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Two Different Christian Names
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Pete | Report | 16 Jan 2007 11:50 |
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Len, Whilst not wishing to spoil your track record in only receiving responses from female members, I wondered if I may add something. WW1 medal card records are available on the National Archives documentsonline website. You may be able to locate Percy's details and get his regiment and number from that. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/ I assume that your father's name is Percy (percival) BOLT. There are 5 hits for that name on the WW1 medal cards. By crossreference to the WW1 war dead listed on the CWGC website you should be able to exclude those who died. Also, the familyrelatives website has a pay-to-view database of soldiers of the Great War. Again, you may find his details there. https://www.familyrelatives.org/treequest/jsp/customer/index.jsp Pete |
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Leonard | Report | 16 Jan 2007 11:31 |
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Hello Laura, Jan and Stella Just a line to say thank you for your advice. I thought that you always had to use your full name on official document's including christian name's. Anyway I am glad I posted my message as I had three replie's, all from ladie's and I have never had that many get in touch with me in one go in my life, that made my day. Anyway thank you again. Best Wishes Len |
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Star | Report | 14 Jan 2007 19:24 |
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Have you searched all the censuses for your father? Have you searched ' institutions' ~ This is where more than 100 occupants could have been like, Army Barracks, workhouses, hospitals Etc. My Gt Grandad was in the army in 1881 he was from Norfolk and it says on the 1881 census that the street address was ~ nrth camp Aldershot A B&C lines, and that he was in the Private 56th Regiment at the time of the census and in Hartley Wintney Farnborough. Whether this was the ww1 or ww2, I don't know. I don't know where there are any military records online that you can search? Sorry I couldn't be of any more help!!! Hope you find what you are looking for. Kind Regards ~ Stella. |
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Laura | Report | 14 Jan 2007 19:01 |
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HI Len Percy is short for Percival, so maybe he gave one name for one occasion but the full name for the other? Laura |
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Leonard | Report | 14 Jan 2007 18:57 |
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Hello everyone Could anyone please explain why on my father's birth certificate, on the 1901 census and on my mother's death certificate my father's name is shown as Percy, this is the name my father was alway's known by but on the marriage register it show's Percival. Any idea's Also I know my father was in the army in WW1 I think he saw action in France but I am not sure. He lived in Edmonton, Middlesex would this have meant he would have been in the Middlesex regiment?. I was going to the record's office at Kew which is a bit of a journey, I do not mind going but I am worried that with so little information It would be a wasted journey pluss I know so many record's were lost in bombing raid's. Could anyone have any idea's about where I could make a start. Thank you Len |
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