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I'm trying to find my great grandfather frederick corrick. He was born in 1908 but was born in india as his father was in the armed forces and i don not know how to find him or his parents information. He moved to plymouth and married a Ruby Alice Vosper but apart from knowing what my family say i cannot seem to get any info regarding his parents so i am stuck. if anyone could help i'd grately appreciate it.
viv

How about this
1911 census
MILITARY CORRICK ALICE F 1907 4 Weymouth Dorsetshire
MILITARY CORRICK ELIZABETH F 1884 27 Weymouth Dorsetshire
MILITARY CORRICK FREDERICK M 1909 2 Weymouth Dorsetshire

No father/husband with them though

Do you know when Frederick got married or what year approx, their first child was born ?

found Frederick J Corrick in Army births 1908 station Poona Page 475

also two Alice's both born 1906 but it doesn't say which station but the regiment was the 13th
sorry nothing else
also NO Army marriages for the surname Corrick

Dear Vivien

Not sure what details you have on your great grandfathers family though looking at the details supplied to you (below) from the 1911 census if this is the correct family then this might be the family:

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Sep 1905
CORRICK Walter George Plympton 5b 455
CLIMO Elizabeth Plympton 5b 455

Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Births Jun 1906
Corrick Alice Florence R Devonport 5b 305

Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page
Births Sep 1911
Corrick Wilfred H Climo Weymouth 5a 566

Births Dec 1912
Corrick Sybil V Climo Taunton 5c 478

Births Dec 1913
Corrick Frank Climo Taunton 5c 480

Births Mar 1915
CORRICK Lily E Climo Devonport 5b 542

Other children may have also passed away because I note a Beatrice May born in 1909 in Weymouth and passed away in 1910, Olive M born 1910 passed away 1911.

Maybe the above might fit with other details you have of your family.

Best regards

Gillian

This is the only Corrick birth in Weymouth for several years after the 1911 census:

Births Sep 1911
Corrick Wilfred H (Climo) Weymouth 5a 566

I'd make it good odds that this was a sibling of your Frederick.

If the birth certificate shows that the father's occupation was military, I think you could be pretty certain, and that would give you his mother's name.

This would seem to be the Corrick-Climo marriage to match that birth:

Marriages Sep 1905
> Climo Elizabeth Plympton 5b 455
> Corrick Walter George Plympton 5b 455
VINEY Winter Plympton 5b 455
WESTERN Clara Catherine Plympton 5b 455

There are also Corrick-Climo births in Devon in Dec 1912, Dec 1913 and Mar 1915, and several Corrick births in the same locations between 1905 and 1911.

Here we go; in the 1911:

MILITARY CORRICK WALTER 1881 30 Weymouth Dorsetshire

Looks like that's them!

Several great minds? ;)

Frederick Corrick married Ruby A Vosper
July - Sept 1935, Devenport
Vol 5b Page 902

If you buy this marriage certificate then it will tell you the name and occupation of Frederick's father

Searching for births for Elizabeth Climo -- it seems to be an exclusively Cornwall surname. This would be the Elizabeth in question:

Births Sep 1883
CLIMO Elizabeth Launceston 5c 22

Well that's another brick wall demolished well done everyone ;-]

Births Dec 1881

CORRICK Walter George Taunton 5c 353

I won't go any farther with the families unless you want help with that, since the fun is in the finding, in my view.

For Cornwall, you should be able to go way back. Here's a very useful site, especially when you get back before 1837/1841:

http://www.cornwall-opc.org/index.htm

There is a group of Online Parish Clerks who make a wealth of records available on line and/or are available to help with lookups, depending on the parish.

For example:

http://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/searchdb.php?dbname=baptisms

there are 83 Climo baptisms in the database, going back to 1742.

If this is the correct family then Frederick's father passed away during the war:

Name: Walter George Corrick
Birth Place: Taunton
Residence: Leigh Camp, Wilts
Death Date: 16 Sep 1914
Enlistment Location: Taunton
Rank: L/Corporal
Regiment: Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)
Battalion: 3rd Battalion.
Number: 5180
Type of Casualty: Died
Theater of War: Brough - Sic

Name: CORRICK
Initials: W G
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Somerset Light Infantry
Unit Text: 3rd Bn.
Date of Death: 16/09/1914
Service No: 5180
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Con. C. 3502.
Cemetery: PLYMOUTH (WESTON MILL) CEMETERY

Best regards

Gillian

I always say: there just aren't enough Devon/Cornwall questions here!

The pity of it is that Cornwall has the best records available on line. Possibly partly because it's such a relatively small data set ... hence the relatively low number of requests for Cornwall help ... ;)

Btw -- Vosper is another long-standing Cornish name, so there will be a wealth of records available for Ruby Alice's family as well.

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deleted - added to wrong thread, duh

thank you all very much, we never knew why my great grandfather died etc, now we know!!! wow! well, in fact this week i went to the cemetry and found his grave. although im not sure what brough sic meant in the theatre of war bit on his record. the next step is to find out if he died in action or just in service!
thank you all again for your help,
viv

Someone may be able to help with that question Vivien. The theatre of war, when I've seen it, usually tends to refer to the staging point in Britain, e.g. Aldershot.

Here we are:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1129119

Could be the staging point, could be a hospital. Nobody seems to know for sure. ;) I might go with the hospital theory.


The "sic" means there's something wrong with the "Brough". It's been abbreviated or misspelled or some such.

Aha. Google google.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID
=a207af641598a156430f8005c9f53594&topic=347346.0

One theory is that the whole thing can be laid at Ancestry's doorstep.

In that particular case, where it says "Brough-sic", someone says it should say "Home". That sounds like it might be the case for your Walter.

Another one:

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t111523.html

It apparently is Ancestry, and it's causing no end of people no end of consternation.

Read it as "Home", I'd think.