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Help to trace Richard Prior c 1919

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brummiejan

brummiejan Report 2 Sep 2012 15:56

Have you done a google search for Johannesburg newspapers? They will have contact details and very likely have some kind of archives.
There is also the national archives - they seems to have a lot of stuff and you can contact them also - try here:

http://www.goethe.de/ins/za/joh/wis/wtl/arc/enindex.htm

Jan

Researching:
Myatt, Hanks, Eccleston, Powell, Clungunford, Birmingham

Jennifer

Jennifer Report 2 Sep 2012 15:45

Yes that is all I have got Jan, but if he did end up in South Africa, anyone got any ideas on how I can track him down?

Jenny

Jennifer

Jennifer Report 2 Sep 2012 15:45

Yes that is all I have got Jan, but if he did end up in South Africa, anyone got any ideas on how I can track him down?

Jenny

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 2 Sep 2012 14:55

This seems to be the Richard Jennifer has in her tree:

Name: Richard A Prior
Mother's Maiden Surname: Hanson
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1919
Registration district: Weymouth
Inferred County: Wiltshire
Volume Number: 5a
Page Number: 416

Jan

Researching:
Myatt, Hanks, Eccleston, Powell, Clungunford, Birmingham

brummiejan

brummiejan Report 2 Sep 2012 14:52

I think he was born in Dorset Gins.

However, I am thinking Jennifer is trying to find out about his life, rather than his Ancestry?

Jan

Researching:
Myatt, Hanks, Eccleston, Powell, Clungunford, Birmingham

Gee

Gee Report 2 Sep 2012 14:15

Do you know where he was born and who his parents were?

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Jennifer

Jennifer Report 2 Sep 2012 13:42

Been trying to track down this ancestor of my Husband. we believe he joined the Merchant Navy and that he ended up in south Africa as a music Critic on a news paper in Johannesburg. I have been unable to find anything to verify any of this ...any one got and suggestions

Thanks