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    Thanks for all your thoughts. I should have...

    Thanks for all your thoughts. I should have realised about the Underground - I'm currently re-reading Christian Wolmar's book about it. With all that going on, my great-uncle should have been very...
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    Thanks for that - looks promising. In the...

    Thanks for that - looks promising. In the newspaper ads of 1900 there are mainly 2 sorts: work in theatres and American correspondence courses 'approved by Mr Edison' but by 1910 there are many...
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    Thanks for the helpful suggestions: naturally, he...

    Thanks for the helpful suggestions: naturally, he didn't fill in the 'industry' column on the 1911, but I'll look at newspaper ads. and cross-check against industry. I've seen the electrical medical...
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    What might an early electrician do?

    My great-uncle William George Adams (1871-1926)was a brass fitter in 1897(parish register baptism of daughter at All Saints, Margaret St, Westminster)but by the 1901 census was calling himself...
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    Death Certificate arrived today. Sydney Arthur...

    Death Certificate arrived today. Sydney Arthur Adams aged 77, retired handyman, died of Myocardial degeneration & atherosclerosis at 39 Clarendon Rd, Hove on 23 Sept 1963. Informant E Adams, present...
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    Off to order the pdf of the Hove death cert. I...

    Off to order the pdf of the Hove death cert. I agree that this would be a big coincidence.
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    Thanks to everyone for answering. The wife I...

    Thanks to everyone for answering.
    The wife I have is indeed Emily Ada Samuels and in the 1939 Register she describes herself as married not as a widow.
    I had wondered about the Hove death,...
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    WW1 East Surreys connection Jamaica

    I have just located my great-uncle Sidney Arthur ADAMS (b 1886, Shoreditch) in 2nd Bn East Surrey Regt. He married in Burma in 1911 as a sergeant; in 1911 census was still stationed in Burma; in...
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    Thanks to everyone for helpful suggestions, and...

    Thanks to everyone for helpful suggestions, and for undertaking work on my behalf (and so speedily). I am aware of the Irish connection - he was the son of a serving (Scottish) soldier in Dublin -...
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    Edmonton Burial 1937

    Seeking information on where my grandfather may be buried.

    David William FINDLAY died 8 June 1937 at home at 54 St Joseph's Rd, Edmonton. The only church connection I know is with All Saints,...
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    Thank you to everyone who has responded, I - and...

    Thank you to everyone who has responded, I - and my fellow-seeker - do have access to the British Newspaper Archive and to Find My Past.

    Thanks especially for the WATSON connection. Since I am...
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    Thank you so much for these replies - divorce...

    Thank you so much for these replies - divorce never occurred to me at this early date. We live and learn!
    Regards
    Delphine
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    Helen FINDLAY nee GRAY (b Dunfermline 1841)

    What happened to Helen FINDLAY nee Gray after 1874?

    Helen GRAY d/o Robert GRAY & Jean (otherwise Jane) PYE married William Anderson FINDLAY 1 Jan 1866 Dunfermline. They had 5 children, the last...
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    Thanks again! If he was in Glasgow with the RFA...

    Thanks again! If he was in Glasgow with the RFA on March 12th 1915 (and I don't fully understand which bit of the RFA, from the address), could he have been with the 1st Essex sailing to Gallipoli?...
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    Thanks for taking the trouble to read and reply....

    Thanks for taking the trouble to read and reply. I'd really like to be clear which part of RFA he was in, and whether he was at Gallipoli with them or with Essex Regiment - then I can read more about...
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    Regimental Service of B W Adams

    Trying to re-construct WW1 service of grandfather (Benjamin Walter Adams 1877-1957) in the absence of Service Record. Clues as follows:

    Medal Record card – name written in red ink, also 'RFA Drvr...
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    Thanks for this - these look potentially...

    Thanks for this - these look potentially interesting. Have also looked at the out of copyright books on the BFHS site and am eagerly awaiting further back issues of Origins on their website. Still...
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    Thanks to all once again - am already a Bucks FHS...

    Thanks to all once again - am already a Bucks FHS member and have posted to their Forum too. Didn't know the archive.org ref, and what a clever idea to search the Bucks Library site - I did search...
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    Thanks for the suggestions - I had already looked...

    Thanks for the suggestions - I had already looked at Parish Chest, and on Amazon and abe , though I will re-visit the Victoria County History. I'm not so much looking for books written at the time as...
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    Books on Buckinghamshire

    Can anyone please recommend (to a Londoner living in Devon) one or more books on the development of Buckinghamshire, especially about the 18th and early 19th centuries. My DORRELL ancestors worked in...
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    Re last reply - forgot to add that I'm also...

    Re last reply - forgot to add that I'm also trying to integrate Posse Comitatus info and censuses where appropriate. Displacement activity ....?
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    Hi Cousin Not been on the Forum for a while so...

    Hi Cousin
    Not been on the Forum for a while so missed your post. Did I tell you in our off-Forum exchanges that I now have the Bucks FHS transcripts of baptisms, marriages and burials for DORRELL...
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    Interesting discussion - surprised it's lasted so...

    Interesting discussion - surprised it's lasted so long. Incidentally, Mahalia with an 'i' may also refer to gospel singer Mahalia Jackson who was on TV in UK quite a bit in the 60s. She may also have...
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    I really am intrigued to know what people...

    I really am intrigued to know what people want/expect from FHS Group Meetings. I go alone, and rarely speak to anyone - though if I volunteered for the tea rota/washing up I guess I might engage with...
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    Thanks for all the interest, folks! The (living)...

    Thanks for all the interest, folks! The (living) Mahala I know is Cornish and thought it was a family name (she calls herself May to avoid undue attention). However, the tree Mahalas I have are from...
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