Genealogy Chat

Frank

Thank you so much for that address I have just checked it out and have found my great uncles grave and am going to order a copy of it as no-one has ever been able to get there as it is in India.

Sal

The CWGC wrote to the families of all servicemen killed in WW1, but didn't write until about 1920 and only to the last known address. If the family had moved, they never got the letter. The letter asked them what information they would like recording, such as his home town, parents or wife's name.

Three of my rellies had no information on the CWGC site because the families had moved, and one's details gave his stepmother as his mother. I got them all amended completely free of charge, but I did have to send a lot of evidence, e.g. copy certificates, newspaper cuttings of the funerals/marriages of family members, as they must be sure they are adding these details to the right person. I sent it all on a CD. It took about 3 months to be processed and I was well pleased to know that these brave men are now properly acknowledged after nearly 100 years.

I was very careful with the one whose stepmother was given, as she was the lady who brought him up (his mother died giving birth to him), and was a good stepmother, but I first checked with all known living relatives, and his record now shows his birth mother as well as stepmother.

It's a wonderful website, and I know they are pleased if people can fill out the gaps for them (with that important evidence). You can print off a picture of the cemetery, and information about it. I sent them a donation to help with their further work.

Frank,

I will check that site out thank you.

Sal

The wife remarried I have found the records both locally and nationally as she was actually the one directly related to me.

I am trying to tie up some loose ends as to the deaths of people, I also found the death of her second husband.

When she remarried she used her married surname and when she married for the third time she used her second marriages surname but I do know it is the right person because she was my dads aunt and one of his older cousins remembers her and the two children from her third marriage.

Hope that makes sense.


Sal

Here's a site which may be of interest to you.
It has photographs of individual war graves from WW1 onwards......

http://twgpp.org/index.php

How/where did you find the subsquent marriages of your soldier?Was it official or was it family knowledge--I've often wondered about the young widow of my great-uncle. Although there were so many young men killed that history tells us very many young women couldn't find a husband after the war,it still seems strange that she "disappeared" into thin air.I visited his memorial,I'd like to be able to 'visit' her too.

Hi,

After reading the replies on here I think I might have found out why there is no next of kin down.

His wife remarried twice after he died the first time was after 3 years so I guess they might not have been able to find her because they wouldn't be able to, or want to trace her like we do.

Sal

from the cwgc site.

'Who We Are'

'"Established by Royal Charter in 1917, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. It is a non-profit-making organisation that was founded by Sir Fabian Ware. "

i have founjd family information for all my relitives (lucky me) along with information on which cemetary they were comemorated at.
well worth a look
jeannie

I believe the families were asked to provide information after a mans death. If they chose not to, for whatever reason, then no details would appear on the CWGC site.

Maybe his records were among those destroyed as his brother in law who died around the same time, although they were in different regiments, has all his details including parents, wife and where they both lived at the time of his death.

I really should have remembered that most of the records were destroyed.

Thank you.

Sal

I have found a relation on the CWGC site and they give no family details for him, wife or parents, I know he was married at the time, does this mean he did not tell them at the time of enlistment or would there be some other reason.

I do know quite a lot about him and his family, before and after the war, so I am not really looking for any information about him.

TIA

Sal