Police Constable in 1861 to Messenger in Brewery in 1871?

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Nell

You would need to get his police record to find out if he left of his own volition, or was dismissed. Policemen of that time were regularly penalised for being drunk. Or maybe he was injured in the course of his duties and unable to work as a police constable?

Nell

How do I do that?

Can't get to Kew.

[Nell]

Margaret

Your chap wasn't in the Met so his records wouldn't be at Kew. If they survive they should be either at the relevant county records office OR still held by the relevant police force.

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Nell

Margaret

Your chap wasn't in the Met so his records wouldn't be at Kew. If they survive they should be either at the relevant county records office OR still held by the relevant police force.

Thanks Nell.

Highly unlikely for me to be able to go to Stafford. It's not even my tree, LOL, it's my cousins.

It doesn't answer your question, Marg - but this is quite interesting http://www.staffordshire.police.uk/about_us/history/

Don't know whether they would be able to help

Edit - I see the surviving records are at the records office - http://www.staffordshire.police.uk/a...ce_collections

[Margaret in Burton]

Thanks for that Joan

The chances of me getting to Stafford are zilch though. As I said, it's not even my tree.
I'll leave this bit alone for now I think. It's up to my cousin if she wants to investigate it further.

[Mary from Italy]

You don't need to go to Stafford in person - your cousin can e-mail them. They do charge for research if it takes up any time, though.

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Mary from Italy

You don't need to go to Stafford in person - your cousin can e-mail them. They do charge for research if it takes up any time, though.

She's on holiday at the moment Mary, I'll mention that to her.

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Langley Vale Sue

Marg

Is this your tree on Ancestry?
http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/138...erson/17315604

It shows George Harvey married Ann Salt in 1837 in Gnosall, Staffs.

I've just been checking that tree. Errrrrmmm, if that is the same George Harvey that they are trying to make out it was then Ann was about the age of 12 when they married in 1837.

She's 27 in 1851 and 35 in 1861. George was born in 1813. I have his baptism in Lichfield and they have it in Dilhorne, nowhere near to where he was born.

I don't think he married Ann Salt.



Edit

Just found the birth of John Harvey in Gnosall in 1845 on StaffsBMD. Gives mothers maiden name as Gregory not Salt. Now to try and find a marriage.

[Gert in Oz]

Marg...Check to see if there is a police museum for the area, i have 2 policemen in my tree, i got one lot of records from Derby RO and the other from Birmingham police museum.

[Margaret in Burton]

Ok Sylvia

LOL

I've just found his grandson in Stafford Jail in 1881, his grandfather was dead by then.