veklee Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 any ideas ? thanks barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamRev Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 (edited) Very odd handwriting - is there anything else in the same handwriting? Are you expecting a man's or woman's name? I read the first name as "Marjorie", and the second as "?eakins", but possibly "Jenkins". William Edited 5 April , 2017 by WilliamRev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 It is hard to decipher without any other writing by the same hand to compare it with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veklee Posted 5 April , 2017 Author Share Posted 5 April , 2017 this is the same person Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 Second name Meakins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veklee Posted 5 April , 2017 Author Share Posted 5 April , 2017 so is it majorie meakins /meakin this is in soldiers effects the soldier is leonard powell Clapham thanks barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 What age was Leonard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 6 minutes ago, veklee said: so is it majorie meakins /meakin Yes it looks like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veklee Posted 5 April , 2017 Author Share Posted 5 April , 2017 born 1880 Leicester served in the boer war Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 Do you know who the lady is? Could it be his mother [remarried] or common law wife? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 Marjorie Meakins? On the 1911 census, there's a probationer nurse of that name at Hither Green Hospital, Lewisham, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veklee Posted 5 April , 2017 Author Share Posted 5 April , 2017 can u see leonard p Clapham on the 1911 census ? I'm sure in the distant past ive found him but changed computer his mother was living in Swindon in 1911 thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IPT Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 Boarding at 20 Grantham St, Lincoln, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 Did not find him 1911 census. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 5 April , 2017 Share Posted 5 April , 2017 Did he survive the war? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veklee Posted 6 April , 2017 Author Share Posted 6 April , 2017 killed 1st july thanks everyone barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veklee Posted 6 April , 2017 Author Share Posted 6 April , 2017 10 hours ago, IPT said: Boarding at 20 Grantham St, Lincoln, I think. well done that man thanks barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 6 April , 2017 Share Posted 6 April , 2017 (edited) I don't seem able to find him CWGC with a death date of 1st July. What regiment was he with? Edited 6 April , 2017 by johnboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan24 Posted 6 April , 2017 Share Posted 6 April , 2017 MIC shows a Leonard P Clapham 3/3536 Yorkshire Light Infantry. Looks like a special reservist. Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan24 Posted 6 April , 2017 Share Posted 6 April , 2017 (edited) 59 minutes ago, johnboy said: I don't seem able to find him CWGC with a death date of 1st July. What regiment was he with? try this http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/760174/CLAPHAM, LEONARD POWELL Edited 6 April , 2017 by Alan24 broken link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 6 April , 2017 Share Posted 6 April , 2017 Thanks. Found him. Some of his service record from 1900 to 1912 is on FMP. No mention of Marjorie. Possible marriage to Beatrice Bisset in 1911. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veklee Posted 6 April , 2017 Author Share Posted 6 April , 2017 hi johnboy if he had married wouldnt it b on his service papers ? he gives an address of 137 winn st Lincoln for his place after discharge but this does not appear as this on census 1911 I wondered if Marjorie might be an born out of wedlock or is his girlfriend but I think there is one girl born 1910. I ve had his qsa for years and just got the bwm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 6 April , 2017 Share Posted 6 April , 2017 The effects records were paid out on the back of a will so he could have left it anyone he wished, not specifically a relative. Usually with a relative there would be a prefix given - Mo (mother), Wid (widow) etc. His will is available but it may not add much (the amount of detail in them, is variable) - https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/ShoppingBasket/Add/451182?isGrantSearch=False&surname=clapham&yearOfDeath=1916&page=1&sort=Surname&sortDir=ASC&advancedSearch=False Marriages etc aren't always shown in surviving records as many are far from complete. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnboy Posted 6 April , 2017 Share Posted 6 April , 2017 If he married after 1912 it would not be on service record , unless you have a service record for him after then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss002d6252 Posted 6 April , 2017 Share Posted 6 April , 2017 Between 1910 and 1916 there are only 2 apparent marriages for a Leonard Clapham - neither of them to a Marjorie. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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