he was Matthew William Hedges, son of Matthew and Ellen Amelia Hedges formerly Chatterton but he actually signed the declaration A. May which when he was at Dartmoor Prison it gives his name as Alfred May without the other names, I know this as I have visited the prison museum and seen his name in their ledger for staff members, so none of this actually explains how it got from Matthew William, to Alfred Matthew etc, I am hoping my Aunt's birth cert will reveal any more info as she was born abroad, and I am still trying to track down my cousins on the IOW without much luck so far
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« Reply #134 on: Thursday 15 March 12 13:51 GMT (UK) »
At least we know we were following the right family.

I've got an awful feeling that this is going to be one of life's unsolved mysteries. He cant have done anything awful, otherwise he would have tried to hide his name. It might be worth trying to find if there was anything in newspapers of the time. I have a relative who changed her name to Anglicize it and there was an announcement in the London Gazette.
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