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Haylett family - police in Norfolk also seeking information on Robert a Prison Warder
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Have tried out what your local library service offers?
Hertfordshire has the Times Digital Archive and the C19th British Library Collection available from home; as well as Ancestry.com if I visit my local library (and book a computer time-slot).
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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Hello Naomi
I was wondering whether it is possible to get Prison Warder service records, Robert followed a line of two Police Officers, so interesting he almost followed in their footsteps! Interesting too that he moved from Norfolk to Dorset, quite a stretch, excuse the pun!!!! I also wondered about his family, his wife Lily was from Dorset.
Kind regards, Rachel
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Thanks Christine, I might try writing to the prison too to see if they have records but we may be talking less than 100 years so they may be reluctant to share service records, the problems of 20th century research!!!
If ever your Bennett research links to Lincolnshire, let me know, have links there!
Kind regards,
Rachel
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If ever your Bennett research links to Lincolnshire, let me know, have links there!
At the moment, I think there could be Lincs connections, but only transient ones... that I haven't found yet. In the 1911 census, my great-grandmother (Hannah BENNETT, née BOOTH) was long-since widowed, but (helpfully) listed her children numbers: total born alive (10), still living (6) and dead (4). From that I know that I have not got a full list of siblings for my grandfather: I have only four altogether. My great-grandfather (George BENNETT) was a labourer, which means that the children were born all over the place. My great-grandfather, himself, was born in Leicestershire, but his children were born in Bolton (Lancs ~ 1871q4), Masham (Yorks ~ Nov/Dec 1873), Glossop (Derbys ~ Nov/Dec 1880 - or possibly Jan 1881) and Handsworth (Birmingham ~ Mar 1887). The marriage was in Tipton, Staffs (14 Dec 1862).
George, himself was born in Leics, but some of his older siblings were born in Bradford, Yorks.
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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Thank you, Rachel.
Good luck with your hunting, too!
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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Originally posted by ukfamilyhistory View PostRobert Henry Harding joined the Royal Artillery in October 1891, as a Gunner - leaving there on 16 October 1903, and moving to Portland Prison as a prison warder, but I think staying as a reservist, would that make sense?
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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