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You have my email address Jock so if I or we here can ever be of help on anything you run into, don't hesitate to ask - I can always post in your thread to call in the troops. ;)

You can also still use the GR private-message system to communicate with anyone you've already been in touch with here even after your paid account lapses.

Be sure to keep your email address up to date in your GR account. That way if anyone does contact you through this system, you'll get the notice by email.

Gest wishes!

Hi Jock

I was wondering how you were getting on with your search.

Did you ever get in contact with the library for the Electoral Roll for 1952 - 1954 to see who else was living there then?

Good luck Jock, hope you find some more answers.

Mary

Hi To everybody
This is my swansong from Genes as my subscription runs out tomorrow 27 April 2010
I will be able to be found at Ancestry under Barnes-Wilson family Tree.
I have found it a better program and better searching the message boards don't look so good though.
A BIG THANKYOU to all you wonderful people who helped me find my mother,sadly I only seem to be able to get as far as 1953 at the moment, thats the problem with been common and Wilson too flipping many of them.
Lots of love and thanks to all.
Jock

Hi All
Just a quick update
Gave instructions to 1st Locate to try and trace my Mother, Sadly this has come to nothing, they don't charge if they don't find,so their comunication is short and sweet.
Dear Mr A Barnes-Wilson

Thank you for your recent request for a trace with 1st Locate UK Ltd. Unfortunately we have been unable to locate your subject. We have no further information.

Please note that we will refund your payment shortly. Please allow up to a maximum of 30 days for the refund to show back into your account.

This might well be as far as I can go without spending a fortune.
Only time will tell.
Albert

Thanks Mary
Will check that out tomorrow
Jock

Hi Jock

Sorry, I didn't come back to your thread until today :-((

This Brompton Library appears to be the most local library to Cromwell Road. Their contact details and email address are on there. It would be worth ringing them 1st to see if they hold the Electoral Rolls for 1952 - 1954. If they don't have them, they should be able to tell you who does.

They may make a charge, some do some don't.

http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/leisureandlibraries/libraries/yourlibraries/bromptonlibrary.aspx

Good luck.

Mary

Hi Mary
No I never did anything like that, would not know where to start.
How does one do that sort of thing.

Hi Jock

Just seeing this thread again reminded me.........did you ever do an Electoral Roll look up for the address Sarah was last known to be at in 1953? It might be worth it to see who else was living at that address and to see how long she was there until.

Mary

Thanks Janey
That was not really for you, more for any body else searching the name as we did a lot of searching for her as Barnes Wilson and she was only Wilson and I did notice that the tree I am attached to on Ancestry have been searching the Long Name which will obviously be a waste
I did have a look at those sites, sadly none state they were up the Clyde could have been in the navy part that is not released yet

Jock - ? different names? You lost me. I meant I googled "Rex Fitzgerald" (as explained in my email), if that's what the confusion was. I know Sarah's name(s) by heart, trust me!

I hope you do try the official sources I gave you links for -- the problem for US WWII records, for anybody reading along, being the same as in England for WWI records: a huge majority of them were destroyed in a fire in 1973, I think it was.

Received from Kathy
Hi Albert

I was reading your post on trying to find and thought I would have a look .

This may be a total red herring but I couldn't find a Rex being described as a negro on his enlistment papers .
I found a Roy R Fitzgerald with parents Leon and Mary .He was born 1906 in Texas .The census was so faint it was impossible to read .
He married Grace V Dale in 1925 in Texas .
He enlisted 1942 nabrasca and described himself as single .

Some one has a tree on ancestry which shows that he had a daughter Shirley Jean Fitzgerald born 1935 in Washington .

As I said this could be way out but I checked and he died 1985 in Spokane Washington and not the date given on that list of dead fitzgeralds ( can't remember the date now )

So could he have been Roy Rex ???

Sorry if you have already thought this one out and eliminated it .
Kathy

Thanks Janey
At the risk of repeating things I should explain the following about Sarah
She was Christened Sarah Elizabeth Wilson
She signs her Name Sarah Wilson
On my birth certificate she called herself Sarah Elizabeth Barnes Wilson
Hope that clears up any thoughts regarding different names being used.

Jock, googled the name and saw your genforum posting.

http://www.txgenweb6.org/txcolorado/cemeteries/alleytoncem.htm#F

Fitzgerald, Rex; born: Dec 14, 1906; died: Apr 13, 1956;
Son of Leon and Mary Fitzgerald, veteran of World War II

also

Fitzgerald, Ruth; born: Aug 25, 1909; died: Jan 28, 2004;
Daughter of Robert and Luvenia Bratcher, married Rex Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald, Edward; born: Feb 8, 1935; died: Dec 30, 1975;
Son of Rex and Ruth (Bratcher) Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald, Ulysess Yogie; born: Oct 22, 1940; died: Dec 22, 1998;
Son of Rex and Ruth (Bratcher) Fitzgerald

But this is the one your responder said was described in his enlistment record as "Negro", so he is beyond unlikely as a candidate.


The other person mentioned was a Rex J Fitgerald born 1928, for whom no WWI record was found - unsurprisingly, as he would have been 17 when the war ended. Sarah herself was born 1918.


Just wise to make sure that searches done elsewhere are known to anyone trying to help in this thread.

Have just received reply from Salvation Army with the return of my Cheque
as the are unable to help me as my parents were not married.
Something to do with somebody who does not know about me might open the letter.
This could have unwanted reactions, so the answer is no
Jock

Thanks Janey
Have decided that it is Rex at the moment so did Elaine the Archivest
Got to start somewhere

I've emailed you some info about places you might try, for info about Fitzgerald. The one completely unintelligible thing on the page, and it's his first name (or rank, can't even tell).

The info was right there all along. But in the meantime, all the searching we have all done in your threads has been confirmed by this document, and it does confirm the info you used for finding family; hopefully you can find more.

Sarah Elizabeth Wilson what I now know about her.
Information Received 12 January 2010
This is verbatim
10:30 am 3rd June 1944 Applied for Poor Relief
Name Sarah Wilson
Birthplace Monmouth
Age 25 DOB 27/10/1918
Condition Single
Occupation Domestic
Religion Protestant
Parentage of Applicant and circumstances of parents
Father Daniel Wilson whereabouts unknown
Mother Charlotte Maud Barnes deceased 6 years

Name Ages Birthplace, and if working, earnings of family living with applicant.
Robert ? 18/03/1944 @ Stobhill Hospital
P F (Pise or Pix or Rex ) Fitzgerald American Soldier (named as father)
He knows of her condition , his present whereabouts is unknown
Not Supported
The P.F is short for Putative Father
I have only now realised that Boarding out is exactly what it says and the mother pays towards the childs upkeep
Jock

Atleast he didn't blame the snow lol its got the blame for everything else.

Happy New Year Jock and Janey

Jackie

Spoke to him today, said he sent it last Tuesday?, I said I hadn't got it yet, he said its not on my desk now?. Remembering this is the same man that kept telling me the record did not exist for the last 4 years,????.
He did say that if I did not get it he would send it again Recorded Delivery.
So I think I will give him till Thursday, and chase him again, might even have to threaten him with setting Janey loose on him.
Jock

Tell Mr Neil he'll be hearing from me if he doesn't get moving!

That should scare him straight. ;)