Who When Where

I couldn't find my village at all in the 1921 census - looked up my house and discovered that the village name had been mis-transcribed (using sc instead of x) - so I submitted error reports for several of the houses, all of which were politely acknowledged and changed. I haven't looked subsequently...

Thanks so much - I have found the census info - and found my relative

A recent short article on the website of WDYTYA? magazine is entitled What Canadian census records are available? Rosemary Collins writes that 1921 records are available on Library & Archives Canada [LAC], Ancestry and MyHeritage. She also mentions that the 1931 census has just been released and...

Amazing! Solved in minutes ... she married James Cramond in 1960! Thank you so much

Hmm but for someone so firmly based in SE England, it seems odd to get married in Scotland ... that's love I guess

A very distant relative, Jean Lesley Macan, is shown in the 1939 Register as a pupil nurse in Henley. Her birth date is given as 13.7.1913. Her name is modified on the Register, suggesting marriages to to Candler and Cramond. I know that she was married to Albert C Candler in 1944 - and then divorce...

Thanks again!
I wonder where that book is lurking in the Imperial War Museum?!!

Ooh, thanks for remembering my grandfather! The QUB archivist (recent email correspondence) did not apparently have any more information than the dates and courses registered for, and directed me to the same webpage that you have found. I was disappointed that the Roll of Honour was not searchable. ...

My grandfather was a member of the OTC (Officer Training Corps) at Queen's University, Belfast in the academic year 1914-15. He reported to Trinity College Dublin in the summer of 1915 and was sent 'straight to unit' - an infantry regiment from where he served in Egypt and then the Western Front. Th...

Hmmm ... well, surely that's why we have witnesses - who presumably can sign their names, and testify that the will is made out correctly. Same with marriage certificates.
Are there any examples of witnesses who can't sign their names? I would expect rather few.

Absolutely agree, it could easily be a D - this makes sense