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Janey - lucky you to find something on those pension cards. After all the fuss, when I got a free weekend on Fold3 to check those for my lot, the cards had virtually nothing beyond the basic name, address and serial number. A string of illegible codes and signatures (must have been the doctors! :) )...

I've tried Ancestry and FindMyPast and nothing seems to be coming up for your GF. I've tried searches with his number (mostly on FMP, which does better with them) and without it, also trying various wild-cards, including Glo* for the regiment. Logically, this suggests that he never left the UK, whic...

It's been a while since I've worked with death certificates in ScotlandsPeople and I suspect that I'd forgotten the tricks I used when tracing my Bruce relatives. I was looking for the death certificate of an Isabella Brown nee Low. I'd know the DC when I saw it because I knew her parents (both of w...

If memory serves, it was a 1911 census entry for Brixton Prison which contained the "refused to give name" remark. ... Ooh, that does sound odd. Maybe he was just on remand? Maybe they'd had a job lot in from elsewhere, so they didn't yet know who was who unless they admitted it? Hmmm - I...

... I've also seen prisoners who refuse to provide their name and other particulars in census returns. ... I would have thought that's more likely to be the prison's admin staff - certainly at one time full names of people in institutions weren't given. But the admin staff would, by their very natu...

So, to list what we know given that we have confirmed the date of death earlier: The Manchester Burial Records are on https://www.burialrecords.manchester.gov.uk/ . These show that: Albert Edward Morse was buried at Southern Cemetery in grave SConsecrated (is that section S, Consecrated graves? not ...

Basically, all detailed personnel records are still held by the Ministry of Defence. It's not impossible that odd bits can be found outside the MoD in naval newspapers, say, but the full story - for reasonable privacy reasons - remains at the MoD. So that's why it's very unlikely that you'll find an...

... which therefore means, to state what is presumably obvious, that she was supposed to be registered in the Reg District of Oxfordshire - hence the GRO entry is as expected according to Antony's rules. Presumably, the way it's worked these days, they have registrars in both the areas around Oxford...

Here's what UK BMD has about Bullingdon on https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/bullingdon.html BULLINGDON REGISTRATION DISTRICT Registration County : Oxfordshire. Created : 1.10.1964 (out of Ploughley & Bullingdon registration district). Abolished : 1.10.2001 (to become part of Oxfordshire re...

Always worth a look in the FamilySearch Catalogue for the place. Try https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog , enter Bawburgh and see what you get. The description of the parish registers does appear to have that gap referred to above. However, there are also Archdeacon's Transcripts for Bawburg...