Thanks everyone for your help.
It is funny when, once you know what it is, it's so obvious !!!
Sadly he died in 2014 but I found his son on Facebook last night.
So all's well that ends well ☺
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- Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:36 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can anyone read this surname
- Replies: 11
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- Sun Jan 10, 2016 6:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can anyone read this surname
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1680
Re: Can anyone read this surname
Sorry for the delay in answering but I've been out all day. After much looking and checking out siblings marriages and looking again and again at the surname........ I have figured it out !!!! I was so fixated on the Sewer / Lewes/ Lewis bit of the surname, then I thought what if the C isn't a middl...
- Sat Jan 09, 2016 9:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can anyone read this surname
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1680
Re: Can anyone read this surname
Hi , thanks for the reply.
It is 1965 - the signatures on the page are look like the informants writing and the rest of the info the registrar's writing.
It is 1965 - the signatures on the page are look like the informants writing and the rest of the info the registrar's writing.
- Sat Jan 09, 2016 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can anyone read this surname
- Replies: 11
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Can anyone read this surname
Can anyone read the surname on this cert please.
It's George P C .......... ?
Cheers, Carole.
It's George P C .......... ?
Cheers, Carole.
- Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:09 am
- Forum: Scottish Catholic Archive records
- Topic: Catholic records
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2608
Catholic records
Hi, thanks Andrew for your reply :wink: Anne, i did email SP and got this : Hi Carole, thank you for your e-mail. The reason there are 2 entries for Alexander Gifford , is that there are 2 volumes for St Peter, and records are repeated, but I am unsure why at the moment this has happened, and this m...
- Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:21 pm
- Forum: Scottish Catholic Archive records
- Topic: Catholic records
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2608
Catholic records
Good evening all, I had a look on SP at the Catholic records and i'm a bit confused with the results. No Birth Baptism Surname Forename Alias Parent Names Sex Parish Image 1/ 27/06/1859 03/07/1859 GIFFORD ALEXANDER - EDMUND GIFFORD/MARY GRANT M BUCKIE, ST PETER'S VIEW (PAID) 2/ 27/06/1859 03/07/1859...
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger list query.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 569
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger list query.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 569
Royal Navy
Do you think R.N.R.7 means he was in the reserves and not the Navy proper ? As i said before in Dec 1917 he stated on his marriage cert that he was a railway porter - no mention of being in the forces. What did people do if they were in the reserves ? Surely being Naval it would have something to do...
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:25 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger list query.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 569
SS Megantic
The ship was the SS Megantic and below is what i found out when i googled it. He was in the 1920 census in Bridgeport,Conn and his occupation then was a checker (no idea what that is - keep thinking checkout at the supermarket !) He travelled in the February and his wife travelled in the August - bu...
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Passenger list query.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 569
No he was on his way sailing from Liverpool to Portland having left his last residence in Keith where his wife was. She actually sailed from Liverpool to Quebec later that year (August 1919) to join her husband) He was a railway porter in December 1917 --- so unless he joined up 3 years into the war...