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Very many thanks for the additional information, particularly his age at death from Scotland's People.
David

Thank you for your further help.
His death is noticed in the Naval Chronicle for July to Dec 1803, p. 517 but no age is given. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1760, which suggests a birth...

Same man, earlier in his career. The freedom was given for his victory on Lake Champlain in Oct 1776.

Thank you for the references.

David

The Caledonian Mercury for 20 Jan 1777 has, under the general heading of "Edinburgh", this report:
"Captain Thomas Pringle ... was ... complimented with the freedom of this city on Wednesday last."...

Peter,
Some good tips. Many thanks. Have now checked as suggested, but still a blank.
David

Flight Lieutenant Lovett-Davis (possibly Lovet-Davis), 1941/43 was second-in-command of a wireless-operators' course, somewhere in England, during the period 1941 to 1943. His wings show him to have...

Squadron Leader Apthorp-Webb (possibly Abthorp-Webb), 1941/43 commanded a wireless-operators' course, somewhere in England, during the period 1941 to 1943. His wings show him to have been a pilot.
...

Many thanks for checking the year of death.
David

Very many thanks. I had not seen this. Which year was it?
David

Thanks to both for your help.
David

Does anyone know where and when George Howarth Haydock died?

He was born in 1888. He attended Glasgow University, graduating there in 1912. He then studied at Mansfield College, Oxford from...

Very many thanks. This does, indeed, answer my original question. Exactly what I had hoped to discover.
David

Ray,
Thank you for your further interesting items of information.
David

Ray,
Many thanks for getting in touch. Yes, it is, indeed, Percy Grabham Simmonds in whom I am interested. Thank you for drawing my attention to his probate record.
With best wishes,
David

I would be most grateful for any help you can give in locating the whereabouts of Percy Gratham Simmonds (born 1886/7) in 1911, as well as any information on the people he was living with and what...

Once again, very many thanks to you both for all of your help.
Regards,
David

Many thanks to both of you for replying.

I am using Ancestry.

I have checked Arthur Whattey and can see how that surname could be conjured by an indexer out of Whatley. Arthur F Whattey...

Peter,
Many thanks. I have, however, looked at all of the page 22s for Fisherton Anger and still can't find him. What am I doing wrong?
Regards,
David

The FMP search index places Arthur F Whatley, born 1895, in the Alderbury, Wiltshire, census registration district for 1901. I have trawled the images for Alderbury, Whaddon and Clarendon and have...

Peter and Richard,
Thank you very much for your helpful replies.
With best wishes,
David

I am trying to establish the regiment which James Robert Parmiter served with and to discover the date of James' death - as his wife, Annie, is the only parent mentioned on the CWGC database entry...

Peter,
Many thanks.
David

On the 1911 Census.co.uk site does the heading "District/other" refer to the place of birth or of residence in 1911?
Many thanks,
David

Many thanks for all of your help. Katura appears to exist under a variety of names and spellings. I am much further forward with my investigations into her than I was this morning, so very many...

Many thanks for LITWEAH. I have since found that Ancestry has indexed her for 1891 as NETURAH.

If she married in Sherborne in 1903 as Kiturah why would she not have been required to use the name...