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KevinStoke .
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 175
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:22 am Post subject: 2 to find |
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Can anyone help me find any of these 2 soldiers and a positive link to either Kilbirnie or Glengarnock.
They are
Private John Barbour RSF &
Private Andrew Boyce Royal Scots.
Andrew Boyce name appears on the Glengarnock Steel Works memorial.
I have searched and searched and searched for these 2 men but alas they seem to want to stay out in the cold. Can you help me bring them in from the cold. They may have a link to Dalry or Beith.
Hope someone out there can put some egg on my face and many other expert researchers.
Kevin |
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suzebain
Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 39
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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What information do you have? Do you want/have you found them on the 1901 census? There is an Andrew Boyce, age 4, at Dalry.
Also, John Barbour is commemorated in Kilbirnie Auld Kirk.
Apologies if you already have this info.
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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I spent half an hour checking all my usual resources CWGC search, SNWM, Geoff's search engine and Ancestry and came up with zilch, sorry.
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KevinStoke .
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks S's much appeciated, I cannot find a person in the Auld Kirk who knows about the Barbour even the minister doesnt have a clue, does anyone have a clue how I turn a 4 year old in Dalry into a soldier, I am so close but yet so far.
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David McNay Administrator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 11425 Location: Lanarkshire, Scotland
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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KevinStoke wrote: | does anyone have a clue how I turn a 4 year old in Dalry into a soldier, I am so close but yet so far.
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Wait for the 1911 census?
(Not a particularly helpful suggestion, sorry...) |
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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Newspapers and school records come to mind.
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john burnett
Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Fife
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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suzebain wrote: | What information do you have? Do you want/have you found them on the 1901 census? There is an Andrew Boyce, age 4, at Dalry.
Also, John Barbour is commemorated in Kilbirnie Auld Kirk.
Apologies if you already have this info.
Susan |
I had a look into the above Andrew Boyce. The father, Charles died on 22/3/1922 and the informant was son Andrew who was living at 18 New Single Row (?), Dalry,Ayrshire.
On 30/4/1923 the mother Janet ms Stevenson dies and again the informant is son Andrew. Andrew himself dies 12/1/1939 of chronic bronchitis.
Doubt if it is this one.
Have names been added after the rest? |
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David McNay Administrator
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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Kevin,
Please list what sources you have checked for these men, that will save us duplicating any effort which has come before.
David |
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KevinStoke .
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:42 am Post subject: |
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CWGC, SDGW, Ayrshire Roots (this covers the local newspaper, Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald), Edinburgh archives, (professional search by staff because of the BBC Radio Scotland article, they found 5 but couldn't find these 2).
John, the names are not add ons they are part of the main panels. The memorial was unveiled in 1922 but I cannot find any criteria or dates when the names had to be in by. |
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