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anyone got access to ancestry.com
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CelticShiv | Report | 14 Dec 2007 21:36 |
i have access to UK but not .com. There is a canadian ww1 record for William Newlands Marr. I would be very grateful if someone could give me details. |
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MargaretM | Report | 14 Dec 2007 21:41 |
Attestation papers for Canadian soldiers in WW1 are free here: |
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CelticShiv | Report | 14 Dec 2007 21:44 |
thank you ever so much Margaret. |
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MargaretM | Report | 14 Dec 2007 21:48 |
Oh dear, I see that he was killed in the war, Siobhan. |
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CelticShiv | Report | 15 Dec 2007 16:22 |
Hi Margaret, yes I have just seen, is very sad. He was my great grandmother's brother. |
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MargaretM | Report | 15 Dec 2007 17:05 |
I see that he's buried in Edinburgh. Unusual for a war casualty. I wonder if he died there after being wounded? |
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CelticShiv | Report | 15 Dec 2007 20:39 |
Hi Margaret, his parents lived on bonnington road which is just by the rosebank cemetery in Edinburgh. I wonder if perhaps his parents just had a memorial put there for him. |
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CelticShiv | Report | 15 Dec 2007 21:11 |
okay my gran seems to think he died in a train crash in 1915 near the River Tay. I can only find one crash for May 1915 and it was the Quintinshill, Dumfries one on the 22nd, but he died on the 3rd. |
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MargaretM | Report | 15 Dec 2007 22:19 |
We're on the same wavelength, Siobhan, I thought, too, that he must have been killed in that train crash, I believe that there were a couple of hundred soldiers killed, but, as you say, he died before that happened. |
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MargaretM | Report | 15 Dec 2007 22:22 |
On second thought, Siobhan, I wonder if it's just a mistake on CWGC and he did die on the 23rd.as a result of that train crash. Especially since that's what your gran remembers. |
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MargaretM | Report | 15 Dec 2007 22:43 |
Just doing a little research on the train crash and William Marr was not one of the victims. There was however a George Marr, 24 Main St., Bathgate, West Lothian. Hope he wasn't another rellie. |
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CelticShiv | Report | 15 Dec 2007 22:59 |
Yes I did wonder if perhaps the date of death was wrong. Most stuff my gran has come out with has turned out to be correct. I suppose she can not be spot on for everything. |
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