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    May I add this area of research. Google: ...

    May I add this area of research.

    Google: "william stevens" british consul

    enter as above complete with the "

    Regards

    Peter
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    Perhaps Admin at brit-gen have an e-mail address ...

    Perhaps Admin at brit-gen have an e-mail address ?
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    https://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/proj...

    https://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/brickmakers-talk/brickmakers/brickworks-st-stephens.htm

    Perhaps look at this page. Scroll down to 1871 and auction of all goods from a...
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    Hello PeterM Some time back I decide to look...

    Hello PeterM

    Some time back I decide to look more closely at the history of a great uncle, his widow was an important part of our family.

    He was KIA a few months before the end of WWI and in...
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    Hello Peter. I don't know if records are all...

    Hello Peter. I don't know if records are all under one umbrella and years of genealogy taught me several things one of them being "assume nothing" and another is that the discovery and deciphering...
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    Hello Peter. Just a point of detail that I...

    Hello Peter. Just a point of detail that I am sure you will find, if you haven't already. During WW1 it was the Royal Air Corps, the Royal Air Force name came later
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    Lancashire . perhaps a Red Rose over a Lion. ...

    Lancashire . perhaps a Red Rose over a Lion.

    https://www.british-genealogy.com/extensions/uploads/317bb023-4fc7-424e-a35b-465219876114.jpg
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    That's a lot of husbandry training :-)

    That's a lot of husbandry training :-)
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    Thank you for your interest. Born about same...

    Thank you for your interest. Born about same year 1907, with same mother and handwriting ? maybe ??

    He was named after his father.
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    Hi Lesley. Me being the world #1 skeptic I just...

    Hi Lesley. Me being the world #1 skeptic I just had to print out the marriage certificates. Unless there were 4 Reuben J Patton's with the same mother, declaring the approx same occupation and...
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    If you have a minute. multiple marriages

    Hello. What was, for me, just a marriage, I recently had reason to revisit a name to see if I could find more information. I am not seeking info on this unless someone cares to comment, just...
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    Duh !! I just realised that I forgot to ask...

    Duh !! I just realised that I forgot to ask the simple question that Peter G asks. "Do you have name, DOB or anything to help identify an individual"
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    Reference to 1916 "Battles of the Somme 1916 (1...

    Reference to 1916 "Battles of the Somme 1916 (1 July - 18 November 1916)"
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    They did come back to France and saw action...

    They did come back to France and saw action there.

    https://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/battalion.php?pid=6477


    Battles (plural) of the Somme mentioned here includes 1918
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    East Sutton Park house was, in common with many...

    East Sutton Park house was, in common with many other large houses, requisitioned by the Army during WWII. Verbal information given to me years ago by a senior Army Officer, suggested that very few...
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    To anyone starting out in Genealogy, please note...

    To anyone starting out in Genealogy, please note that just because it is not available online does not mean it does not exist. The record you seek may be in an archive somewhere or may have been...
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    I hate to be "Johnny Raincloud" and as someone...

    I hate to be "Johnny Raincloud" and as someone who also made a living from running my own business, I kinda sucked air through my teeth when I visited their website. Just struck me as a bit like...
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    I have changes in location throughout my family...

    I have changes in location throughout my family tree. Old maps can be really good for understanding how names of an area can change. When there were just a few houses together, the name could be...
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    2018 and we live in a different world. However,...

    2018 and we live in a different world. However, some 50+ years ago I did spend an amount of time with people of closely defined beliefs. There were meetings where, separately men and women would...
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    Searching the 1851 Census in the described area...

    Searching the 1851 Census in the described area (Burton Abbey) I am reminded, yet again, that the visual quality of the record is inversely proportional to one's needs.
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    From Genuki. "WOOD NOOK, 3 or 4 cotts. in the...

    From Genuki.

    "WOOD NOOK, 3 or 4 cotts. in the township of Honley, and parish of Almondbury, 4¼ miles from Huddersfield."

    Confirms that entries such as the one in the 1841 Census is not unique...
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    I also saw "Wooden Nook". Certainly the...

    I also saw "Wooden Nook". Certainly the upper case "W's" are visible elsewhere on the page.

    The census # first quoted by Helachau worked for me Ancestry - All collections - UK and Ireland -...
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    Hello. I should have included this bit.

    Hello. I should have included this bit.
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    From the 1841 Census. Someone lived here, once...

    From the 1841 Census. Someone lived here, once upon a time. I haven't included my "gut reaction" translation so as not to influence. Please bear in mind that it would not have been far from...
  25. The photo comes up on Ancestry and a couple of...

    The photo comes up on Ancestry and a couple of family trees. Interesting name.
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