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According to the 1939 Register, Emily Ditcher was born on 26 March 1915. On 21 May 1940 she married James Patrick Stephens at the Register Office in Rhyl, Flint. A daughter, Doreen, was born in 1940 in the district of Bale.
Despite this information, I have not been able to trace Emily’s death. It is possible that she could still be alive, although she would now be 102!
She was definitely alive in 1986 as she registered the death of her husband, James Patrick Stephens. I have visited Westminster Archives, which has copies of death registers from the General Register Office up to the present day, but I could not find an Emily Stephens with a birth date of 26 March 1915.
Any help would be appreciated. CliveStephens Winter War Volunteers, Finland bit.ly/2Apmwtl Does anyone have information on the lads who volunteered to go to Finland in 1939 when the country was invaded by the Russians?
My father-in-law, Peter Cooper, was one of the men, and according to Justin Brooke’s book The Volunteers he spent some time working alongside two others called Humphries and Maund, who tried to make their way back to England but disappeared.
I now have a possible eyewitness account of what happened to these men, and would like to try and contact their families. Grandy Reverend B Fielder bit.ly/2o9tO2L I am trying to find information on Reverend Benjamin Fielder.
From 1790 to 1800, he lived at 213 King’s Road, Chelsea, Middlesex. Thanks to british-history. ac.uk, I found that he “suddenly died at the pulpit” in 1803. He supposedly took over from Reverend Trail as minister of the chapel in Glebe Place, Chelsea, and is mentioned in the will of his son-in-law as receiving a tea set for his work there. I believe he came to be a reverend later in his life.
As Chelsea was a relatively affluent area, I thought there may be some more references to his work or how he came to be a nonconformist minister. Unfortunately I am drawing a complete blank and cannot even locate a burial record. LizzieBvB Regiment identification? bit.ly/2ApjsNO Is anyone able to identify the regiment/ranks of the men in this photo?
I believe the man with the moustache to be my great great uncle, Frederick John Jupp. I found service records for a man with this name from the same town, but there were some discrepancies. It gave a different address to that in the 1911 census, and different parents’ names.
I’m hoping to find out the regiment/rank of the man above to see if this matches details in his service records: Royal Engineers, rank of Driver or Pioneer in other parts.
I have another great great uncle called Frederick Hurst, who was in the Rifle Brigade and died of wounds in 1917. I thought it could possibly be him instead.
Any help would be much appreciated. lproudfoot