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We want to say a big thank you to our readers, who put thousands of historic records online in our third annual Transcription Tuesday event - including transcribing an entire book of rail staff records

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Stuart Thresher's Armchair General is the perfect book for military history lovers, telling the story of a key battle in Britain's history for each day of the year. We've got one copy to give away - just answer this question for your chance to win

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How Jewish am I? Our editor compares DNA test results
DNA testing has transformed genealogy research - but how far can you trust the results? Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine's Sarah Williams tries out the different brands - and explores what they mean for her family history

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Members of Tamlyn family missing from 1891 census

I’m trying to trace the Tamlyn family in the 1891 census. The father (William Henry, b. 24 May 1855), mother (Elizabeth Mary, b. 25 Jan 1850), and 3 oldest children were present in the 1881 census.

However in the 1891 census, while the father, those 3 children and one of 3 younger children are present (at 3 Binford Place, Bridgwater, Somerset), the mother (Elizabeth Mary) together with Elizabeth Ethel (age 9, b. 6 Jan 1882) and Tryphena Marguerite (known as Daisy, age 0, b. 5 June 1890) are all missing.

The mother and the baby reappear in the family in the 1901 census and the 9-year-old in the 1911 one. I’ve searched extensively for the three of them in the 1891 census, but without success. I’ve tried all the suggestions in the very useful article by Sarah Williams in the Feb 2019 issue of WDYTYA? Magazine, including using alternative databases, lots of possible name variations, numerous wildcard combinations, using initials only (in case they were in hospital), etc.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what I could try next or where they might have been on 5 April 1891?

Mark49

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Croix de Guerre

A descendant of mine, Charles Hardwicke, was a surgeon with the French Red Cross between 1915 and 1918. 

He served in France and then Macedonia with French Colonial troops. 

In a newspaper article he says he was awarded the Croix de Guerre for personally supervising the evacuation of over 150 badly injured men under heavy shell and machine gun fire. 

I can't find any reference in the London Gazette or elsewhere online. Can anyone point me in the right direction please, are there records available to search in France?

Laneside

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Ernest James Kenward Lovelock - Different Names

Ernest James Kenward Lovelock was born 3 Feb 1900. On the 1901 census he is listed as Ernest Kenward aged 3 and relationship stated he was a cousin born in the St Luke's parish of London. The head of the family is Henry William Lovelock married to Harriet Lovelock (nee Clegg). 

However, on the 1911 census he is listed as Edward Lovelock age 11 born in the St Luke's parish and listed as the son of Henry and Harriet Lovelock. 

His military records state he enlisted in 1918 aged 18 (making birth year as 1900) and the next of kin is stated as Henry Lovelock - father.

Can anyone help with solving this enigma regarding Ernest please?

JasonB

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