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    Default COLQUHOUN, Thomas, b c1891, Mossley

    A few pages mis-filed in the CLA section of the WW1 Service Records (WO 363):

    Thomas COLQUHOUN (spelt CLQUHON) of 7 Cross Street, Mossley joined the West Riding Regiment on 15 March 1909, declared age 17y/18y 3m, born Mossley, Yorkshire.
    Regimental No: 565.

    Father (not named) lived at the same address, but no further information.
    (Birth not found in freebmd.)

    Anc****y, CLA, pages 209812 to 209818.

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    I've checked the 1901 census for anyone b 1891 +/- 2 in Yorkshire. No Thomas. There is, in different families, William and Alexander of the right age. There's a couple of Thomas Coulsons in different places when I switched on the similar, sounds like and soundex filters.

    Anc's BMD collection for TC over the whole of the UK 1891 +/-2 only gives 5 hits:
    2 births in Lanark and Woolwich, 2 deaths in Barrow in Furnace and Woolwich (the Woolwich B&D are 3 days apart, same middle name) and one for the 1939 in Lancashire.

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    There's a Thomas Colquhoun in 1939 born 3 Dec 1891. He is living in Mossley and a cotton wool labourer. There is an Elizabeth Wynne age 95 and single with them.
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    Thomas Cohoon Ashton reg dist (includes Mossley) March 1/4 1892 vol 8d page 547. Mary A wife of Thomas has the name Cohoon in green above the surname Colquhoun in 1939. On the GRO index Thomas' mmn is Grimes
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    1880 to 1892 there are two marriages with the surnames Cohoon and Grimes on the same page (FreeBMD)
    March 1/4 1890 Ashton William Henry Cohoon and Elizabeth Grimes vol 8d page 458
    June 1/4 1891 Ashton John Thomas Cohoon and Mary Grimes vol 8d page 712
    A Mary A Wynne married Thomas Cohoon in Sept 1/4 1916 reg dist Ashton 8d/843
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