Our friendly and popular online forum is the perfect place to share problems, get advice and help others
David Cronin bit.ly/david-cronin
The first record I have seen of my 2x great grandfather David Cronin is in a Baptism record (Irish, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655–1915) of his daughter Mary dated 17 May 1862. This was at Passage West, Cork, Ireland. His wife is noted as Ellen Clahane.
He then has a further three children born and baptised in Jersey in the Channel Islands: David in 1863, Ellen in 1865 and Patrick in April 1867.
His next child, John, was born in Bristol, UK, in January 1869, as were the remainder of his children. David stayed in Bristol for the rest of his life and died here in January 1905.
All censuses say he was born in Ireland, but the 1901 one says it was Waterford, Ireland.
His death certificate in 1905 says he was 60, so born 1845. Census ages vary between a birthdate of 1836 to 1845.
Ideally, I would like to trace a marriage or even better a baptism for him, but I don’t know where to start looking.
Finding a marriage may prove particularly tricky. The mother of all of his children is named Ellen, but on the birth certificates or baptism registers she is noted with a surname of Clahane, Cain, Kane, Cane, Caghan, Keogh or Kaye!! Take your pick.
Any help will be gratefully received. Thanks.
Beverley Stephens
George Alfred Sprigg bit.ly/sprigg
CAN YOU HELP? To respond to these, and other postings from the forum, go online and register
My father was in the Army in the Second World War, but I have not been able to find any records of his service, and nothing from the attached pictures (one is shown above) to find out what regiment he was in. Any help gratefully appreciated. He was living in London at the time and given he was born in 1925 I suspect the pictures are towards the end of the war.
John Sprigg
Croix de Guerre bit.ly/croixdeguerre
An ancestor of mine Charles Hardwicke was a surgeon with the French Red Cross between 1915 and 1918. He served in France and then Macedonia with French Colonial troops. In a newspaper article he says he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for personally supervising the evacuation of over 150 badly injured men under heavy shelling and machine gun fire. I can’t find any reference in the London
Gazette or elsewhere online. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Are there records available to search in France? Laneside
The Tamlyn family bit.ly/tamlyn-family
I’m trying to trace the Tamlyn family in the 1891 census. The father (William Henry, born 24 May 1855), mother (Elizabeth Mary, born 25 January 1850) and their three oldest children were present in the 1881 census.
However, in the 1891 census, while the father, those three children and one of three younger children are present (at 3 Binford Place, Bridgwater, Somerset), the mother (Elizabeth Mary) together with Elizabeth Ethel (age nine, born 6 January 1882) and Tryphena Marguerite (known as Daisy, less than a year old, born 5 June 1890) are all missing.
The mother and the baby reappear in the family in the 1901 census, and the nineyear-old in the 1911 one. I’ve searched extensively for the three of them in the 1891 census, but without success. I’ve tried all the suggestions in the very useful article by Sarah Williams in the February 2019 issue of
WDYTYA? Magazine, including using alternative databases, lots of possible name variations, numerous wildcard combinations, using initials only, etc.
Mark49
John Thomas Broughton bit.ly/broughton-query
I am researching my ancestor John Thomas Broughton who died as a POW on 24 October 1918 and is buried in Hamburg. He was the brother of Charles William Broughton. Does anyone out there have a photo of him? AmandaClements