I seem to be running out of wedding photos already! I’m sure I must have a lot more that need scanning. Instead I thought I’d show a photo of St Peter and St Paul’s, Fareham which I visited back in 2005 with my husband.
This is the church in which William St Clair Cole and Blanche Elizabeth Young got married on December 23rd 1880. It was witnessed by Mansel Young and Grace Amy Young, the father and sister of Blanche.
I love this black and white photograph of my father, Peter Mansel Young, enjoying a Coronation party in 1953.
My father is standing on the back row, fourth from the left. Some of the children seem to be wearing fancy dress and most of them are wearing striped hats of unusual shapes.
Service record for George Benger – ADM/188/23 Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen’s Services
Names in full – George Benger
Date of Birth 7 May 1838
Place of Birth St Thomas, Portsmouth
Personal Description:
1) Ships served in – Duke of Wellington
Ships’ Books List 2 No. 3
Rating Bandsmen
Good Conduct Badges worn 3
Period of Service 1 Jan 1873 to 13 Oct 1873
Character V Good
2) Ships served in – Active
Ships’ Books List 5 No. 224
Rating Bandsmen
Good Conduct Badges worn 3
Period of Service 14 Oct 1873 to 14 Oct 1874
Character V Good
If Discharged. Whither and for what cause –
CS Martin. pass to England – Invalided
To do – find out more about Good Conduct badges and records and see if I can find a record of his injury.
I have some Irish ancestors and have largely ignored them as Irish records confuse me. However, I was having a look at a document yesterday and found a name I hadn’t added into my family tree.
I had a google of her name and came across the following record from a database of headstones at Faithlegg Cemetery, Cheekpoint, Co. Waterford. The names and location seem to match so I am going to assume it relates to my family. I hardly ever find burial or cemetery records so I was very pleased to find it was legible and had been transcribed after so many years.
No 73
Sacred | To The Memory of | MARY CATHERINE | wife of Commander | M. YOUNG RN. | who departed this life | the 31st of July 1836. | at Dunmore East aged 42. | and her mother | MARY JOSEPH WERTZ | Wife of Lieut. Colonel | McDERMOTT | of the 3rd Irish Brigade who | departed this life | 18th April | 1850 aged 75 | also MATHEW HANDOCK | 3rd son of Commander M. YOUNG RN. | who departed this life the | 8th October 1854 aged 31. | “May They Rest in Peace. Amen”.
It must have been a large plot to accommodate 3 people. Wonder why she wasn’t buried with her husband? Wonder why their son had a different surname or is it an unusual middle name?
I love this photograph taken on the 7th October 1902 showing Alfred Benjamin Hacker and his new wife Elizabeth Hunt.
They got married at St Peter ad Vincula, the parish church of Broad Hinton, Wiltshire. For much of his life he was a master baker in the area, later joining the GWR as a plasterer in Swindon. They had 10 children, one of which was my maternal grandmother.
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Tagged Broad Hinton, Hacker, Hunt, wedding, Wedding Wednesday, Wiltshire
I’ve been doing some further research regarding Blanche Elizabeth Young (1856-1891) who was approved as a candidate at the Royal Naval Female School, Isleworth in 1868 and was there until at least 1871.
According to TNA catalogue I found that the Local Studies Library at Hounslow held the following record:
Royal Naval Female School, Isleworth
GB/NNAF/C2823
1868-1875: ledger
I contacted them to see if it held any relevant information and received the following response:
…this is an isolated document that at some point became separated from the school’s records, remained in Isleworth after the school had left the area, and found its way to us. The ledger records payments received by the school in date order, with a page every month summarising school expenditure during the month. Entries are made in columns under headings such as Subscriptions; School Fees; Donations; Chapel Fund etc. Only minimal information (rank or title, initials, surname) for those paying money to the school is recorded in the ledger, against their payments.
I have paged through the period late-March 1868 – January 1870 to see what might be in it that could be of use to you.
Several pages for the summer of 1869 have been torn out and are missing – perhaps by the child who has pencilled the words ‘Roten book an’t it cock’ on a page for March 1869. Several other pages are torn and damaged, but not actually removed from the book.
I spotted a small number of ‘Young’ entries while I was paging through the book, none before the first date given below:
20 Feb [should be Jan. – two pages have been described as February but are found in the middle of an otherwise sequentially correct January date sequence] 1869: R M Young; Annual Subscription; £1/1/0.
17 April 1869; Miss Young; School Fees; £4/15/0 [I take the name given here to be a reference to the pupil not the fee payer]
1 October 1869; Miss Young; School Fees; £7/15/0
7 January 1870; Lady Young; Annual Subscription; £1/0/0
19 January 1870; Misses (plural this time)Young; School Fees; £7/15/0
I hope that the above will give you some idea of the potential usefulness or otherwise of this document. Reading through it all and looking for entries in the name ‘Young’ would certainly take me a couple of hours and our charge for such research on behalf of a remote enquirer is £27.00 per hour. I am sure that you understand how thinly staffed we are and that I have many other calls upon my time.
My understanding is that in 1976, when Philip Unwin wrote a history of The Royal Naval School, the school still had a substantial archive of old records. I cannot say whether it still has them and cherishes them, or whether they have now gone to a County Record Office. The School left Isleworth/St. Margarets during the blitz of 1940, after experiencing some bomb damage. It is now part of the Royal School, in the Farnham/Hazlemere area.
Definitely something to add to my ‘to do’ list!
