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Looking for the Berry
family in 1939 bit.ly/berry-1939 Can anyone trace Horace L Berry (born 1892) and his wife Alice Mary Louise (born 1887) on the 1939 Register?
Their daughter Barbara was born in 1917 and married in 1946. Her married name was ‘Rich’. She married in Bournemouth, so I don’t know if the family were in Hampshire by 1939 or even whether she was still living with them.
Horace and Alice were married in Norfolk in 1917 but were originally from Berkshire. They were back in Berkshire by 1920.
In other words, they seem to have moved around a lot so I can’t even pinpoint which part of the country they might have been in. phsvm
Crimean War 1854 –
Mercantile Marine bit.ly/mercantile-marine My great great grandfather, Peter Campbell, was born 1 January 1825 at either Inveraray or Tarbert, Argylleshire, Scotland (depending upon the source of the information).
His obituary says that he was engaged in the Mercantile Marine during the Crimean War and that he entered Balaclava Harbour with the First Transport (transporting troops to the seat of war). He was wounded and sent to hospital where he came under the care of Florence Nightingale. He sailed for Australia the day peace was proclaimed in 1856.
Can anyone please tell me where I can find more information about his time in the Mercantile Marine? Do service records exist that could help us to identify ‘our’ Peter Campbell? KatieJB
Irish parish registers –
sponsors bit.ly/parish-sponsors In Irish parish registers from the 1810s onwards, does anyone know if female sponsors at baptisms and marriages typically used their maiden names? Or once married, did they list their married name? This would make a small but significant difference to tracing sponsor names.
Also, has anyone found any rules of thumb for the relationship with sponsors? My sense is that they were generally siblings or cousins of the couple being married, or of the parents at a baptism.
I’m looking at County Cork in particular, but this may not matter if there’s an allIreland approach to sponsorship. Thanks for any thoughts! RobOH RAF pilot ID bit.ly/raf-pilot-id I am hoping to identify the pilot in this photo, which belonged to my late mother-in-law, Sima.
She was a young hostess at the Music Box Canteen in New York City in the early 1940s, and I can only guess that she met this flier when he was going to or returning from training in the US and they became pen pals. Perhaps she knitted his scarf?
It looks to me like the inscription reads “Sima – love Trevor” (or perhaps Steven?), and he is standing on a dirt road with a fence and Quonset huts behind – probably an airfield.
Any help with his ID or location would be appreciated! PR_56