Lives of the First World War

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ID: 426287

Reference: WO372/2

Title: Medal Index Card

Description: Medal index cards were created by the Army Medal Office towards the end of the First World War. They record the medals that men and women who served in the First World War were entitled to claim.

UPP: GBM/MCI/0426617

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 7605337

Reference: bmd_births

Title: England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

Connected by: Gail34919

UPP: BMD/B/1874/4/AZ/000058/025

Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's uncle.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7605342

Reference: bmd_deaths

Title: England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription

Connected by: Gail34919

UPP: BMD/D/1957/3/AZ/000088/044

Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's uncle Henry Boucher.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7605526

Name: P306_ROCHESTER_ST_NICHOLAS_1624_1972/P306_01_11 Microfilm 129

Title: Medway Ancestors - Baptisms - Rochester St Nicholas of Myra - 1868-1950

Description: Digitalized records of the parish register of baptisms for St Nicholas of Myra Rochester, Kent. "NB only entries to the end of 1914 are digitized."

Connected by: Gail34919

URL: http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/query/results/?Mode=ShowImg&Img=/cityark/Scans/Ecclesiastical_Rochester_Archdeaconry_Area_Parishes/P306_ROCHESTER_ST_NICHOLAS_1624_1972/01_Incumbent_Registers_1624_1960/P306_01_11.html/00000199.jpg
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Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's uncle Henry Boucher. The record supplies the names of his parents, and his birthdate, along with the date and place of his christening.

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ID: 7605594

Name: WO 363

Title: Attestation Paper for Henry Boucher 15 August, 1915

Description: This is the page view (*not* transcription) of Henry Boucher's 1914 attestation paper available at Find My Past.

Connected by: Gail34919

URL: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbm%2fwo363-4%2f007265905%2f01965&parentid=gbm%2fwo363-4%2f7265905%2f148%2f1965&highlights=%22%22
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Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's uncle Henry Boucher.

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ID: 7605710

Reference: 1881gbc

Title: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription

Connected by: Gail34919

UPP: GBC/1881/0004424750

Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's great-uncle Henry Boucher. The Michael Saxton in the household is Henry's maternal uncle; his mother was born Elizabeth Mary Saxton.

Credit: © General Register Office

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ID: 7605725

Name: Class: RG11; Piece: 885; Folio: 14; Page: 22; GSU roll: 1341210

Title: 1881 England Census - Ancestry.co.uk

Description: This transcription provides the names of the people in the Boucher household on April 3rd, 1881.

Connected by: Gail34919

URL: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1881&h=8046481&ti=5538&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t1236952_p-1948254144_kpidz0q3d-1948254144z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid
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Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's uncle. The Michael Saxton living with and working for the family at this time is Henry Boucher's maternal uncle, the brother of Elizabeth Mary Boucher née Saxton.

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ID: 7605756

Name: Class: RG12; Piece: 656; Folio: 5; Page: 4; GSU roll: 6095766

Title: Page view of 1891 England Census

Description: This is a page view - *not* transcription - accessible through Ancestry.co.uk. "This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1891 Census for England. "

Connected by: Gail34919

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/6598/KENRG12_654_656-0347/17745154?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3duki1891%26h%3d17745154%26ti%3d5538%26indiv%3dtry%26gss%3dpt%26ssrc%3dpt_t1236952_p-1948254144_kpidz0q3d-1948254144z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&ssrc=pt_t1236952_p-1948254144_kpidz0q3d-1948254144z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&backlabel=ReturnRecord
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Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's uncle Henry Boucher.

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ID: 7605851

Name: Class: RG13; Piece: 723; Folio: 11; Page: 14

Title: Page view of 1901 England Census

Description: This is a page view, *not* a transcription, available from Ancestry.co.uk. "This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1901 Census for England."

Connected by: Gail34919

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/7814/KENRG13_721_723-0559/5401678?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3duki1901%26h%3d5401678%26ti%3d5538%26indiv%3dtry%26gss%3dpt%26ssrc%3dpt_t1236952_p-1948254144_kpidz0q3d-1948254144z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&ssrc=pt_t1236952_p-1948254144_kpidz0q3d-1948254144z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&backlabel=ReturnRecord
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Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's uncle Henry Boucher.

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ID: 7605919

Name: Microfilm MF 485 - P085_CHATHAM_ST_MARY_1568_1974/P085_01_033

Title: Medway Ancestors - Baptisms - St Mary the Virgin Chatham - October 1859

Description: This is a page view of the digital image of the parish register for baptisms at St Mary the Virgin Chatham, Kent, October 1859.

