This may well be a case of teaching Granma to suck eggs ... after reading pages & pages of records it has only just sunk in with me, so maybe ...
If you're looking for a Service Record in the name of MAHONEY and can't find it - try MARNEY.
There are many MARNEYs in WO 363 (what Ancestry calls the "WW1 Service Records")that are not traceable on freebmd, etc - because the name MAHONEY has been mis-written by the Army clerks (and it is never corrected).
For example: Thomas MAHONEY 1883-1916 (WW1 Service Records, MAR, pages 78478-78514)
Jane
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Thread: Looking for a MAHONEY?
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30-08-2019, 2:23 PM #1
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Looking for a MAHONEY?
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30-08-2019, 5:52 PM #2
Good point, Jane!
It's also true for many other names - for example, anything ending in ..ay or ..ey which can also be .ie or ..y...
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30-08-2019, 7:29 PM #3
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It's not only the Army who get things wrong. For some reason known only to themselves the Navy changed my grandfather's Christian name from Harold to Horace. If it hadn't been for the fact that he also had two other Christian names, one of them being his mother's maiden name, I doubt if I would have found him.
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