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24 October, 2022

Mary Faulder married to David Johnston, Blacksmith in Allonby

Filed under: - 1837,1837-1911,Are We Related,Blaylock,England,Faulder,Genealogy,Parish Records,Scotland,Status: Update as Information Arises,Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , — David @ 12:38 pm

I received a somewhat brief comment from a researcher who was:

Looking into David Johnston marriage to Mary Faulder. David was Blacksmith 1871 census in Allonby Cumbria

Email comment sent in by Dwight Donaldson 23 April 2022 (UK Time, possibly 22 April in US)

Within my research into “Unlinked Faulders”, I had a number of Mary Faulders who could have been adults around 1871 in the Allonby area of Cumberland.

As so often is the case this did not turn out as straightforward as one might hope.

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18 May, 2020

On this day: 18 May 1918

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,Faulder,France,Honours,On This Day,Status: Complete,Uncategorized — Tags: , , — David @ 10:11 pm

“On the night of 18th May 1918, members of the St Omer Convoy were called out to evacuate patients after a bombing raid had hit a local ammunition dump.”

“First Military Medals awarded to the FANY” – FANY website [accessed 18 May 2020]

The FANY as they are almost always know were the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, a group of predominantly women with the possibly fanciful idea of combining their horsewomanship and first aid ability to be of service to the British military. They envisaged they could gallop out on to the battlefield to retrieve the wounded and carry them back to the lines where First Aid could be applied. In reality this romantic idea evolved rapidly in World War One into driving heavy motor ambulances – initially for the French and Belgians because the British wanted nothing to do with them.

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5 June, 2019

On this day – 75 Years Ago: D Day

Filed under: 1939-45 WW2,Biography,England,Faulder,France,On This Day,Status: Complete,Uncategorized,Willett — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — David @ 4:15 pm

My late mother, then Elizabeth Willett, was almost 14 in June 1944. In her memoirs she wrote of her memories of D-Day. She was away at boarding school in Sherborne, Dorset.

During the night of the 5th – 6th of June 1944, everyone in my house was woken by the staff and prefects to watch the gliders being towed over to Normandy at the start of D-Day.

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11 November, 2018

On this day 100 years ago: Armistice

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,Belgium,Biography,Faulder,France,Honours,Lendrum,Mesopotamia,On This Day,Petrie,Status: Complete,Steinthal,Willett,Williamson — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , — David @ 8:17 pm

One hundred years on it is hard to imagine the impact of the Armistice. I was too young to discuss it with any of my relatives who survived the war. I imagine amidst the celebrations there would have been a sad reckoning.
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26 April, 2018

On this Day 100 years ago: Harold Faulder; Killed in Action

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,Belgium,Biography,Faulder,On This Day,Status: Complete,Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , — David @ 12:03 am

On this day 100 years ago (26th April 1918) my Grandfather, Harold Faulder, climbed out of a trench near Ypres leading his company across no man’s land towards the German lines. He did not return and his body was never recovered.

A previous post had detailed his career. Today I am looking at what we know about the night of 25th/26th April and the early morning of 26th April 1918. (more…)

12 October, 2016

Are We Related: Faulder

Filed under: Are We Related,Faulder,Status: Update as Information Arises — David @ 3:29 pm

The purpose of this post is to collate comments of a “Are We Related .. to the Faulder family (as detailed on this blog)”. This is one of a group of pages collating “Are we related” type comments, which are intended to either:

  • document how we are in fact related, or
  • collate remarks about non-relations to act as a point of reference for other families which may, in this case, share the Faulder surname.

Where comments have been moved from another post I have inserted a reference to the original post. I have also inserted a summary and link to any work I have done on the suggested relationships.

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Are We Related: Index

Filed under: Are We Related,Faulder,Norman,Status: Update as Information Arises,Willett — David @ 3:27 pm

The one of the most common types of comment I get on this website is of the “are we related?” type. Sometimes we are, sometimes we’re not! If we are we can exchange research; if not we can at least be clear about how we are not related.

The purpose of these posts therefore is to try and collate such queries and either:

  • document how we are in fact related, or
  • collate remarks about non-relations to act as a point of reference for other families which whilst unrelated may still share a surname.

A status of “Unrelated”, of course, is subject to revision by further research and discoveries – usually of earlier ancestors.

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1 July, 2016

On this night 100 years ago (1 July 1916)

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,Biography,Faulder,France,On This Day,Status: Complete — Tags: , , , , , , , , — David @ 11:37 pm

On this night 100 years ago (1st July 1916), I believe my grandfather, 2nd Lt Harold Faulder, went into the trenches for the first time in front of Serre on the Somme.

Possibly it might be more correct to say the remains of the trenches; my belief is that his first time in the trenches was to recover the dead and wounded from the day’s fighting. (more…)

24 March, 2016

Research & Other Work Agenda

Filed under: 1861-65 ACW,1914-18 WW1,Clark,England,Faulder,France,Genealogy,Huguenots,Interweaved Families,Ireland,Lendrum,Migration,New Zealand,Religion,Research Note,Scotland,Stothart,Willett,Williamson,Woollen Industry — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — David @ 9:50 pm

Taking stock of questions to research, itches to scratch, and development work to do.

Contents

  1. Family Reconstructions
  2. Specific People
  3. Website Development

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1 September, 2014

Identifying FANYs in Newspaper Cutting

Filed under: 1914-18 WW1,Faulder,France,Honours,Photographs,Status: Update as Information Arises — Tags: , , — David @ 12:28 am

This post ties into the post about Evelyn Faulder’s Military Medal. Recent comments by Juliet Webster have prompted me to revisit this story. There is a press cutting in the family (from the Daily Mirror of 23 July 1918):

Cutting; Photo of MM Award Winners

Cutting; Photo of MM Award Winners

But who is who?

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