Happy birthday Schnurrbart. <|:)
They are all over the place these William Youngs, plague proportions. :)
Many thanks for that Sue and MollyMay, much appreciated. I had hoped you would say the father's name was anything but Will because there was...
It's on the second page and the fourth line from the top on that page. I can see Elizabeth daughter of ? Young was baptised????? Hoping someone...
I'll have to check if I have the Medal Cards for my three WW1 great uncles if not, I soon will have. :)
OK thanks Jan.
Haven't any experience of the N A, what sort of info am I likely to get from them?
Must admit the article I read, way back, didn't mention what animal the leather came from.
If he went AWOL from the army, calling himself and family Smith might be a good idea along with a change of location. :)
Been trying to remember where I read that piece of info, probably Google, one of my ancestors a William Searles was a Cordwainer which is why I...
Happy birthday Mugwortismy cat. <|:)
Jfyi, Cordwainers and Bootmakers do make the same products but a Cordwainer is someone who uses a special leather imported from Cordoba in Spain,...
Perhaps a badly written name might be responsible? I sent to the Chelmsford Registration Office for a Searles birth certificate, I received a...
A Wheelwright would be likely to get the local Blacksmith to manufacture the metal rim of the wheel so no reason a Carpenter couldn't make and...
Btw Moreton is only about 22 miles from Braintree, so perhaps your lot drifted south from where my lot hung out. :D
If ever you get stuck for a Boyton aka Boyiten aka Boyden There are plenty of them in Essex especially around the general area of Braintree. Your...
Oh, I thought they might have disbanded it after the O S versus Algerian independence shenanigans way back.
Lots of info but all you end up with is a first name, a place and a date, wonderful but as you say "our reality", very often. :D
Eve, you have wounded me deeply, if I were younger I'd do a Beau Geste and run off and join the French Foreign Legion, if they still have one....
I think Foreman and Slater helper too, the name definitely Thomas Fenwick.
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