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Hello lovely people ,I wonder if anyone would be so kind to do a look up for me..
I’m looking for the parents and possible siblings for an Alice Helen Chesser born 1932 in Aberdeen ..I think at some point in her life she joined the army or air force
Thanks

Look for her birth reg on Scotland’s people. Free to search, but EVERYTHING else has to be paid for. It isn’t a subscription site

For such a recent event, your only option will be to buy the cert……no download available

Seems to be on ER to 2016

Quite possibly alive…unless you know otherwise

That I’m not sure of..if she’s alive or not..
I did look on scotlands people,I thought I could of downloaded the cert,but sadly no,
I’m not too sure where else to look unfortunately

There isn’t anywhere else.

Unless you write a very carefully-worded letter to the last address the ONLY answer is buying the cert

Are you related?

There is no online record of that address having been sold, unless possibly in the last few months, so unless she was only renting, she may still be there.
She was living at that address since at least 2006.


ADDED:
Actually, she probably is/was renting. That building is a block of one-bedroom flats, originally meant for women aged over 60.

This article from 2021:
https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/articles/tree-planting-marks-esslemont-legacy-as-soroptimist-tenants-join-osprey-housing

No death on SP, but one assumes Sue has got that far

Listed with Helen M Chesser, William L Chesser, and William L Chesser junior:

Alice H Chesser
in the Aberdeen City and Former Counties of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1832-1976
Name Alice H Chesser
Record Type Electoral Roll
Residence Date 1965
Street Address Abbotshall Drive, Cults 33
Residence Place Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Parliamentary Division Parliamentary County of Aberdeen; Kincardine: Western Division

If that's the same Alice, (and she seems to be the only Alice H Chesser ever to be recorded as born in Aberdeenshire) this is her parents' marriage:

CHESSER, WILLIAM LORIMER
MAITLAND, HELEN MARY
1915
168 / 3 / 173
Rubislaw


William was born 1889 in Aberdeen, mmn Milne. He died in 1967 in Peterculter West.

Helen Mary was born in 1889 in Aberdeen, and died in 1969 in Peterculter.

Alice's brother William was born in 1916 in Rubislaw reg district, and died in 1985 in Aberdeen.

William seems to be the only sibling.


Alice was still living at 33 Abbotshall Drive until at least 1975, by that time with only her brother.
Her brother doesn't appear to have married, either.

This garbed bit of computer-transcription is probably Alice's birth notice:

BIRTHS. • . . . . . —7l Hilton Road, Aberdeen, on 25th . * (j. • 1932, to Mr and Mrs William L. Chesser, . . . . .
Published: Tuesday 29 March 1932
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal



William L Chesser [and Helen M Chesser ]
in the Aberdeen City and Former Counties of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1832-1976
Name William L Chesser
Record Type Residence
Residence Date 1933-1934
Street Address 217 Back Hilton Road.
Residence Place Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Parliamentary Division Aberdeen

Original on FMP

To Mr & Mrs William L Chesser a daughter, both well

192.com has a listing for Alice H Chesser in Aberdeen. May/May not include telephone number.

So, a lot of info available after all. Pays to search ;-) ;-) ;-)

Thank you for all your help, You have all given me something to work with, I shall continue to search for any other information on her.
Thank you :-)

CHESSER/ MAITLAND - at Aberdeen on the 28th Aug, by the Rev James S Stewart, Private William L Chesser, 3/4th Gordon Highlanders (T) to Helen Mary, elder daughter of the late William Maitland, Aberdeen.
Aberdeen Press And Journal
31 Aug 1915

First name(s) William Lorimer
Medals awarded British War Medal And Victory Medal
Last name Chesser
Remarks Class Z. (A R). 27-7-19
Disembarkation year -
Archive The National Archives
Disembarkation date -
Archive series WO 329
Rank Acting Sergeant
Archive reference WO 329/1742
Rank as transcribed A/Sgt.
Record set Britain, First World War Campaign Medals
Service number 37861
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Regiment Machine Gun Corps
Subcategory First World War
Previous unit 37861 M G C. Pte.
Collections from Great Britain, UK None

The brother's Military Service?

