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Finding Naval Records
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Samantha | Report | 9 Nov 2012 16:54 |
I have recently found out that my great grandfather was a stoker on hms osiris 11 during the first world war, how can i find out more info without a service number? |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 9 Nov 2012 17:01 |
His record should be available for download on the National Archives website - cost £3.36 (am assuming he was Royal Navy) |
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George_of_Westbury | Report | 9 Nov 2012 17:05 |
Try the National Archives |
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Cynthia | Report | 10 Nov 2012 11:56 |
Hello Samantha and welcome to the boards. |
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Samantha | Report | 10 Nov 2012 15:17 |
Thanks all, I do not know his DoB or place of birth, I have the hms osiris info from his sons(my grandfathers) birth certificate, its says he was a stoker and was a miner. I have found someone with same name who was a stoker and previous occupation was a miner but was on HMS victory 11 but cant be sure its him. His name was charles mckenna and he married in Blandford Dorset in 1916, my grandfather was born in 1918 and Charles occupation at that time states Hms Osiris. |
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Andysmum | Report | 10 Nov 2012 15:34 |
HMS Victory was the Shore Base in Portsmouth and during the war would have been full of sailors waiting to be sent to ships - in this case, HMS Osiris. |
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Chris Ho :) | Report | 10 Nov 2012 15:37 |
Marriages Dec 1916 (>99%) |
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Samantha | Report | 27 Nov 2012 12:01 |
Hello, Yes i have his marriage certificate, he was a stoker in royal navy in 1916 aged 22 when he married Hilda and his fathers name is John Thomas Mckenna but im still stumped!.I have researched national archives but cannot find any trace of him, not on any census and cannot find his birth. Where do i go from here??? |
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Potty | Report | 27 Nov 2012 12:10 |
Could he have been Irish? What is his father's occupation on the marriage cert? |
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Samantha | Report | 27 Nov 2012 12:21 |
I have searched scotlands archives but have no idea of the country he was born but he could be irish! His father was a coal miner and that is also his other occupation on his sons birth certificate. The men that i have found on navy archives that could match him are too young. |
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Potty | Report | 27 Nov 2012 12:34 |
This John is a coal miner: |
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Samantha | Report | 27 Nov 2012 12:43 |
It sounds good but his son Charles stated that when he married in 1916 he was 22, this would mean that charles would have been 17 in 1911 census and not 14 |
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rootgatherer | Report | 27 Nov 2012 12:49 |
Who were the witnesses at the marriage please? |
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Samantha | Report | 27 Nov 2012 12:53 |
Witnesses were her mother mary j watts and william a florance jones. I have no idea as to a death date or place. I have a feeling that they were scottish or irish but what has frustrated me most is the inability to find charles in the navy records! |
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Potty | Report | 27 Nov 2012 13:16 |
Where did you get the info on the man who was on the Victory? |
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rootgatherer | Report | 27 Nov 2012 13:20 |
I am sure that you will have the following but may help for the search for Charles. |
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Samantha | Report | 27 Nov 2012 13:30 |
I did download this, it is very hard to read but shows he was on the victory and valhalla but on his sons birth certificate it says hms osiris, still not sure its him!!! |
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Potty | Report | 27 Nov 2012 13:56 |
Did he stay in the Navy? If he left after 1923 his record will not be on the NA. |
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rootgatherer | Report | 27 Nov 2012 13:58 |
This Stoker Charles McKenna was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire 11/03/1898 |
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Potty | Report | 27 Nov 2012 14:03 |
Could be this one: |