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It could be a water bottle.
And a kitbag between his legs? A darker colour than his uniform?
The belt looks more like WW1 (at least it's not the belt we wore in 1958!).
He's got rather large...

Could he be the son of a serving soldier who had died? i.e. he is posing in his father's uniform? He looks very young. Does he have some sort of bag between his legs? Is that a (Fusiliers) flaming...

Entry on census: 'Wife in Southampton Boro Gaol for ill-treating her children.' (But can find no other reference or trace.)

Christina: many thanks; have sent.
Lisa: there is a message in your Inbox.
Markpaul

Hi Lisa
Tried to email but the 'disguise' beat me!
I will respond later today - I wonder if private messages are enabled on this Forum?
mark

I'm intrigued!
Peter Pepper has written on the history of the Falkland Islands and 'Felton' is a Falklands' name.
Have you a connection? I have.

I've had an odd thought - can anyone help, please?
The handwriting of my father's entry looks very much like his own. Other people on the page are obviously entered with the same hand. This might...

That is all very helpful and informative. Many thanks.
markpaul

Apologies if this is answered on a thread – I have looked but …. !

My question is: how is the 1939 Register up-dated and how frequently?

My parents were married in 1935

My father was born...

Had the wrong man. Only one 't'?
Plasterer would be my guess.

It looks like Comb M(aker) if I have the correct entry.

CHARMAN / THRIFT / WITHERS. Also SANDERSON/BAYLEY/FENNELL/SANSOM. I am planning a visit to The National Archives soon. If anyone has relatives with these names I would be willing to keep an eye open...

Does this mean that the records will not even show a closed item for someone who died after 1991?
For example, my father, who died in 1990, appears to have been living alone at our home address. I...

Some light on the way the Register was compiled (sorry if this has been dealt with already but I cannot find it).

Mitcham.
Roland Fennell born 5.5.1910 Wallpaper designer and colour technical...

Sorry, don't know. I take my camera and also make notes. I refuse to pay for prints as they are expensive. I said I wasn't into new technology!!

The good news: I was told that all terminals at Kew have free access to the Register. Today only about half of the terminals were being used - so no overload.
I am not the most competent internet...

That's the question, I think.
I may know more if I get to The National Archives tomorrow. I do expect to fill in a gap of where my mystery relative lived in 1939 and that might suggest other...

Of course, there can be limited value in simply looking for a relative without paying for the record.
For example, my family research began because my mum wanted to know anything possible about a...

Sounds hopeful.
If I can get over there and find them accessible I will post here (unless someone beats me to it!).

Access to Census records is available free by visiting The National Archives at Kew. Does anyone know if this applies to the 1939 Register, please?

What makes you say that you know it is British?
I enlarged the picture and wonder if the man has a small beard (it's probably a splodge on the photo!) and this might explain why his head is...

Have now consulted the one relative (son) who is interested in family history.
I have started creating a flash drive which will contain PDF copies of all the branches of the family - a tree for each...

Excellent helpful summary - just what I needed (actually to confirm what, in my ignorance, I had concluded). I may be old but .....
So it's flash drives with PDF files and a hard copy to go with my...

Thanks everyone. (I did publish a little book about race relations and I wrote a thesis of 100,000 words some years ago. So it's not too strange to me - but it means I have some experience of the...

Thank you both.

I would like to write it up but at the moment don't think I will have the energy.

I had thought about things changing (as they do - all the time). Thus I suspected that flash...