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Post by broomy on Oct 12, 2010 12:01:56 GMT
Am looking for any information i can get on Samuel Charles Parkins. I'n not quite sure WHEN he was born but he was a 'boy soldier' in WW1----he was born in Hayfield and we think he MAY have died in 1926. Also i'm looking for the correct quarter for the death of Harry Parkins (Sams brother) who died (Salford?) 1924---1926. Thanks for any help at all.
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Post by Ben on Oct 12, 2010 14:46:30 GMT
Samuel C Parkins died age 29 Sept 1/4 1926 Salford Vol Page 255 Can't see any Harry Parkins who died in Salford for that time only 1 in Sheffield and another in Chelsea but both these are 1927?
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Post by broomy on Oct 12, 2010 15:04:32 GMT
Thank you Ben ----thats a great help. At Bristol central library tomorrow--can start looking for his birth. My Aunt is 91 and still lives in Salford..Sam was her dad.
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Post by Ben on Oct 12, 2010 15:09:25 GMT
1911 shows a Samuel Parkins born 1897 Hayfield Derbyshire.
Possible birth for him?
Mar 1/4 1896
Samuel Parkin Belper Derbyshire 7b 585
But is missing the S off the surname Parkins
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Post by Hawker Hurricane on Oct 13, 2010 21:11:54 GMT
Brilliant work Ben. You'd already done all the work by the time I read the thread. I've only found the same results for Samuel, and nothing which looks right for Harry.
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Post by broomy on Oct 30, 2010 19:00:22 GMT
I can't get over the revalations on the Weaste cemetary memorial------Sam Parkins married the widow of James Duckworth. on the CWGC site just says ''husband of F Duckworth'', but i'm absolutly convinced it's Fanny my maternal g'mother. His name is only mentioned on the memorial, he's not buried there., nor does it say where he died. I think it may have been in Blamford army camp in Dorset. When i was a little child i can remember mum telling a story that her mum told her-----there was somebody in the family who ''went away a perfect man and came back a perfect mummy''. If he died at Blanford there must have been an inquest surely. Would he have gone to Blamford from abroad? Then his body back to Salford (or, as i'm beginning to think) Hayfield.? Where is he? If he's back in England why hasn't he got a CWG?
You wouldn't believe how much i'm bubbling about this.
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Post by bomber on Oct 30, 2010 19:02:57 GMT
Broomy, I will do a Newspaper search when I go to the Library next, I will try and get there this Wednesday afternoon - we will figure it out
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Post by broomy on Oct 30, 2010 19:12:43 GMT
Just found this
Surname Given Name Age District Volume Page Transcriber
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deaths Jun 1918 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Duckworth James 35 Blandford 5a 257 chippygill
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Post by bomber on Oct 30, 2010 19:21:56 GMT
I have tried looking for his service record, but not getting anywhere at the moment
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Post by shred on Oct 30, 2010 19:30:00 GMT
Debs,
From memory the Ancestry service records are Army they do not cover the RFC/RAF, National Archives is the place to search.
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Post by shred on Oct 30, 2010 19:35:36 GMT
Sorry,
If they were transferred from the RFC to the RAF or only served with the RAF the service records would have been transferred away from the Army records.
"The service records of RFC airmen who either died or were discharged before the creation of the RAF in April 1918 are listed along with those of other soldiers in WO 363 and WO 364 (Service records of soldiers in the British army). If an individual remained in service after that date, his record was transferred to the RAF.
The service records of RFC officers during the war can be found in either WO 339 and WO 374 (the main holdings for service records of British army officers) or AIR 76. Arranged alphabetically by surname, AIR 76 contains the records of those officers (both RFC and RAF) who left the RAF by early 1920. For further information, see military research guide 49."
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Post by shred on Oct 30, 2010 19:42:54 GMT
Looks like a visit to Kew may be involved, see here
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Post by broomy on Oct 30, 2010 19:43:24 GMT
Rocket science
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Post by bomber on Oct 30, 2010 19:52:35 GMT
Okies looking on there now
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Post by bomber on Oct 30, 2010 20:05:56 GMT
I can't find a thing, will definatley try newspapers this week, see if they can throw any light on anything
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