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Dutch, Joyce, have you tried to find a marriage for your GGG Aunt?

I thought I was the only one with absentee rellies. Good to know I am not! well not for tthose who have lost people but good to know I am not a lone voice in the wilderness.

Bacardi, where have you looked fr your Marine and what years was he a marine? where was he 'stationed'? Mine was Portsmouth, lived in Gosport.

An
Glos

Hi Ann
yes i did but nothing i had her on 1851 census with her family she was born in america but were i dont no,she was 15 in 1851 and two of her sisters were born in the U.S.A and another sister and brother were born in Brompton Kent,and the parents were Irish,i even bought the book Angels of albion as british women were mention but nothing
Dutchx

wos that about dutch that book

that is a complicated one Joyce. maybe somebody on here will have an idea. As Julie Ann asked, what was the book about?

its the Angels of Albion,women of the Indian Mutiny wrote by Jane Robinson,its about what the british women went thru bought the book of Amazom its english

thanks joyce, sounds interesting

it is Ann ive read right thru trying to find Mary there but then im stuck,i did so wanted to fined her grave but unless i knew when she died the cementry could,nt help and also no last name,ive even wrote to Sandhurst but same thing,what ashame her sister who was my ggggrandmother did,nt give last name,someone said it may be in the papers archives but dont no how to go about it
Dutchx

Joyce, was the Sunday news a local paper or a national?

Ann
Glos

Ann i you pm your email address will send you copy from the newspaper,if thats ok

I have 2 missing ancestors - Solomon Cooke born @1802 (vanished after being released from Huntingdon prison in 1841 leaving his wife Phoebe destitute) - where did he go? Not on 1951 census and can't find his death. He wife had to ask the parish for relief money, so she didn't know where he went. There are quite a few people on here who are descended from him and still asking the same question after all this time !
Also Willis Roy Clarke aka Billy Carlton, a musician and music hall artist who vanished after 1931. He had links with South Africa, and Gloucestershire, and worked on cruise liners, but no-one in his family ever heard from him after this date and his wife had to have him declared dead so that she could remarry several year later. Looked through deaths here and overseas in the old books at the old Family record centre, CWGC site for WW2 - zilch! Found him on a 1931 working cruise trip ship's list to South Africa (with his wife - I even have a copy of his ticket stubb from the trip!) but nothing afterwards on his own. My uncle and his brother (both in their late 80s) would dearly love to know what happened to their dad before it's too late!

Just a suggestion......It may help if you all 'edit' your posts and give a few details about where you have already searched....also if you have access to Ancestry etc.

In the wee hours when I have less to do....maybe I, and others can bookmark this thread and take another look.

Perhaps we can all look for some-one else's brick wall.....I always did find it easier finding other peoples ancestors rather than my own.

I would also be interested if anyone has any success.


Great thread Ann :-)

Susan
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Susan
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Am I dreaming? Was there a post on here asking for anyone who could find William Kibble gloucester or was that on another thread?

Kim suggested there may be something on Morelands match factory in the main Glos museum so i wandered round there this morning. I now wonder if the info will be in the Folk Museum so will look in there next time. If nothing else I enjoyed my look around the museum as not been there for ages.


Susan. good idea if I can get people to check back.

Ann
Glos

Anyone else?

Yes..an aunt of mine..believed killed in air raid in ww2.
I cant find any death references for her..or anything else!

Leslie W Wilson..born 1937. Portsmouth..thats all I know of her.
I know the name Leslie is the male spelling of the name..but I'm sure the story was of a female..so..

Dont know what the W stands for..though my grandfathers name was Leslie Whitford Wilson.

She wasn't very old when she was killed then Paul.
What have you checked.

ann
Glos

Well Ann..thats about all I know of her.
Have checked the Commonweath Graves site..but no sign of the name.
They hold records of all killed in ww2..I think.
But nothing...
As she was so young..theres not alot to go on.
Dont know where else to look.
She was born..then nothing!

My missing family are the children of Alexander Victor Gibson who was married to Susannah Smyth/e, 4 children William Henry born 1885, Mary Ann born 1887, Clara Jane born 1889 and Alexander Victor 1892. Last sightings 1891 census at Chapel Street Clayton Manchester, Susannah ran off with a man surname Hagan? apparently leaving the children with her husband, the grt granddaughter of Alexander Victor Gibson/Hagan (1892) he took the name Hagan, gave me that info but cannot find what happened to the 3 older children, a possible on 1901 census for Alexander Gibson father in Cumbria as a lodger.??
Baffling.
Frances

Frances, sounds like a good one for Susan to get her teeth into.

Paul nothing on FreeBMD is there? I checked.

Ann
Glos

Thanks Ann sorry only just replying had a phone call from garage to collect my car, it's been playing up but behaved beautiful for them grrrrr.

Frances

always the way with intermittent faults isn't it?