LOL - if only Northumberland wasn't so far from Huntingdonshire!! :-) I also have brickwalls which cause me endless frustration - so it's always feels great to help someone take down one of theirs. Have you posted yours to the list? Or maybe they don't relate to Sussex? Lara On 22/06/2012 09:24, Graham Noyce wrote: > I have one or two problems Lara - can I take you to dinner sometime? > > Graham Noyce > St Ives Hunts > Mem No 9038 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf > Of Lara Holman > Sent: 22 June 2012 08:52 > To: Margaret Smith > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SFHG] HARVEY Harry James > > Hi Margaret, > I found a marriage for Harry on Family Search - transcribed below. You > probably ignored the entry in the GRO Index because it's so way out of > his original area. But, as you can see, there is a reason for that: > > 1895 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of St George > Hulme in the County of Manchester > No 451 > May 27th 1895 > Harry James HARVEY, 21, bachelor, Private 6th Dragoons, Hulme Barracks, > [son of] James HARVEY, millwright > Mabel Laura LOCKYER, 24, spinster, 11 King Street, [dau of] James > LOCKYER, seaman > Married in the Church of St George according to the Rites and Ceremonies > of the Established Church after Banns by me, Geo. C. Ranston M.A., Curate > [Both parties sign] > In the presence of us, John Smith, Martha Moss > > There is a service record (WO97/3003/1) available for him on FindMyPast > which seems to show that he bought himself out of the 6th Dragoons early > in 1896. > He gives his birthplace as Selmeston - which I notice is where his > baptism took place. > > By the 1901 Census Harry and Mabel are living in Scotland at 28 Lochend > Road West, Edinburgh. Harry is listed as Henry J and is now a railway > porter. Mabel says that she was born in Japan (and that agrees with an > entry for a Mabel Lockyer in 1891 in Manchester working as a servant and > saying that she was born in Yokahama, Japan). > They have a son, Frank J Harvey, aged 4, born Edinburgh. > > Harry is still in Edinburgh in 1911 - this time listed (at least on > Scotlands People anyway) as Harry J. > > Hope all this helps! > Regards > Lara > > On 21/06/2012 20:25, Margaret Smith wrote: >> Harry James HARVEY born 1874 in Alciston, Sussex, son of James and Harriet > HARVEY (nee WELLER). He's with his parents in the 1881 census in the Barley > Mow Inn in Alciston, and then he's a Plumber's Labourer in Eastbourne in the > 1891 census. Then he disappears, I can't find him in later censuses nor a > marriage or death registration, nor an immigration. Can anyone help? >> Thanks, Margaret Smith >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2180 / Virus Database: 2437/5084 - Release Date: 06/21/12 > > >

Just like to remind members that Mailing List queries do not have to be Sussex. Many of us live in Sussex with no Sussex ancestry. Judy Excell -------------------------------------------------- From: "Lara Holman" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 9:36 AM To: "Graham Noyce" <[email protected]> Cc: "Margaret Smith" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SFHG] HARVEY Harry James > LOL - if only Northumberland wasn't so far from Huntingdonshire!! :-) > I also have brickwalls which cause me endless frustration - so it's > always feels great to help someone take down one of theirs. > Have you posted yours to the list? Or maybe they don't relate to Sussex? > > Lara >