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No more please, for TNA Kew next week.

Hi DaveatHove,

I wonder if you can find anything out about my ancestor Nicholas Smith Kirkland. He was a Captain in the Light Dragoons roughly between the years of 1811-1835?

I would love to know where he fought and if he fought in the great wars around the beginning of his career.

His name is quite uncommon so I'm hoping that you may have some success.

Thanking you kindly for your offer and also the time that it may take,


Dee x

Thanks Denise
I will have a try and let you know one way or the other.
David

Thank you David, very much appreciated.

Dee x

Hi Dave,
This may be outside your remit but I'll give it a shot -
My Grandfather Arthur Fensome b. Kimpton ,Herts 15/8/1879, often said that he trained as a horticulturalist at Kew Gardens (probably between 1900 and 1910). He went on to run a Nursery Garden in Dinas Powis,South Wales and was a recognised expert in several areas. If the staff records of Kew are held at TNA it would be great to know one way or the other. You're the one who said "difficult or interesting" - so it's over to you.
thanks

Brian
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Sorry Brian, not at the TNA, why not write to Kew Gardens?

Treacle

John Wilson is a bit common. Do you have any more information, date of birth place etc.?

Thanks anyway Dave,

Brian

Hang on you are offering look ups but won't look if they are boring......well they might be to you but not to someone else

HI DAVE ,THIS MIGHT BE A LONG SHOT BUT ANY INFO IS GREAT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR INFO ON MY GRANDFATHER WITH NO LOOK !!!
HIS NAME IS ALEXANDER ALLAN BORN BEATH SCOTLAND 1899

HI DAVID THIS MIGHT BE A LONG SHOT BUT ANY INFO HELPS I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR MY GRANDAD WITH NO LOOK AS MY FATHER AND OTHER FAMILY DIED YOUNG THERES NO ONE TO ASK. I'M LOOKING FOR ARMY RECORDS FOR ALEXANDER ALLAN BORN BEATH SCOTLAND 1899 MOVED TO BURNLEY LANCS 1901 HE JOINED ARMY WW1 AND WAS REPORTED DEAD BUT TURNED UP AFTER BEING GASED THERE WAS RUMOURS HE WAS IN THE BLACK WATCH? HIS FATHER WAS ADAM SNADDON ALLAN AND DECEASED MOTHER WAS ELIZA THANKS FOR ANY HELP IF YOU GET TIME TRICIA

Hello Dave
Please could you have a look for a Seaman by the name of John Frost. This was the occupation given on his sons Birth Cert. in 1846.
He was not listed on the 1851 Census although his wife gives her status as married and a son is born that year.By 1861 she is widowed.
John would be about 30-35 at the time of the 1851 Census.
Thanking you in anticipation for your kind offer.
Chris

David,

I'd be very interested in finding out if there are any post WW2 repatriation records for my father in law. He was a prisoner of war from 1940 and some of the prisoners from his last camp were involved in the Long March.

Private Leslie Joseph Miller
Service number 5382843
Oxon and Bucks Light Infantry
POW no. 10763
Last camp held was Stalag 344 Lamsdorf
DOB 30th (sometimes 31st) December 1918

This is what it says on the TNA website about these records:

The record series WO 344 consists of approximately 140,000 Liberation Questionnaires completed by British and Commonwealth servicemen, with a few from other Allied nationals and merchant seamen.

The files WO 208/5437-5450 contain the second, more specific, 'pink' questionnaire that followed on from those in WO 344 . They were made by individuals identified by MI9/IS9 lists as having been directly involved with an escape organisation or who had some other significant function within the PoW camp's internal organisation. The form consists of 25 questions relating to topics such as: the work of escape committees; escape aids and their usefulness; German censorship; receipt and dissemination of coded messages; collection of geographical information that might assist future escape attempts; and internal communications.

A card index to additional more comprehensive Liberation reports in WO 208/3328-3340 is held in the Research Enquiries Room at The National Archives. While these two series of reports are duplicates, researchers are advised to order both copies as the second series in particular can include Appendices. Additional detailed Liberation reports for camps in Germany are held in WO 208/3341-3342 ; an incomplete nominal index is contained in the first of these files.

It may be too tricky, but even if you can't find anything would be good to know how accessible these records are in case I manage to get to Kew in the near future.

Many thanks

Helen

wonder if you would look up Land Army women at Kew believe it to be on microfilm,

Jeanette

Hi wonder if you have time to look for a Walter Hurkett no sign of him after the 1911 census, no war or death records.



Walter Hurkett born 1888 Enford Wiltshire Enlisted in the Militia Wiltshire 13th dec 1906

Militia records 1881-1908 WO 96 series are held at NA Kew


Thank you Annabel

Cant understand why this has been nudged up

jax

Annabel has apparently nudged it up for someone who was asking about Militia records but I don't think it's relevant.

Hi i wander if you can help me my husbands grandfather JOSEPH HICKEY
BORN 1876 AND LIVED IN 62 North Dingle Liverpool at the time of birth he went away to sea
he married Caatherine Madden had two boys born 1899&1900 in 1891 Catherine was liveing with her mother at 35 Sessions road Kirkdale with the two boys Patrick and John. we was told Joseph Hickey had died in.
New Zealand is there any way of finding out.we think he may of died about 1891to1892
JEAN

Jean

This is an old thread would be better to start one of your own


jax

hI jAX I DONT KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN BY A OLD THREAD I HAVE SENT YOU THE MESSAGEI KNOW THERE IS OTHER FAMILY DOING THE SAME TREE MAYBE THEY HAVE SENT YOU THE SAME MESSAGE.
JEAN