HARRIS / ATKIN

[Patrisia]

Hi Geoffers,

Is this the point at which I bore everyone to tears, yet again, with the 'errant' birth, circa 1876, of Grandfather Henry HARRIS, and his equally errant parents, Henry & Emma HARRIS and/or ATKIN: who seemed to travel the country from Lincoln and Leicester, to West Hartlepool via Hull, possibly Pontefract, ending up in Rotherham via Ecclehall Bierlow?

If anyone is really interested, I can post a veritable epistle on what I have, what I have not, what I have proved and, more to the point, what I have disproved; interspersed with the odd hypothesis!

A serious question - does anyone know whether a man who joined the army in 1894 had to prove his age with at least a baptism certificate? Or could his mother just say 'I had him 18 years ago'?
Still |banghead|

[Geoffers]

Is this the point at which I bore everyone to tears, yet again, with the 'errant' birth, circa 1876, of Grandfather Henry HARRIS, and his equally errant parents, Henry & Emma HARRIS and/or ATKIN........If anyone is really interested, I can post a veritable epistle on what I have,Please post away, I'm really interested - you never know, there may be someone just joined who knows exactly the information that you're after.
A serious question - does anyone know whether a man who joined the army in 1894 had to prove his age with at least a baptism certificate? On the enlistment papers I have seen from this time, there is no mention of proof of age; I can't imagine that it was required. Provided you could shave you were old enough, run across a room, you were fit enough - and if you didn't fall over, you weren't blind or a drunk. How seriously age would be taken into account would probably depend on how urgent was the need for manpower.

By the way, I've split your message off into a new thread.
Geoffers