Connected by: Gail34919

URL: http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/query/results/?Mode=ShowImg&Img=/cityark/Scans/Ecclesiastical_Rochester_Archdeaconry_Area_Parishes/P085_CHATHAM_ST_MARY_1568_1974/01_INCUMBENT_REGISTERS_1568_1974/01_registers/P085_01_035.html/00040486.jpg
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Additional: This is the record for the christening of Henry Boucher's eldest sister Mary Ann Elizabeth Boucher, which also provides her birthdate, the names of her parents, and her father's occupation. It proves she existed. She died at age one, two days before the birth of her sister Elizabeth Ann Boucher, my husband's great-grandmother.

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ID: 7605979

Name: "England, Kent, Parish Registers, 1538-1911," Archives Office, Maidstone; FHL microfilm 001473681.

Title: Christening of William George Boucher

Description: This is a transcription at FamilySearch.org.

Connected by: Gail34919

URL: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJDK-B4HD
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Additional: This shows the christening of William George Boucher, the eldest brother of Henry Boucher. William George died at the age of three months. This proves his existence.

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ID: 7606411

Name: WO364; Piece: 313

Title: British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920

Description: his database contains service records of non-commissioned officers and other ranks who were discharged from the Army and claimed disability pensions for service in WWI. These were also men who did not re-enlist in the Army prior to World War II.

Connected by: Gail34919

URL: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1114/miuk1914a_083395-01959/148805?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dBritishArmy%26h%3d148805%26ti%3d5538%26indiv%3dtry%26gss%3dpt%26ssrc%3dpt_t1236952_p-1948254144_kpidz0q3d-1948254144z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&ssrc=pt_t1236952_p-1948254144_kpidz0q3d-1948254144z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&backlabel=ReturnRecord
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Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's brother Henry Boucher.

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ID: 7607234

Name: The London Gazette, 21 August 1914, page 6628

Reference: www.thegazette.co.uk

Title: Notice of Henry's retirement from Boucher Brothers - 14 August 1914

Description: "Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between William Boucher, Junior, George Boucher and Henry Boucher, carrying on business as Butchers and Contractors, at 194 and 210, High-street, Rochester in the county of Kent, under the style or firm of BOUCHER BROTHERS, has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the date hereof so far as concerns the said Henry Boucher, who retires from the said firm. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid respectively by the said William Boucher, Junior, and George Boucher, who will continue to carry on the said business in partnership under the style or firm of Boucher Brothers. -- Dated this 14th day of August, 1914." WILLIAM BOUCHER, JUN. GEORGE BOUCHER. HENRY BOUCHER. On August 25th, Henry enlisted in the Army Reserve. (King Edward's Horse). He would serve in France for nearly two years before being discharged for battle fatigue.

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Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's uncle Henry Boucher.

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ID: 7607731

Name: Principal Probate Registry, London, England

Reference: Ancestry.co.uk

Title: Calendar of the Grants of Probate & Letters of Administration

Description: "This collection contains summaries of the vast majority of probate cases in England and Wales between 1858-1966. It effectively forms an index to wills and probate records for this period."

Connected by: Gail34919

Additional: This matches what is known about my husband's maternal grandmother's uncle.

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ID: 7607735

Name: P153_GILLINGHAM_ST_MARY_MAGDALENE_1558_1986/P153_01_30

Title: Medway Ancestors - St Mary Magdelene Gillingham, Kent - Marriages 1856-1862

Description: Parish record of the marriage of William Boucher and Elizabeth Mary Saxton, the parents of Henry Boucher.

Connected by: Gail34919

URL: http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/query/results/?Mode=ShowImg&Img=/cityark/Scans/Ecclesiastical_Rochester_Archdeaconry_Area_Parishes/P153_GILLINGHAM_ST_MARY_MAGDALENE_1558_1986/01_Incumbent_Church_Registers_1558_1976/P153_01_30.html/00000061.jpg
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Additional: This marriage record is correct for the birth dates of subsequent children and for the parent names which appear on their christening records.

Source information

ID: 8882349

Reference: gbm_silver_war_bad1914_18

Title: Silver War Badge Roll Transcription

Connected by: Keith1947

UPP: GBM/SILVERWAR/BADGES/3390

Credit: © The National Archives

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ID: 8882350

Reference: gbm_wo363-4

Title: British Army Service Records 1914-1920 Transcription

Connected by: Keith1947

UPP: GBM/WO363-4/7265905/148/1965

Credit: © The National Archives

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