London burials, Red Cross volunteers and Irish military pensions and medals

The first FindmyPast Friday in 2018 from FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk) has seen the release of the following collections:

Middlesex, Brompton Cemetery Records

Search through more than 645,000 records from one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. 'Middlesex, Brompton Cemetery Records' consists of transcripts and images of original documents held at the National Archives in Kew. In many cases, you will find more than one result for your ancestor – a burial register entry and a grave purchase record. Transcripts may reveal a combination of your ancestor's death year, age at death, burial date, burial place and residence. Images may reveal additional details such as the cost of the grave, the owner of the gravesite, who paid for the burial, whether a private or common grave, and your ancestor's occupation.


Greater London Burial Index

Over 19,000 new records covering Clerkenwell in central London have been added to the Greater London Burials Index. The Index contains over 1.6 million names from more than 300 Anglican and non-conformist parishes in the Greater London area.


England, Cheshire School Records, 1782-1950

Were your ancestor's educated in the English county of Cheshire? Search over 423,000 records covering more than 120 schools across the county in this collection of records from FamilySearch.


British Army, British Red Cross Society Volunteers 1914-1918

Find out if your ancestor volunteered for the British Red Cross Society during World War 1. Following the start of the 'Great War' in 1914, the British Red Cross joined forces with the Order of St. John Ambulance to form the Joint War committee and Joint War Organisation. They pooled resources and formed Voluntary Aid Detachments (or VADs) with members trained in First Aid, Nursing, Cookery, Hygiene and Sanitation. These detachments all worked under the protection of the Red Cross, working in hospitals, rest stations, work parties and supply centres.


Mississippi, Tippah County Records 1836-1923 Image Browse

Browse through more than 115 records related to deeds, chattel deeds (personal property), and probate case files from Mississippi's Tippah County Courthouse.


Ireland Military Pensions and Medals 1916-1922

Search over 52,000 records Pension and Medal records to find out whether your Irish ancestor served during the Easter Rising or the War of Independence. The collection covers members of the Óglaigh na hÉireann, National Army, Irish Republican Army, Irish Volunteers, Irish Citizen Army, or Cumann na mBan.


For further details and collection links visit https://blog.findmypast.co.uk/findmypast-friday-2522528536.html.

Chris

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British Red Cross WW1 volunteer records go online

The British Red Cross has commenced the upload of records for British volunteers in the First World War. From the site:

Over 90,000 people volunteered for the British Red Cross at home and overseas during the war.
Search for your family’s personnel records, and discover what Red Cross volunteers were doing in your local area 100 years ago.

The personnel records for surnames starting with A and B are currently available. Volunteers are updating the site with more names every few weeks.

For further details visit http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War

(With thanks to Emma Jolly via Facebook)

Chris

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Red Cross First World War POW records now online

A quick announcement to say that the International Red Cross has now added its ICRC Prisoners of the First World War records collection online at http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/.

Lots of good stuff there - I've just found a document on Ruhleben camp in Germany "Visit of Mr. Th. Aubert, S. Horneffer, captain Hjort, P. Nabholz, P. Bonifazi. M. de Muller, J.-B. Micheli to the camps for the Russian prisoners of war in Germany, in Bohemia and in Poland", although it's in French! Lots of individual records also - happy hunting.

And a record for my civilian great uncle John Brownlee Paton who was interned at Ruhleben in 1916:

Lots still to explore....!

Chris

Now available for UK research is the new second edition of the best selling Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians, whilst my new book British and Irish Newspapers is also now out. And please consider purchasing the great new version of Caledonia by The Libations at 79p via www.caledonia2014.com - all profits go to help fund Scottish foodbanks

Red Cross First World War POW cards to go online August

Peter Calver's latest Lost Cousins newsletter at www.lostcousins.com/newsletters/jun14news.htm carries news that the index cards currently being digitised by the International Prisoners-of-War Agency, set up by the Red Cross, will be available online in August of this year.

The agency's website notes that some 500,000 pages of lists and six million index cards index cards for both military POWs and civilian internees will be included. Looking forward to seeing if they might have anything on my civilian great uncle John Paton, who was interned at Ruhleben in Germany from 1916-1918.

The agency has not been accepting research requests for some time (five years) because of this project, so this should hopefully help when it makes an appearance.

The full story is available at http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/article/other/archives-first-world-war-2011-07-27.htm

UPDATE 13 SEP - above link now broken, but see http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/ for the database.

(With thanks to Peter)

Chris

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