Naval question(s).

[samesizedfeet]

Originally Posted by Merry

I don't know about that really......Imgine if he wore them for parades and the like and then suddenly they were gone.

I now have a vision of someone marching with a dinky toy dangling from his jacket instead of his medals

[Olde Crone]

*Wonders if it would be acceptable to use thumbscrews and an interrogation cell in the pursuit of genealogical information*

She has now remembered that he was a Submariner and the two medals were for bravery. There was some sort of fire on the submarine and he rescued two shipmates despite being severely burned himself.

She has also remembered him saying there were twins in his family and that would account for the two children being born in 1898 - I'm just off to investigate deaths.

OC

[Val in Oz]

Good luck with this one OC, it looks as though you might eventually find out a lot more if you can just be patient and wait for her brain to sift through the information she has locked away in there!....and NO, thumbscrews are not acceptable - just yet.

[Olde Crone]

OH NO!!!

I have just managed to open the link Kate gave upthread......I have been following completely the wrong man!!!!!

Kate's one was born 12th March....that was the date his daughter gave me as his birthday, so it has to be him.

Forget Pauline and her exotic life, wrong family totally. A lesson in making the facts fit the story here, blush blush.

I am just about to download his record, but before I do, it is asking me to select a format...which one should I choose please?

(Thankyou again, Kate, for finding him...how on earth did you do this?)

OC

[Merry]

So, this is yours?

Image details

Description Name Brown, William Alfred
Official Number: J33820
Place of Birth: Edmonton, London

Date 12 March 1899
Catalogue reference ADM 188/714
Dept Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
Series Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services
Piece 33501-34000
Image contains 1 document of many for this catalogue reference


From previous experience of a few of these records for OHs family, every single one of them (we only got four, but even so, 100% of those) had a year of birth on the service record one year before their actual year of birth (or was it that the indexed year was wrong?). I don't know if we worked out why that was, but in any case it may well be that his actual date of birth was 12th March 1900 not 1899.

[Merry]

lol!!:

1)

Name: William Alfred Brown
Year of Registration: 1900
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Edmonton
County: Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex
Volume: 3a
Page: 409


2)

Name: Alfred William Brown
Year of Registration: 1899
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Edmonton
County: Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex
Volume: 3a
Page: 431


Have you purchased the service record? If so, is there a written dob on it?

[Merry]

From the 1901 census:

I think William Alfred Brown b in 1900 was actually born in Tottenham which is in Edmonton district, but would he then say he was born in Edmonton?. His parents are William A and Mary B both born around London (not France! lol)

I'm struggling to be sure of the right candidate for Alfred W b 1899.

[Merry]

In 1911 there are no Wm or Alfred Browns who actually give Edmonton as their place of birth who are the right age!

Don't suppose there is any next of kin recorded on the service papers?

[Merry]

I remember on one of the other threads you said something about someone coming from or living in Plymouth.

In 1911 the William Alfred Brown who was born in Tottenham had moved with his family (William Arthur and Mary Beatrice and siblings Edward, Frederick, Beatrice and Dorothy) to St Thomas District in Devon (not sure that is very near Plymouth though?!!).

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Olde Crone

I am just about to download his record, but before I do, it is asking me to select a format...which one should I choose please?

What formats is it offering you?

(Thankyou again, Kate, for finding him...how on earth did you do this?)

I just went through searching for Alfred William Browne, William Alfred Browne, Alfred William Brown, and so on, till I found one born on the 12th March. I do hope he's the right one!