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I HAVE BEEN DOING
RESEARCH FOR A NOT GR MEMBER WHO
FOR YEARS HAD A BRICK WALL
I LOOKED FOR HIS MILATARY RECORDS
FOUND AND HIS SIGNITURE
MARRIAGE CERT SHE HAD THREE
SHE HAD A LETTER

COMPARED SIGNITURE ALL PERFECT
AND ONE MARRIAGE CERT PERFECT MATCH

PAYS TO LOOK THERE IF POSSIBLE

It does indeed. ;)

For my mother's uncle who was killed in WWI at age 34 -- never married, no kids -- his attestation is just about the only proof of his existence! Other than a couple of photographs ... with him looking not remotely like anybody else in his family ...

Those danged Hill/Moncks ... Ernest Ross Monck (and that's as as may be) was the first child born to Ernest after he married as a Monck, and if anybody can find a record of his birth c1884 as anybody anything, I'll ... well, I'll hug 'em, how's that?!

But at least I know from the attestation how tall he was, and when he *thought* he was born ...

GOOD WORK CAROL

JEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED

Oh drat - I shouldn't have been so flip!

I'm so sorry Carol - those I do have - the 1901 England, 1911 Canada, WWI records - that's how come you were able to find them. ;) That's what I meant, the WWI record is the only evidence of his actual birth. ;)

Yes (your PM) - and isn't the guy with the same name and age in London just fun? He was also killed in WWI - I've been in touch with a descendant of his sibling. Until then, I'd almost thought my Ernest and Annie ran off with somebody else's kids, because the coincidences of the names of the numerous children in each family are quite striking!

I had been getting help from an older Monck expert in England with sorting out English Moncks, and I was able to show that the ancestorsof that other young Ernest Monck were an Irish couple who married c1843 in England whom he had not connected with the later London Moncks. Which unfortunately proved that the Irish couple weren't *mine*. ;) That turned out to be because my Moncks were not Moncks at all, but Hills ...

If you're fascinated by my Ernest, here's my thread about him:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=976217

"Ernest Monck, Australia sojourn"

You can ignore AuntyS's ponderings near the end of the thread ... she had just discovered that she too has a gr-grfather named Ernest Hill who is as complete a mystery as mine was!

Now you've piqued my interest with that 1910 guy in NYC - I may have to look at that one ...