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Discussion in Genealogy Forum started by bill thomason, Sep 18, 2017
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bill thomason
Hi,can anybody help with this address 38 Lower Harre?? Fields,W.Hamp??(1890s) U.K. I am assuming it is west Hampshire,u.k.

Thanks all.

Bill Thomason.

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EileenB
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Hi Bill - where did you get the address from? Is it on a census? It might be easier to decipher if I could see the original.
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bill thomason
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Hi Bill - where did you get the address from? Is it on a census? It might be easier to decipher if I could see the original.
Hi,EileenB,it`s from what`s left of a WW1 British Army attestation form,dated 1915,looks like it`s been burnt at some stage and edges are missing,sent to me recently from a Cousin in Australia,It`s for David Thomason b1896 soldier number 172621.

There should be a link to my website with this reply.

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EileenB
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Hi,EileenB,it`s from what`s left of a WW1 British Army attestation form,dated 1915,looks like it`s been burnt at some stage and edges are missing,sent to me recently from a Cousin in Australia,It`s for more ...
David Thomason b1896 soldier number 172621. There should be a link to my website with this reply
I have looked at David Thomason's army records on Findmypast and his home address is 38 Lower Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. That was his address for a period of leave from 28.3.19 to 25.4.19. He was also discharged to that address on 9.7.19. It says that he had a 30% disability and was awarded a pension of 8/3 (8 shillings and 3 pence), presumably per week, from 10.7.19 to be reviewed after 26 weeks. There are other pages but they are very faded.
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bill thomason
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I have looked at David Thomason's army records on Findmypast and his home address is 38 Lower Horseley Fields, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. That was his address for a period of leave from 28.3.19 more ...
to 25.4.19. He was also discharged to that address on 9.7.19. It says that he had a 30% disability and was awarded a pension of 8/3 (8 shillings and 3 pence), presumably per week, from 10.7.19 to be reviewed after 26 weeks. There are other pages but they are very faded
Hi again,that seems to be the one,lots of my near & distant ancestors were from Wolverhampton & surrounding districts.especially Willenhall,which was the centre of the universe for lock & key making,as was their trades.

Thanks again EileenB,take care,Bill.

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EileenB
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Hi again,that seems to be the one,lots of my near & distant ancestors were from Wolverhampton & surrounding districts.especially Willenhall,which was the centre of the universe for lock & key making,as more ...
was their trades. Thanks again EileenB,take care,Bill
Good to know that the info fitted in with your family history.
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Robesur
Hampshire is a county in southern England but this is not usually split into West and presumably East, neither is there any village or town in the information that you have given, unless that was Fields, but there is no place that I can see within Hampshire of that name or similar. It would assist if you can give us a persons name who you think may have lived there.

I do think though that instead of West Hampshire you are referring to possibly West Ham which was a place then in the County of Essex just to the North East of London and now included as part of London. I can see that there was a Lower Road in West Ham with a house number 38 in both the 1891 and 1901 census.

There were two families at that address in both census in 1891 there were families headed by an Arthur J Boardman and a John E Dodge and in 1901 a William E Chaplin and a John Mason. Could that address help you?