An overview of my Brits

[Ed_Haynes]

Good work, Leigh!

[leigh kitchen]

Receipt for Cpl Brown's Military Medal

[leigh kitchen]

All down to computers - but it's always nice to find a Service Record given the amount lost forever in 1940.

I'll see what the 1901 Census has...

I just read this one & thought it worth posting now - Frank Oswald Brown, "Man in Australia". Looks like he's trying to sort out his pension, records having been lost / mislaid.

Edited July 27, 2008 by leigh kitchen

[leigh kitchen]

Could be our man.......

Name: Frank O Brown

Age: 9

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892

Relation: Son

Father's Name: James T

Mother's Name: Eliza

Gender: Male

Where born: Lewisham, Kent, England

Civil Parish: Christchurch

Ecclesiastical parish: Christchurch

County/Island: London

Country: England

Registration district: St Saviour Southwark

Sub registration district: Christchurch, Southwark

ED, institution, or vessel: 2

Household schedule number: 2

Household Members: Name Age

Eliza Brown 35

Frank O Brown 9

James T Brown 40

James W Brown 10

Millicent L Brown 12

Elizabeth Jones 75

The second address refers to the above family:

Edited July 27, 2008 by leigh kitchen

[leigh kitchen]

Hmmm not a lot better.

32, Blackfriars Rd, Southwark, Frank O Brown is the 5th name down, a son of the household,aged 9, born Lewisham, Kent

Edited July 27, 2008 by leigh kitchen

[leigh kitchen]

And a check of the 1891 Census shows the family living in the same area, at 61, Cressingham Rd, Blackheath, but without the unborn Frank & without his maternal grandmother living with the family yet.

Living with them is a Kate Daw, (reads like "Day" rather than "Daw" on the scan of the original document)14 years. Her relationship to the head of household, James T Brown, an iron plate worker, is given as "serv", her occupation as "general domestic servant".

James T Brown

Age: 30

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861

Relation: Head

Spouse's Name: Eliza

Gender: Male

Where born: Southwark, London, England

Civil Parish: Lewisham

Ecclesiastical parish: St Stephens

Town: Blackheath

County/Island: London

Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Registration district: Lewisham

Sub registration district: Lee

ED, institution, or vessel: 4

Household Members: Name Age

Eliza Brown 25

James T Brown 30

James W Brown 8 months

Millicent L Brown 2

Kate R Daw 14

Edited July 27, 2008 by leigh kitchen

[leigh kitchen]

GREAT BRITAIN - 1914 Star, named (block) Dvr J Niblock R G A

R Williams, 1986

A seperate thread on Niblick could be handy too - only found his MIC so far:

James Niblock, also served as number 308017, as Graham said.

Rose to Bombardier by the end of the war, awarded the Territorail Efficiency Medal as well as his 1914 Star trio.

No indication that he ever claimed his clasp & roses:

[leigh kitchen]

Reverse of MIC:

[leigh kitchen]

There are no "Niblocks" listed Service Records listed on "Ancestry" yet, & the few listed under "Pension Records" don't include this man.