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Thank you Thunder

I am gradually working my way through all the relevant TNA records, compiling a list so that my husband and I can spend a day researching at Kew checking them out, but it is taking a while.

Thanks Mo I had forgotten about WDYTYA and having just had a quick look there are some I definitely haven't tried. I am going to spend the next few days gathering together all the websites I can find, however obtuse, and do a really deep search through them systematically to see if I can add to my r...

Forgot to mention I have also found at TNA Ref ADM 267/126
Various reports relating to 1940 in WW2
When I return from my next babysitting stint I will endeavour to make the trek down there to view this record. It may provide answers.

Re George Sidney Jopling, Merchant Navy, Rank - Engineer Discharge A No. 728800 ID cert no 715815 I am slowly piecing together my husband's Grandfather's merchant seamen's records, but I am struggling with his service in the RNVR in WW2 I have scoured TNA, National Maritime Museum, and FMP websites,...

Looking at the original entry it reads Leicester Street and not Lincoln Street.

Looking at the GB1900 map for Bulkington most street names are places eg Coventry and Leicester but Lincoln isn't on there and neither is Church. Not all roads have been identified.

There is a community Forum on Facebook who may be able to offer some help.

As a generalisation you will come across discrepancies in this census just as you will in any other transcriptions. It is so much easier when you know what the record should say than if you are reading it "blind". I always look at the original record but even then people filling out the fo...

I found two other baptism of the period for a Samuel Alcock, both in CROPWELL BISHOP, Nottinghamshire, which is south east of Nottingham 19 Jan 1745, parents Samuel and Mary, no evidence of a burial 26 Jan 1746, parents Samuel and Mary, could be same baptism because of the year endings but the actua...

Hi Thunder Do you know if TNA are operating a death rule for accessing Army Records? We tried to access my husband's Grandfather's record but after a very long and protracted process (might as well have done it the old way!) were told we couldn't access it until 2028, which will be 30 years after hi...

At a loose end this morning I decided to trawl the FMP newspaper records for the umpteenth time for our nearest and dearest and up popped a new obituary for my husbands Great Grandfather, adding a few more snippets to our already substantial biography of the Man. This included the fact that he had b...