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Very many thanks to everybody who contributed to this enquiry.
Of course Jack Shaw, his wife and daughter are now dead but I have met his granddaughter (my niece) her husband and their daughter who...

re irishmariners. I agree that the dates are wrong but also his seaman's number does not agree. I'm thinking about the oddity of having both land and sea campaign medals; there was a marines type...

Thanks, Sans Souci for the depth of investigation you carried out.

Elwyn Soutter has established the wife's name as Margreta.
He got a list of medals from WWI and I was able to get a copy of...

Elwyn; thank you very much and sorry for the delay in replying. I knew about John Wilkinson living at that address even before Jack Shaw died (credit company records) and I only knew Margreta's...

Sorry for the delay, Grisel. I have had an exchange of messages with the Orange Order central office and one of their historians. Unfortunately all records of that particular Lodge have been lost...

Elwyn. Thank you very much for your most generous offer. IF you go AND have the time:
John Shaw, born 1895 died June 21, 1950 at the Royal Victoria Hospital (more info about relatives in my reply...

Thank you, grisel. Yes, this is him. A different press cutting from about 1943 says that he was "divisional superintendant of the Belfast Corporation Electricity Department Division of the Order of...

To follow up, the lot did not apparently sell at the auction.
I found the record of two campaign medals (Mercantile Marine and British War Medal); he was actually recorded as born 1895 in Belfast...

Arthurk. Obviously you have gone to a lot of trouble; thank you very much. Unfortunately I know next to nothing. The town names you mention are meaningless in this area of interest. I was adopted,...

Thanks for the thought.
No to both. I have an age at death (which could make year of birth one of two years). The other problem is that he was probably born in Northern Ireland about 1898 and...

Thanks Arthurk. Unfortunately he died in 1950/1 and I have a copy of his death certificate, a Belfast Gazette announcement in 1942 and the press death announcement . Perhaps if I go back and visit...

Looking for any information on the family of John (Jack) SHAW MBE, electrician in the Belfast docks and Divisional Superintendant, St John's Ambulance Brigade, both in the early 1940's. Had a mother...

Looking for anyone with knowledge of Sadie Allen who worked on the farm at Grallagh in the early 1950's. I have a hunch that she was related to a woman who had moved to Omeath in the late 1800's

I'm David; I live in the UK and in France but my origins are County Louth, Eire. I am interested in three names:
Jonathan Abbott of Lambeth, born 1796 because I met a descendant of this man who...