Alfred Price Project

My Great Grandad was called Alfred George Frederick Price. He was born in Stratford in 1874 and seems to have lead a very full life.
I never met him but I am very interested in his life story so I have decided to go all out to research everything I possibly can about him.

 

I know he was in the Army.
The Essex Regt for many years, serving in India and south Africa. He was involved in the Boer war and later fought  in WW1 after joining the Canadian C.E.F.
I know, don't ask...I have no idea how he came to join the C.E.F. that's one more thing to research.
He lived in Essex, Kent and of course Canada at some point.

Several years ago I was lucky enough to get hold of his C.E.F. attestation papers sent to me by the Canadian Archive..
I  have his wax army discharge papers from the Essex Regt. (1906)

I also have a couple of very very tatty photos that seem to have been taken in India. So I'm assuming its the 1st Batt Essex Regt in Bangalore.

This photo was recieved in two parts. It has been laid on a scanner to try to make one good picture..
As you can tell I haven't had the time to photo shop it yet. But I'm hoping to get rid of that crease at some point. 

Any info about this second picture would be great as I am only assuming its India.
Please comment below if you can help.

Wikitree.

 After doing a family history related search on Google recently I came across a reference to one of my ancestors on a site called Wikitree .

From the initial find I E-mailed the owner of the tree on that site asking if we were related. And it turns out, yes we are related. We are distant cousins with  common Great Great Grand parents.
This is only the second person that I have found researching the same related family. The other relative that I am in contact with I have been sharing information with for the last ten years.
I am hoping that they may have information that they can share to further my search and in return I hope I can help to grow their tree.

On the grave photo front I have not been able to get to our local church to photograph any graves as the weather has been against me.
Its always in the back of my mind that this is what I need to do so I am hoping to get there as soon as the weather breaks.

Gravestonephotos.com

 Gravestone Photographic Resource

Well after a short wait my Gravestone photo volunteer pack has arrived.

It consists of: 

1 x GPR Volunteer  CD

1 x GPR ID Card

1 X Laminated Poster /  mouse mat

1 x Access Details Card
2 x Return Labels
1 x Welcome Letter

The site seems to be well put together although there are some bugs. For example I have tried several times to send a message to the site owner but it just gets deleted as spam before sending...very annoying

Also after looking around the volunteer section of the website there seems to be one very important thing missing.

There is no members forum area, this would be a great benefit to new members,  as they get used to the site, uploading, photographing etc. Questions can be asked of other members this would save asking  the site owner.

I have added the name of our local church burial ground that I intend to photograph as soon as the rain stops I will spring into action.

Watch this space for a review of how easy it is to upload pictures. Although there is the option of sending the pictures direct on a CD or Flash Drive.

Other Family History research has slowed down as I am trying to index my research into a box file as well as in to a folder for storage on a Flash Drive.


The search Continues.

sources etc

I am thinking that I should start noting sources more closely.
Up until now most of the information that I have found has been via census returns, however just recently I have been getting much more information from Online church inscriptions as well as newspaper reports that have given me home addresses that I couldn't get from census returns as they were lived in in between decades.
I now have a lot of random information about my ancestors that I can see will either cause me some confusion in the future or to anyone reading my findings in the future.
After watching several great videos produced by Ancestry and featuring Crista Cowen I have realized that I should be going back over my findings and citing sources before I go any further.

It might be blindingly obvious to me where I got the information but to anyone else..............

The Ancestry videos are available via You tube or most Podcast players, and are definitely worth a look.

On the research front I have found some very distant uncles (Weston) in Kent c.1755. Now comes the search for their children etc.