First name(s) William Lorimer
Name Chesser, William Lorimer
Last name Chesser
Places Italy
Service number 78318
Start date 01 Jan 1945
Rank Captain Temporary Major
Taxonomies C10092 Army, C10131 Europe and Russia, C10060 Medals, C10075 Operations, battles and campaigns, C10136 Official publications, C10065 Armed Forces (General Administration)
Year 1945
Theatre Military Cross
Country Italy
Archive The National Archives, Kew
Regiment Royal Regiment Of Artillery, 75 Heavy Regiment
Series title War Office And Ministry Of Defence: Military Secretary's Department: Recommendations For Honours And Awards For Gallant And Distinguished Service (Army)
Corps Royal Regiment Of Artillery, 75 Heavy Regiment
Series WO 373
Covering dates 1945
TNA reference WO 373/11/219
Department WO
TNA title Recommendation for Award for Chesser, William Lorimer. Rank: Captain Temporary Major. Service No: 78318. Regiment:...
Description Name Chesser, William Lorimer. Rank: Captain Temporary Major. Service No: 78318. Regiment: Royal Regiment of Artillery, 75 Heavy Regiment. Theatre of Combat or Operation: Italy. Award: Military Cross. Date of announcement in London Gazette: 19 April 1945.
Record set British Army, Recommendations For Military Honours And Awards 1935-1990
End date 31 Dec 1945
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Context War Office and Ministry of Defence: Military Secretary's Department: Recommendations for Honours and Awards for Gallant and Distinguished Service (Army). COMBATANT GALLANTRY AWARDS. Italy. 19 Apr-24 May 1945.
Subcategory Medal Rolls and Honours
Gazette announcement date 19 April 1945
Collections from Great Britain, UK None

First name(s) William Lorimer
Where serving General Duties Branch-Pilot Officers
Last name Chesser
Record set Royal Air Force Lists 1919-1945
Rank Pilot Officer
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Year 1941
Subcategory Regimental & Service Records
Event date 18 Feb 1941
Collections from Great Britain, UK None
Section title Gradation Lists by Branches of Officers Serving on the Active List of the Royal Air Force

As she didn't marry, and is still living (unless died in just the last few weeks) there are no further online records for her.
A Google search doesn't come up with anything.

The Scottish 1939 Register isn't searchable. You can apply to see her entry - but for a fee, and only after she has died, and if you know her exact date of death. Even then, it would only be her personal record - not of the whole household.
From the information already discovered, the household would consist of Alice, her parents, and her brother, unless he was away. He was a Lieutenant in the RA in 1941.

What are you hoping to find?

If you're hoping for a service record for her, it won't be online.

She's still living, as far as anyone can tell from online records.
Why not try writing to her, as already suggested?


Is it only Alice you want to find out about, or are you also interested in her ancestry?

Born in 1932, she doesn't appear on ERs until 1953, when she's 21.

1953, she's at 209 North Anderson Drive, with her parents, brother William - and (aha! ) another brother, Robert C Chesser.

Robert Charles Chesser, born 1921 in St Nicholas reg district.

Robert's marriage:

CHESSER, ROBERT CHARLES
FORBES, ESTHER ISOBEL
1955
168 / 1 / 17
Aberdeen Northern District

Death:

CHESSER, ROBERT CHARLES
86
mmn MAITLAND
M
2008
301 / 350
Aberdeen

His wife died in Aberdeen in 2007.

They had a son, Graeme .
No other records for him on SP.
Living in Aberdeen in 2008. No other Chessers listed with him.

ADDED:
Still living in Aberdeen..
He has a Facebook page, and various other Google results.

Oh wow,! Another brother, thank you so much for that..
I would love to be able to find out more about her life, she is a distant aunt, nobody can find out much about her life, there was a rumour that she was in the forces for a while and had visited family in America ,but how true that was I don’t know..she doesn’t live at any of the addresses for mentioned, which makes me think she is either deceased or in a nursing home .x