General Chat

ItsOM It could mean that there is no record for him, not that you are doing anything wrong. can you put his details on here so that I or somebody else can have a look? As much as you do know about him.

Ben, leave it with me I will have another look.

Hi Ann,

His name is/was Benjamin T Quick
service no: 7593
rank: Private
18th Hussars.

Does that help

OK, maybe tomorrow now as it is getting near my bed time.

ok Ann
Thank you im always here haha

Hi Its Only Me

I have searched Documents on line, which is what I should have told you not A2A. Unfortunately there is nothing under his name.

I have found this explanation as to why you may not be able to find him.

Why are the chances of finding the service records so poor?
The regimental files were brought together after the Great War into one warehouse in London. Unfortunately it was destroyed by a fire resulting from Luftwaffe bombing in 1940. Those files that were not burned were mostly smoke or water damaged. For many years they were not accessible to the public. However, a project to microfilm the surviving records is now completed and all such records are freely available for you to see at the National Archives. They are called the Burnt Series papers and are held in the WO363 classification. Microfilming and the damage has meant that in many cases the papers are not too legible. Some files contain only fragments of papers. This is the largest collection of army service records.



Luckily, two other sets of files had been extracted from the main archive, for pensions and other purposes. Together they add up to only a relatively small fraction of the existing records and a very small fraction of the original total. They have survived as the Unburnt Series WO364, with an additional sample in the Ministry of Pensions collection PIN26. They relate to men who had been discharged to pension (but it does not follow that if Granddad got a pension he is in here) and therefore do not in theory contain any files relating to soldiers who died. Generally the legibility of these papers is better than the Burnt ones. They are also held at the National Archives

don't know if this is any help at all.

http://www.1914-1918.net/grandad/grandad_records.html

Ann
Glos

Hi Ann

Thanks for all that i will look in to it and let you know how i get on

Want to keep this going while i am away? I am sure Susan with numbers will be around to help.

Ann
Glos

Hi Ann

Before you go, what are the chances that the James Bradford living round the corner from Sarah is not the one who was a witness alongside her in Matthew Coombs 1835 marriage? Could it be just a coincidence that she had a man with the same surname and similar age living near her in 1841 or could they have been connected?

Ben

nudging as I promised Ann i would while she's away

xx

Hi Ann in Glos
Still trying to find my missing Great Aunt Alice Sims. She just seems to have disappeared. Her parents were Robert Lyons Sims and her mother Phoebe (nee Quick) She was born sometime between 1871 and 1875 in London possibly Southwark. She is not in any census but could be the Alice Sims in 1881 Census of Dover Union Workhouse as her father came from Dover. She was a General Servant later on.
Can anyone help?

Glenda

Ann is currently on holidays.



XXX

Ann


Please PM when you're back from your jollies... I've now got the divorce papers for Phyllis, and to be honest it makes more questions than it answers!!!!!!!

Divorce papers Shelli?....where did you get them from?

BTW folks......the News of the World has divorces cited in their old newspapers which have been digitised and are online...It wasn't just people in the money.

Try this site for digitised Newspapers from many different countries

http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm

Just enter the keyword DIVORCE....makes good reading even if you don't find one of your own.


Susan
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Susan

received copy from National Archives at Kew.

Found the details, via their site, then enquired how i could get a copy. Cost just over £7.

and btw my divorce wasn't by people in the money either LOL

nudged as promised to Ann

nudge for Theresa

nudge for Ann while she's stil away

Pleased to see this is still going strong.

Ann
Glos

nudge

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