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You guys are magic!!! There are some red herrings there (Clement for one) but the rest are sheer gold. I had many of the census entries but a lots of new stuff there. It will take me a week to get my head around it. I particularly must find the author's biographies book!

Thank you all so much

Eddie

HI Everyone I am researching Melville Salter Chaning-Pearce born 1886 died 1969. You'd have thought with a name like that he should leap off the page at you. I have his wife's name as Doris and a date of death of 1966 (he remarried the same year aged 83!) but I need to find her maiden name. They had...

Thanks everybody. I've looked at that site and it seems very useful. Dromore is only a few miles away so I'll take myself off there and see what i can find. I also looked for any record of a Samuel Gracey born 1902 but found nothing. However there was a Samuel Stewart born 3rd Q 1892 and registered ...

Sorry to be thick but can you give me a link to the IGI please?
Eddir

Any ideas anyone?

Hi Guys Some general advice on a Northern Ireland family research problem would be very gratefully received. My wife's great great grandfather Samuel was illegitimate. He appears in the 1901 Census of ireland like this: Elizabeth Stewart 72 HoF Ann Eliza Gracey 30 Daughter Samuel Stewart 9 Grand Son...

Mark, That's magic because it gives me his original Regt as well, although the title 41st of Foot should have disappeared in 1881!!! Eddie PS - just occurred to me that perhaps there are no more records in the Army series because he transferred out of the British Army to the Indian Army at some time.

Thanks

They were:
Leonora May - 1903
Cynthia Mabel - 1906
Hedley Percy - 1914
Eric Bertram - 1916

Eddie

Jimmy that's amazing thank you so much, I must investigate the link you sent me more carefully! It looks very useful.

Thanks again

Eddie

Hi Guys

can someone advise me where I can find the records of BMD in relation to servicemen abroad - and in particular India.

Specifically I am seeking information about the marriage and children of Hedley Charles Parks and Julia Rodgers possibly in Simla C1900 to 1916.

Eddie

Does anyone have a copy of the Cheltenham College Register covering the year 1894?

If so could they please have a look for a chap called L SPEAKMAN who won a Military and civil Department Prize that year.

Thanks

Eddie

Late update This whole tale is a Red Herring follwing misinformation from the PP OCA. MJ and WJ Landesrs were quite different people. Here's the real story: William Joseph Landers British Warder Palestine Prisons Security Officer Foreign Office William Joseph Landers was born in the Townland of Knoc...

Thank you. That makes complete sense of my puzzle.

Hi can anyone tell me when the Birth Indices started listing the mother's maiden name?

Eddie

No ideas? Even the most off the wall idea?