The Nottinghamshire Guardian (30 December 1899), published part of a letter received by a Mr. CRINAGE of 212 Sherwood Street, Nottingham from his son (unnamed) who was serving with the field force at Ladysmith at the time. My problem is that I have several CRINAGE families alive at that time all in Nottingham. To try and identify the specific family involved, I checked the census records for that address in 1891 and 1901. In 1901 there was no CRINAGE family living at that address. In 1891, I could not find 212 Sherwood Street at all and there were no CRINAGEs in the rest of the houses in Sherwood Street. Does anyone know if there was a register of land owners or occupants of a specific address at the time. On checking the Anglo-Boer War site, I was able to find only one CRINAGE, namely William, who served in that war. How accurate are these records and am I safe in assuming that this is indeed the person referred to in the newspaper report. If this is the case, I have certainly identified the family. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Martyn Peart Australia

Hi Martyn If you check out Findmypast they have in the Chelsea Pensioner records Joseph CRINAGE b1869 Walter CRINAGE b1880 Walter Joseph CRINAGE b1880 William CRINAGE b1875 William CRINAGE b1876 All born Nottinghamshire I suspect both Walters and both Williams are the same man but would bear inspection Walter appears to be a bit of a bad lad and spent much of his time in clink Ancestry have two entries in the medal rolls An A CRINAGE and a W CRINAGE but on inspection they are both 4190 CRINAGE, the A appears to be an error by whoever made the roll out (its definately A on the page by but the next man was a W, perhaps missed a line) So the man in the 2nd Boer war appears to be the William above Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > The Nottinghamshire Guardian (30 December 1899), published part of a letter received by a Mr. > CRINAGE of 212 Sherwood Street, Nottingham from his son (unnamed) who was serving with the field > force at Ladysmith at the time. > > My problem is that I have several CRINAGE families alive at that time all in Nottingham. To try > and identify the specific family involved, I checked the census records for that address in 1891 > and 1901. In 1901 there was no CRINAGE family living at that address. In 1891, I could not find > 212 Sherwood Street at all and there were no CRINAGEs in the rest of the houses in Sherwood > Street. > > Does anyone know if there was a register of land owners or occupants of a specific address at the > time. > > On checking the Anglo-Boer War site, I was able to find only one CRINAGE, namely William, who > served in that war. How accurate are these records and am I safe in assuming that this is indeed > the person referred to in the newspaper report. If this is the case, I have certainly identified > the family. > > Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. > > Martyn Peart > Australia